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Child Development and Pedagogy

1) Child Development (Primary School Child): Intelligence perspectives, individual differences, gender roles, heredity vs. environment, child-centered education, Piaget, Kohlberg, Vygotsky, and more.

2) Inclusive Education: Addressing children with learning difficulties, diverse learners, specially-abled learners.

3) Learning and Pedagogy: Children as problem solvers, cognition, learning processes, motivation, social context of learning.

Language-I

1) Language Comprehension: Reading unseen passages (prose/drama/poetry) with comprehension, inference, grammar questions.

2) Pedagogy of Language Development: Language skills, teaching materials, language acquisition, remedial teaching, principles of language teaching.

Language-II

1) Comprehension: Reading unseen passages (prose/literary/scientific) with grammar and comprehension questions.

2) Pedagogy of Language Development: Language acquisition, teaching materials, challenges in teaching, remedial teaching, grammar’s role in communication.

Mathematics

1) Numbers, geometry, shapes, division, multiplication, addition/subtraction, patterns, time, volume, data handling.

2)Teaching and learning methods, error analysis, remedial teaching, logical thinking, place of mathematics in curriculum.

Environmental Studies (EVS)

Studies (EVS)1) Family, water, food, shelter, travel, things we make and do.

2) Pedagogical Issues: Activities, teaching aids, practical work, discussion, concept and scope of EVS, relation to Science & Social Science, integrated EVS approach.

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Important Topics

Child Development and Pedagogy

1) Child Development (Elementary School Child): Understanding learner diversity (language, caste, gender, religion), principles of child development, heredity and environment, socialization processes, continuous and comprehensive evaluation, intelligence theories, gender roles, Piaget, Kohlberg, Vygotsky.

2) Inclusive Education: Addressing diverse learners, specially-abled, talented, or children with learning difficulties.

3) Learning and Pedagogy: How children think and learn, factors influencing learning, alternative learning conceptions, problem-solving abilities, cognition, motivation.

Language-I

1) Language Comprehension: Reading unseen passages (prose, drama, poem) with questions on comprehension, grammar, and verbal ability.

2) Pedagogy of Language Development: Language acquisition, teaching principles, challenges in diverse classrooms, listening and speaking skills, remedial teaching, evaluating language proficiency.

Language-II

1) Comprehension: Reading unseen prose passages with questions on grammar, comprehension, and verbal ability.

2) Pedagogy of Language Development: Teaching principles, challenges in diverse classrooms, role of grammar in communication, evaluating language skills, remedial teaching, use of multilingual resources.

Mathematics & Science

(i) Mathematics

1) Content: Number system, shapes, symmetry, construction, algebra, ratio and proportion, fractions, geometry, mensuration, data handling.

2) Pedagogical Issues: Logical thinking, challenges in teaching mathematics, place in curriculum, evaluation, community mathematics, remedial teaching.

(ii) Science

1) Content: Food sources, materials, electric circuits, living world, natural resources, phenomena.

2) Pedagogical Issues: Nature of science, innovative approaches, experiments, integrated learning, evaluation, understanding science, remedial teaching.

Social Studies/Social Sciences

I. History: Early societies, first cities, empires, colonialism, nationalist movement, India post-independence.

II. Geography: Earth, environment, resources, agriculture, human environment, air, water.

III. Social and Political Life: Government, democracy, local government, gender, constitution, social justice, parliamentary system.

2) Pedagogical Issues: Nature of social science, inquiry-based learning, critical thinking, problems in teaching, use of primary/secondary sources, evaluation methods, project work.