Child Development and Pedagogy Syllabus

• Reading unseen passages- two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension
• Inference
• Grammar
• Verbal Ability

Pedagogy of Language Development

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

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

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

• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, “impairment,‟ etc.
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, and Special-Abled Learners
• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds ,including disadvantaged and deprived

• Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s “errors‟ as significant steps in the learning process.
• How children think and learn; how and why children„ fail‟ to achieve success in school performance.
• Factors contributing to learning-personal & environmental
• Child as a problem solve rand a “scientific investigator‟
• Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.
• Cognition & Emotions
• Motivation and learning

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

Pedagogical Issues  (10 Questions)

• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• Nature of Mathematics/Logical Thinking
• Evaluation
• Remedial Teaching
• Problem of Teaching

• Materials of daily use
• The World of the Living
• Moving Things People and Ideas
• How things work
• Food
• Sources of food
• Components of food
• Cleaning food
• Materials
• Electric current and circuits
• Magnets
• Natural Phenomena
• Natural Resources

Pedagogical Issues (10 Questions)

• Nature & Structure of Sciences
• Innovation
• Text Material/Aids
• Evaluation – cognitive/psychomotor/affective
• Problems
• Remedial Teaching
• Natural Science/Aims & objectives
• Understanding & Appreciating Science
• Approaches/Integrated Approach
• Observation/Experiment/Discovery (Method of Science)

• 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 Empir
• 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

Geography 

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

Social & Political Life

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

Pedagogical Issues

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