আপার প্রাইমারি টেট সিলেবাস | WBSSC Upper Primary TET Syllabus

(For classes V to VIII)

1. Child Development and Pedagogy - 30 Questions

✤ Child Development (Elementary School Child) - 15 Questions

☞ Concept of development and its relationship with learning

☞ 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 

☞ Concepts of child-centered and progressive education

 ☞ Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence

☞ Multi-Dimensional Intelligence

☞ Language & Thought

☞ 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.

☞ 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.

✤ Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs - 5 Questions

☞ Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived.

☞ Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, 'impairment' etc. 

☞ Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners.

✤ 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.

☞ Child as a problem solver and a 'scientific investigator'

☞ Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children's 'errors' as significant steps in the learning process.

☞ Cognition & Emotions

☞ Motivation and learning

☞ Factors contributing to learning - personal & environmental omin

2. Language I - 30 Questions

✤ 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

☞ 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

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3. Language — II - 30 Questions

✤ Comprehension - 15 Questions

☞ Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability

✤ Pedagogy of Language Development - 15 Questions

☞ Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing

☞ Teaching learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource 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

☞ 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

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4. Mathematics and Science - 60 Questions

✤ Mathematics - 30 Questions

 ✪ Content - 20 Questions

      ■ 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) kom.in
• Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
• Symmetry: (reflection)
• Construction (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses) 

     ■ Mensuration

     ■ Data handling 

✪ Pedagogical issues 10 Questions

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

✤ Science - 30 Questions

✪ Content 20 Questions

      ■ Food

• Sources of food 
• Components of food
• Cleaning food

     ■ Materials

•    Materials of daily use

     ■ The World of the Living

     ■ Moving Things People and Ideas

     ■ How things work

• Electric current and circuits
• Magnets

     ■ Natural Phenomena

     ■ Natural Resources

✪ Pedagogical issues - 10 Questions

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

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5. Social Studies/Social Sciences - 60 Questions 

✪ Content-40 Questions

➤ 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 kolom.in
• Social Change
• Regional Cultures
• The Establishment of Company Power
• Rural Life and Society
• Colonialism and Tribal Societies
• The Revolt of 1857-58Women and reform
• Challenging the Caste System
• The Nationalist Movement
• India After Independence

➤ 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

➤ Social and 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 - 20 Questions

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