CTET 2018 Examination Pattern (Paper-2, Class 6 to 8, Elementary).
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Latest CTET 2018 Examination Syllabus (Paper-2, Class 6 to 8, Elementary).
1)- Child Development and Pedagogy.
a)- Child Development (Elementary School Child).
- 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.
b)- Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs.
- 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.
c)- Learning and Pedagogy.
- 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.
2)- Language 1.
a)- Language Comprehension.
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).
b)- Pedagogy of Language Development.
- 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.
3)- Language 2.
a)- Comprehension.
Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability.
b)- Pedagogy of Language Development.
- 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.
4)- Mathematics and Science.
4.1)- Mathematics.
a)- Number System.
- Knowing our Numbers.
- Playing with Numbers.
- Whole Numbers.
- Negative Numbers and Integers.
- Fractions.
b)- Algebra.
- Introduction to Algebra.
- Ratio and Proportion.
c)- Geometry.
- Basic geometrical ideas (2-D).
- Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D).
- Symmetry: (reflection).
- Construction (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses).
d)- Mensuration.
e)- Data handling.
f)- Pedagogical issues.
- Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking.
- Place of Mathematics in Curriculum.
- Language of Mathematics.
- Community Mathematics.
- Evaluation.
- Remedial Teaching.
- Problem of Teaching.
4.2)- Science.
a)- Food.
- Sources of food.
- Components of food.
- Cleaning food.
b)- Materials.
- Materials of daily use.
c)- The World of the Living.
d)- Moving Things People and Ideas.
e)- How things work.
- Electric current and circuits.
- Magnets.
f)- Natural Phenomena.
g)- Natural Resources.
h)- Pedagogical issues.
- Nature & Structure of Sciences.
- Natural Science/Aims & objectives.
- Understanding & Appreciating Science.
- Approaches/Integrated Approach.
- Observation/Experiment/Discovery (Method of Science).
- Innovation.
- Text Material/Aids.
- Evaluation – cognitive/psychomotor/affective.
- Problems.
- Remedial Teaching.
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5)- Social Studies/Social Sciences.
a)- 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.
b)- 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.
c)- 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.
d)- Pedagogical issues.
- 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.
Note: For detailed coverage of the CTET 2018 syllabus of classes I-VIII, please refer to NCERT textbooks. Visit Page no 1 for Latest CTET 2018 Exam Syllabus (Paper-1, class 1 to 5, Primary Stage).
