KVS TGT Pedagogy 2023: Important topics, preparation tips and last minute strategy

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Topics

Understanding the Learner

• Concept of growth, maturation, and development, principles and debates of development, development tasks, and challenges
• Domains of Development: Physical, Cognitive, Socio-emotional, Moral, etc., deviations in development and its implications.
• Understanding Adolescence: Needs, challenges, and implications for designing institutional support.
• Role of Primary and Secondary Socialization agencies. Ensuring Home school continuity.

Understanding Teaching Learning

• Theoretical perspectives on Learning -Behaviorism, Cognitivism, and Constructivism with special reference to their implications for
• Planning student activities, and,
• Creating learning spaces in the school.
• Planning and Organization of Teaching-Learning
• Concept of Syllabus and Curriculum, Overt and Hidden Curriculum, Principles of curriculum organization
• Competency-based Education, Experiential learning, etc.
• The role of the teacher
• The role of the learner
• Nature of the teacher-student relationship
• Choice of teaching methods
• Classroom environment
• Understanding of discipline, power, etc.
• Factors affecting learning and their implications for
• Designing classroom instructions,
• Instructional Plans: -Year Plan, Unit Plan, Lesson Plan
• Instructional material and resources
• Information and Communication Technology(ICT) for teaching-learning
• Evaluation: Purpose, types, and limitations. Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation, Characteristics of a good tool.
• Assessment of learning, for learning and as learning: Meaning, purpose, and considerations in planning each.
• Enhancing Teaching-Learning processes: Classroom Observation and Feedback, Reflections, and Dialogues as a means of constructivist teaching

Creating Conducive Learning Environment

• The concepts of Diversity, disability, and Inclusion, implications of disability as a social construct, types of disabilities-their identification and interventions
• Concept of School Mental Health, addressing the curative, preventive, and promotive dimensions of mental health for all students and staff. Provisioning for guidance and counseling.
• Developing Schools and communities as a learning resource.

School Organization and Leadership

• Leader as a reflective practitioner, team builder, initiator, coach, and mentor.
• Perspectives on School Leadership: instructional, distributed, and transformative Vision building, goal setting, and creating a School Development Plan
• Using School Processes and forums for strengthening teaching learning-Annual Calendar, time-tabling, parent-teacher forums, school assembly, teacher development forums, using achievement data for improving teaching-learning, School Self Assessment, and Improvement, Creating partnerships with community, industry and other neighboring schools and Higher Education Institutes — forming learning communities

Perspectives in Education

• NEP-2020: Curriculum and Pedagogy in Schools: Holistic & Integrated Learning; Equitable and Inclusive Education: Learning for All; Competency-based learning and Education.
• Guiding Principles for Child Rights, Protecting and provisioning for rights of children to a safe and secure school environment, Right of Children to Free and Compulsory
• Education Act, 2009,
• Historically studying the National Policies in education with special reference to school education;
• School Curriculum Principles: Perspective, Learning and Knowledge, Curricular Areas, School Stages, Pedagogy, and Assessment

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