Subjects

Syllabus

Child Development and Pedagogy 

• CHILD DEVELOPMENT & LEARNING
• 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
• The 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; 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 the disadvantaged and deprived.
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners.
• LEARNING AND PEDAGOGY:
• 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 counseling: 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 & Emotions.
• Motivation and learning.
• Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental.

 Language 1: Critical English 

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 & 'WH' questions
• Question tags
• Prepositions
• Tense and time
• Phrasal verbs
• Gerunds & 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.
• 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 2: Bengali 

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.
• 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.
• 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.

 Mathematics 

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
• PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES IN MATHEMATICS
• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• NatureMathematicstics
• Methods of teaching mathematics
• Instructional material in mathematics
• Evaluation, concept of continuous and comprehensive evaluation. Problems in teaching mathematics
• Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching.
• Diagnostic and remedial teaching.

Environmental Studies 

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 to presenting concepts.
• Environmental studies and environmental education.
• Learning principles.
• Activities.
• 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, 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, impact of soil polluted, nation and its prevention.
• 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 to presenting concepts.
• Activities.

Subjects

Syllabus

Child Development and Pedagogy

CHILD DEVELOPMENT & LEARNING

• 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-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
• 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 & 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.

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 the disadvantaged and deprived.
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners.

LEARNING AND PEDAGOGY:

• 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 counseling: 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 & Emotions.
• Motivation and learning.
• Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental.

Language 1: English

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 & 'WH' questions
• Question tags
• Prepositions
• Tense and time
• Phrasal verbs
• Gerunds & 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.
• 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 2: Bengali

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.
• 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.
• 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,s, and disorders.
• Language Skills.
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
• Teaching- learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resource of the classroom.

 Mathematics 

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
• 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.

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  Problems in teaching mathematics
• Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching.
• Diagnostic and remedial teaching.

 Environmental Studies

A: 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.
• Approactos of presenting concepts.
• Environmental studies and environmental education.
• Learning principles.
• Activities.
• 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 environment, flood, and drought.
• Composition of air, causes and impact of air pollutionthe on the environment, greenhouse effect and global warming.
• Different types of soil, soil erosion, the impact of soil pollution and its prevention.
• 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.
• Approactos of presenting concepts.
• Activities.
• Experimentation/Practical Work.