CTET December Notification 2024 Syllabus

The CTET First Paper Curriculum the year 2024

Number of Questions

Child Development and Pedagogy

(a) Child Development (Primary School Child)

• Concept of development and its relationship with learning
• Principles of the development of children
• Influence of Heredity & Environment
• Socialisation processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
• Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
• Concepts of child-centred 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
• Different forms amongst learners, acknowledging differences based on spoken language, socioeconomic status, caste society as a whole a particular faith, other.
• The variance among learning evaluation and educational assessment: the Perspective and Experience on School-Based Examination, Ongoing and Thorough The evaluation
• Generating appropriate queries to assess learners' readiness to improve their respective positions knowledge and thinking skills in the learning environment and to evaluate their development.

(b) The idea of a comprehensive education and understanding learners who have exceptional requirements

• connecting with learners who come from different backgrounds, including impoverished and challenged
• improving what is required of students who suffer from "limitation," difficulties with learning, etc.
• Making Care of Innovative, Skilled, and Particularly Able Student

(c) Learning and Pedagogy

• How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance.
• Understanding as a group action; children's educational methods; basic educational and instructional processes; as well as the social environment of education.
  Kid as a "academic researcher" along with problem solution
• The child as a "technological researcher" as well as problem-solving solution
• A variety of viewpoints on the way kids gain knowledge, seeing the "mistakes as key steps in their learning process.
• Cognition & Emotions
• Motivation and learning
• Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental

(a) Language Comprehension

Understanding unforeseen readings: two sections containing knowledge, deductive reasoning, rules of grammar, and capacity for speaking problems (a single prose life, one performing arts written content, or one discursive section).

(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
• 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, multimedia materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

(a) Comprehension: 

There are two unread written parts (artistic, scientific in nature, narratives, or argumentative) containing understanding, vocabulary, as well as communication skills problems.

(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
• 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, multimedia materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

(a) Content

• Geometry
• Shapes & Spatial Understanding
• Solids around Us
• Numbers
• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Division
• Measurement
• Weight
• Time
• Volume
• Data Handling
• Patterns
• Money

(b) Pedagogical issues

• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking: understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• Valuation through formal and informal methods
• Problems of Teaching
• Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
• Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching

Environmental Studies

(a) Content

• Family and Friends: Relationships, Work and Play, Animals and Plants
• Food
• Shelter
• Water
• Travel
• Things We Make and Do

(b) Pedagogical Issues

• Concept and scope of EVS
• Significance of EVS, integrated EVS
• Environmental Studies & Environmental Education
• Learning Principles
• Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
• Approaches of presenting concepts
• Activities
• Experimentation/Practical Work
• Discussion
• CCE
• Teaching material/Aids
• Problems

The CTET Second Paper Curriculum the year 2024

Number of Questions

(a) Child Development (Elementary School Child)

• Concept of development and its relationship with learning
• Principles of the development of children
• Influence of Heredity & Environment
• Socialisation processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
• Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
• Concepts of child-centred 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
• Different forms amongst learners, acknowledging differences based on spoken language, socioeconomic status, caste society as a whole a particular faith, other.
• The variance among learning evaluation and educational assessment: the Perspective and Experience on School-Based Examination, Ongoing and Thorough The evaluation
• Generating appropriate queries to assess learners' readiness to improve their respective positions knowledge and thinking skills in the learning environment and to evaluate their development.

(b) The idea of a comprehensive education and understanding learners who have exceptional requirements

• connecting with learners who come from different backgrounds, including impoverished and challenged
• improving what is required of students who suffer from "limitation," difficulties with learning, etc.
• Making Care of Innovative, Skilled, and Particularly Able Student

(c)  Learning and Pedagogy

• How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance.
• Understanding as a group action; children's educational methods; basic educational and instructional processes; as well as the social environment of education.
  Kid as a "academic researcher" along with problem solution
• A variety of viewpoints on the way kids gain knowledge, seeing the "mistakes as key steps in their learning process.
• Cognition & Emotions
• Motivation and learning
• Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental

(a) Language Comprehension: Reading unseen passages – two passages, one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, 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
• 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, multimedia materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

(a) Comprehension: Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions 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
• 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, multimedia materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

(a) Content

• 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)
• To Basic Structures in One and 3 Surfaces
• Symmetry: (reflection)
• Construction (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)
• Mensuration
• Data handling

(b) Pedagogical issues

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

(a) Content

• Food
• Materials
• The World of the Living
• Moving Things People and Ideas
• How things work
• Natural Phenomena
• Natural Resources

(b) 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

Social Studies/Social Sciences

• History
• Geography
• Social and Political Life
• Pedagogical issues