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CTET Paper 2 Syllabus 2017

CTET Syllabus Paper 2: As Central Teachers Eligibility Test, generally known as CTET, are going to be held on 21st February this year. It is conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education every year in different states. Lakhs of students apply for CTET exam every year who want to set up their career in teaching fields. There are not many websites which provide complete information regarding CTET but here we have provided all info like CTET Syllabus 2017, CTET 2017 Exam Schedule, CTET Admit Card 2017 & CTET 2017 Result at one place related to it so that aspirants can clear their queries on a single website and not waste much time in searching for information on different sites.

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Before stepping ahead, we should keep in mind the little information regarding Central Teachers’ Eligibility Test (CTET). It is a national level written exam, conducted and executed by both central and state governments in India for selecting valuable teachers. CTET includes two papers, Paper I for Primary Stage (Class I to V) and Paper II for Upper Primary Stage (Class VI to VIII).

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#1. Child Development and Pedagogy 30 Questions

a) Child Development (Elementary School Child) 15 Questions

 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 (5 Questions)

 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 (10 Questions)

 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 I (30 Questions)

a) Language Comprehension (15 Questions)

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 (15 Questions)

 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 II

a) Comprehension (15 Questions)

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

b) Pedagogy of Language Development (15 Questions)

 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 & Science (60 Questions)

i) Mathematics

>>>Number System 

• Knowing our Numbers
• Playing with Numbers
• Whole Numbers
• Negative Numbers and Integers
• Fractions

>>>Algebra

• Introduction to Algebra
• Ratio & Proportion

>>>Geomatry

• Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)
• Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
• Symmetry: (reflection)
• Construction (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)

>>>Mensuration

>>>Data handling

b) Pedagogical issues 10 Questions

 Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
 Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
 Language of Mathematics
 Community Mathematics
 Evaluation
 Remedial Teaching
 Problem of Teaching

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