WB TGT-PGT English Literature

• Part 1: Child Development and Pedagogy
  • Principles of the development of children
  • Influence on Heredity and Environment
  • Socialization processes: Social world and 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 and 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
  • The distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
  • Formulating appropriate questions for assessing the readiness levels of learners; enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and assessing learner achievement
  • Concepts Of Inclusive Education And Understanding Children With Special Needs:
  • Concept of exceptional children and children with special needs (CWSN)
  • 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
  • Alternative concepts of learning in children
  • Cognition and emotions
  • Motivation and learning
  • Classroom management
  • Punishment and its legal implications, rights of a child.
  • Guidance and counselling: concept, nature and types.
  • 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 and Emotions.
  • Motivation and learning.
  • Factors contributing to learning – personal and environmental.

Language Comprehension

• Two passages, one from prose and the other from poetry with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and test of vocabulary.
• Determiners
• Subject-verb
• Concord
• Interrogatives
• Framing Yes/No and ‘WH’ questions
• Question tags
• Prepositions
• Tense and time
• Phrasal verbs
• Gerunds and Participle
• Auxiliary verbs

Pedagogy for Language Development

• Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms: language difficulties, errors and disorders.
• Introduction to English Phonology: vowels and consonants, syllable division.
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency in LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing).
• Teaching-learning materials.
• Strategies for teaching children with special needs (CWSN).
• 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.
• 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

Language Comprehension

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

• Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms: language difficulties, errors and disorders.
• Introduction to English Phonology: vowels and consonants, syllable division.
• Indian Social Problems – (i) Population Explosion; Poverty; Illiteracy; Unemployment. (ii) Communalism; Regionalism; Terrorism; and Insurgency. (iii) Corruption. (iv) Environmental Issues. (v) Problems of Weaker Sections – SC; ST; OBI; Minorities Children; Gender Justice and Women Related Issue.

Pedagogy

• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency in LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing).
• Teaching-learning materials.
• Strategies for teaching children with special needs (CWSN).
• 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.
• 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: Tex

Content

• Geometry
• Shapes, spatial understanding, solids, the perimeter of rectilinear figures, area of rectangles, practical problems, surface area and volume of solids (sphere, cube, rectangular, parallelepiped), practical problems.
• Measurement
• Numbers
• Arithmetic
• Fractions
• Weight
• Time
• Data handling
• Patterns
• Money
• Control Systems etc.

Pedagogical issues in Mathematics

• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• Nature of mathematics
• Methods of teaching mathematics
• Instructional material in mathematics
• Evaluation, the concept of continuous and comprehensive evaluation. Problems in teaching mathematics
• Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
• Diagnostic and remedial teaching

Knowledge of EVS

• Concept and scope of environmental studies
• Significance of environmental studies
• Integrated approach in environmental studies
• Scope and relation of environmental studies to science and social science
• Approaches of presenting concepts
• Environmental studies and environmental education
• Learning principles
• Discussion
• Health and Hygiene
• Shelters: Types of shelters, characteristics of animal shelters
• Types of vehicles used, railways, waterways and airways
• Water: Types of water resources, conservation of water resources, water pollution, cause and prevention of water pollution, the impact of water pollution on the environment, flood and drought
• Composition of air, causes and impact of air pollution on the environment, greenhouse effect and global warming
• Different types of soil, soil erosion, the impact of soil pollution and its prevention

Pedagogical Issues

• Concept and scope of EVS
• Significance of EVS and integrated EVS
• Environmental Studies and Environmental Education
• Learning Principles
• Scope and relation to Science and Social Science
• Approaches of presenting concepts
• Activities