CTET Paper 2 Syllabus 2024 PDF (Out) for Maths, Science, SST, Language, Child Development & Pedagogy

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Child Development:Elementary School Child

(15 Questions)

• Concept of development and its relationship with learning
• Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
• Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
• Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement
• Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
• Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.
• Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
• Language & Thought
• Cognition & Emotions
• Motivation and learning
• Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental
• Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice
• Principles of the development of children
• Influence of Heredity & Environment
• Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
• Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
• Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process.

Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs

(5 Questions)

• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, impairment etc.

Learning and Pedagogy

(10 Questions)

• How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance
• Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.

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Language Comprehension

(15 Questions)

Reading unseen passages – two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)

Pedagogy of Language Development

(15 Questions)

• Principles of language Teaching • Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool.
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
• Learning and acquisition
• Language Skills
• Teaching- learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching
• Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form

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Important Topics

Language Comprehension

(15 Questions)

• Reading unseen passages – two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)

Pedagogy of Language Development

(15 Questions)

• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of language Teaching • Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing

• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
• Language Skills
• Teaching- learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resource of the classroom

• Remedial Teaching
• Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form

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Mathematics

(30 Questions)

• Number System
• Knowing our Numbers
• Negative Numbers and Integers
• Fractions
• Playing with Numbers
• Whole Numbers
• Algebra
• Introduction to Algebra
• Ratio and Proportion
• Geometry
• Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)
• Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
• Mensuration
• Construction (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)

• Data handling
• Symmetry: (reflection)
• Pedagogical issues (10 Questions)
• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
• Community Mathematics
• Evaluation
• Remedial Teaching
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Language of Mathematics
• Problem of Teaching

Science

(30 Questions)

Content (20 Questions)

• Food- Sources of food, Components of food, Cleaning food
• How things work- Electric current and circuits, Magnets
• Natural Phenomena
• The World of the Living
• Moving Things: People and Ideas

• Natural Resources
• Materials- Materials of daily use
• Pedagogical issues (10 Questions)
• Nature & Structure of Sciences
• Natural Science/Aims & objectives
• Text Material/Aids
• Evaluation – cognitive/psychomotor/affective
• Problems
• Remedial Teaching
• Understanding & Appreciating Science
• Approaches/Integrated Approach
• Observation/Experiment/Discovery (Method of Science)
• Innovation

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Important Topics

Geography

• Geography as a social study and as a science
• Planet: Earth in the solar system
• Globe
• Environment in its totality: natural and human environment
• Air
• Water
• Human Environment: settlement, transport and communication
• Resources: Types-Natural and Human
• Agriculture

History

• When, Where and How
• The Earliest Societies
• The First Farmers and Herders
• The First Cities
• Early States
• New Ideas
• The First Empire
• Contacts with Distant lands
• Political Developments
• Culture and Science
• New Kings and Kingdoms
• Sultans of Delhi
• Architecture
• Creation of an Empire
• Social Change
• Regional Cultures
• The Establishment of Company Power
• Rural Life and Society
• Colonialism and Tribal Societies
• The Revolt of 1857-58
• Women and reform
• Challenging the Caste System
• The Nationalist Movement
• India After Independence

Pedagogical issues

• Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies
• Classroom Processes, activities and discourse
• Developing Critical thinking
• Enquiry/Empirical Evidence
• Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies
• Sources – Primary & Secondary
• Projects Work
• Evaluation

Social and Political Life

• Diversity
• Government
• Local Government
• Making a Living
• Democracy
• State Government Geography
• Understanding Media
• Unpacking Gender
• The Constitution
• Parliamentary Government
• The Judiciary
• Social Justice and the Marginalised