Primary TET Examination TET 1 Syllabus, Tripura TET Syllabus 2020-21

T-TET: PAPER-I

For Primary TET Examination (Classes I to V)

I. CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY: (30 MCQS)

(A). CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING:

 Growth, development and maturation - their relationship with learning. 

 Principles of development.

 Impact of heredity and environment on development - nature-nurture controversy.

 Socialization process of the child.

 Domains of development up to late childhood - physical, cognitive, emotional, social, moral and 

language.

 Theories of Piaget, Kohlberg, Carol, Chomsky and Rogers in relation to child development.

 Concept of child centric and activity based education.

 Individual differences - attitude, aptitude, interest and intelligence-their measurement.

 Theories of intelligence: Spearman, Guilford, Thurstone.

 Gender and education with special reference to child development.

 Mental health of the child - adjustment and behavioural problems during childhood.

 Understanding differences among the children based on language, caste, community, religion and 

gender.

 Distinction between assessment for learning and assessment of learning - school based 

assessment, continuous and comprehensive evaluation, perspective and practice.

 Preparation of appropriate tools for measuring learning outcome of the learners.

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(B) 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. 

 Concept of learning disability (LD), addressing the needs of children with learning disabilities. 

 Addressing the gifted, creative, specially abled learners (mentally retarded and physically 

challenged).

(C) LEARNING AND PEDAGOGY:

 Process of thinking and learning of children, causes of children’s failure to achieve success in 

school performance in respect of quality education. 

 Basic approaches to learning - process of teaching and learning, children’s strategies of learning, 

learning as social activity, social context of learning.

 Alternative concepts of learning in children - understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps 

in the learning process.

 Cognition and emotions: Concept and nature of cognition, basic emotions, characteristics of 

childhood emotionality. 

 Motivation and learning - factors contributing to learning - personal and environmental, influence

of motivation in learning.

 Classroom management - creation of non-threatening learning environment, managing 

behavioural problems in class room.

 Punishment and its legal implication, rights of a child.

 Guidance and counselling - concept, nature and types.

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II. LANGUAGE-I, ENGLISH: (30 MCQs)

A. LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION:

(i) Two passages, one from prose and the other from poetry, will be given with questions on 

comprehension, inference, grammar and test of vocabulary. (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, 

narrative or discursive.)

(ii) Test of grammatical knowledge on the following items:-

 Article

 Concord

 Interrogatives

 Framing Yes/No & 'WH' questions

 Question tags

 Prepositions

 Tense and time

 Determiners

 Phrasal verbs

 Gerunds & Participle

 Reflexive pronouns

 Linkers

 Auxiliary verbs

(iii) Vocabulary Test:

 Word formation from jumbled letters, antonyms and synonyms, affixes, idioms and phrases, 

formation of short sentences from jumbled words.

B. PEDAGOGY FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT:

 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 in oral 

and written form.

 Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms - language difficulties, errors and 

disorders.

 Introduction to English Phonology - vowels and consonants, syllable division, IPA, stress. 

 Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency in LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading and 

Writing).

 Teaching-learning materials: textbooks, multimedia materials, multilingual resources of the 

classroom.

 Strategies for teaching children with special needs (CWSN).

 Remedial teaching

III. LANGUAGE-II, BENGALI: (30 MCQs)

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IV. MATHEMATICS: (30 MCQs)

(A). CONTENT

 Geometry: Types of angels, measurement of angels, line, axis, reflection and symmetry.

 Shapes, spatial understanding, solids, perimeter of rectilinear figures, area of rectangles, practical 

problems, surface area and volume of solids (sphere, cube, rectangular, parallelepiped), practical 

problems.

 Measurement: Basic operations in solving problems involving length, weight, time, capacity and their 

standard units, relation between them.

 Numbers: Natural numbers, place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of natural 

numbers, factors and multiples, prime factors, lowest common multiple (LCM) and highest common 

factor (HCF), decimals and their operation on decimals.

 Arithmetic: Unitary method, ratio, proportion, percentage, average, profit and loss.

 Fractions: Concept of fraction, fraction of a measure such as metre, litre, gram, fractional parts of 

objects, equal fractions, operations on fraction, practical problems. 

(B). PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES IN MATHEMATICS

 Language of Mathematics.

 Community Mathematics.

 Nature of mathematics, understanding children’s thinking and reasoning, place of mathematics in 

curriculum, historical development of mathematics, great mathematicians and their contributions 

(Indian and World).

 Methods of teaching mathematics, inductive and deductive method, analytical and synthetic method, 

project method, laboratory method.

 Instructional material in mathematics, TLM in mathematics, mathematics laboratory, mathematical 

puzzle.

 Evaluation, concept of continuous and comprehensive evaluation. 

 Problems in teaching mathematics.

 Remedial teaching and error analysis

V. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: (30 MCQS)

(A). CONTENT

 Family and Friend: Relationships, duties of family members, nuclear and joint families, social 

abuse (child marriage, child labour, dowry system), rights and responsibilities in common places.

 Work and Play: different types of professions in our surroundings, effects of games and sports on 

health.

 Plants and Animals: World of plants and animals, parts of plants (leaves, flowers, types of root 

and stem, different kinds of fruit and seeds), germination, pollination, dispersal of seeds, plants in 

our society (sacred groves, flowers and festivals, vanamohatsav), photosynthesis, animals in 

different environments, movement and food habit, uses of animals, animal products, reserve 

forest, sanctuaries, tiger reserves, national parks. 

 Food: Different types of food, balanced diet and its importance, nutrients of food, nutrient 

deficiencies and related diseases.

 Health and Hygiene: External parts of body and their cleanliness, general understanding of 

internal parts of our body, causes of some common diseases (gastroenteritis, amoebiasis, anaemia, 

flurosis, malaria and dengue) and their prevention.

 Shelters: Types of shelters, characteristics of animal shelters, various types of houses and building 

materials.

 Travel: 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 environment, flood and drought.

 Air: Composition of air, causes and impact of air pollution on environment, green house effect 

and global warming.

 Soil: Different types of soil, soil erosion, impact of soil pollution and its prevention.

 Energy: Types of energy and its transformation from one to another, application of energy in daily 

life, various types of fuels, renewable and non-renewable resources of energy, conservation of 

energy. 

 Environmental Characteristics of Tripura: Location, climate, crops, clothes, village, districts, 

physical features, hills and plains, rivers, plants and animals, endangered and rare species, reserve 

forests, sanctuaries.

 Environmental Protection: Constitutional provision, role of individuals, local bodies and 

government in environmental protection, major environmental protection acts.

(B). PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

 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.

 Comprehensive and continuous evaluation.

 Teaching material-aids.

 Approaches of presenting concepts.

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