WB Primary TET Syllabus

Section

No. of Question

Marks

Duration

Child Development and Pedagogy

30

30

2.5 hours

Language-I: English

30

30

Language-II: Bengali

30

30

Mathematics

30

30

Environmental Studies

30

30

Total

150

150

WB Primary TET Syllabus for Child Development and Pedagogy (30 MCQs)

Child Development and Learning

1. Concept of development and its relationship with learning
2. Principles of the development of children
3. Influence of Heredity & Environment
4. Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
5. Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
6. Concepts of child-centred and progressive education
7. Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
8. Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
9. Language & Thought
10. Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice
11. Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, 
    community, religion etc
12. The distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, 
    Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
13. 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.

1. Concept of exceptional children and children with special needs (CWSN).
2. Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived.
3. Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
4. Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners.

Learning and Pedagogy

1. Alternative concepts of learning in children
2. Cognition and emotions
3. Motivation and learning
4. Classroom management
5. Punishment and its legal implications, rights of a child.
6. Guidance and counselling: concept, nature and types.
7. How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance.
8. Basic processes of teaching and learning;
9. Children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.
10. Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
11. Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process.
12. Cognition & Emotions.
13. Motivation and learning.
14. Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental.

WB Primary TET Syllabus for Language 1: Critical English (30 MCQs)

Language Comprehension

1. Two passages, one from prose and the other from poetry with questions on comprehension, inference, 
   grammar and test of vocabulary.
2. Determiners
3. Subject-verb
4. Concord
5. Interrogatives
6. Framing Yes/No & ‘WH’ questions
7. Question tags
8. Prepositions
9. Tense and time
10. Phrasal verbs
11. Gerunds & Participle
12. Auxiliary verbs

Pedagogy for Language Development

1. Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms: language difficulties, errors and disorders.
2. Introduction to English Phonology: vowels and consonants, syllable division.
3. Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency in LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing).
4. Teaching-learning materials.
5. Strategies for teaching children with special needs (CWSN).
6. Remedial teaching.
7. Learning and acquisition.
8. Principles of language Teaching.
9. Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool.
10. A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form.
11. Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders.
12. Language Skills.
13. Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing.
14. Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resources of the classroom.

WB Primary TET Syllabus for Language 2: Bengali (30 MCQs)

Language Comprehension

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

1. Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms: language difficulties, errors and disorders.
2. Introduction to English Phonology: vowels and consonants, syllable division.
3. Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency in LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing).
4. Teaching-learning materials.
5. Strategies for teaching children with special needs (CWSN).
6. Remedial teaching.
7. Learning and acquisition.
8. Principles of language Teaching.
9. Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool.
10. A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form.
11. Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders.
12. Language Skills.
13. Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing.
14. Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resources of the classroom.

WB Primary TET Syllabus for Mathematics (30 MCQs)

1. Geometry
2. 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.
3. Measurement
4. Numbers
5. Arithmetic
6. Fractions
7. Weight
8. Time
9. Data handling
10. Patterns
11. Money
12. Pedagogical issues in Mathematics
13. Language of Mathematics
14. Community Mathematics
15. Nature of mathematics
16. Methods of teaching mathematics
17. Instructional material in mathematics
18. Evaluation, the concept of continuous and comprehensive evaluation. Problems in teaching mathematics
19. Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching.
20. Diagnostic and remedial teaching.

WB Primary TET Syllabus for Environmental Studies (30 MCQs)

Knowledge of EVS

1. Concept and scope of environmental studies
2. Significance of environmental studies.
3. Integrated approach in environmental studies
4. Scope and relation of environmental studies to science and social science.
5. Approaches of presenting concepts
6. Environmental studies and environmental education
7. Learning principles
8. Activities
9. Discussion
10. Health and Hygiene
11. Shelters: Types of shelters, characteristics of animal shelters
12. Types of vehicles used, railways, waterways and airways
13. 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.
14. Composition of air, causes and impact of air pollution on the environment, greenhouse effect and global warming.
15. Different types of soil, soil erosion, the impact of soil pollution and its prevention.
16. Pedagogical Issues
17. Concept and scope of EVS
18. Significance of EVS integrated EVS
19. Environmental Studies & Environmental Education
20. Learning Principles
21. Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
22. Approaches to presenting concepts
23. Activities