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July 5th, 2016, 10:59 AM
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| Re: APTET Key Paper 2
Andhra Pradesh School Education Department conducts Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) cum Teacher Recruitment Test (TRT) for the posts of Teachers.   Syllabus for Social Studies Paper 2 of Andhra Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test (APTET) Part – I General Knowledge and Current Affairs (Marks: 10) Part - II Child Development and Pedagogy (Marks: 30) 1. DEVELOPMENT OF CHILD - Development, Growth & Maturation – Concept & Nature - Principles of development - Factors influencing Development – Biological, Psychological, Sociological - Dimensions of Development and their interrelationships – Physical & Motor, Cognitive, Emotional, Social, Moral, Language relating to Infancy, early Childhood, late Child hood, Adolescence. - Understanding Development – Piaget, Kohlberg, Chomsky, Carl Rogers - Individual differences – Intra & Inter Individual differences in the areas of Attitudes, Aptitude, Interest, Habits, Intelligence and their Assessment - Development of Personality – Concept, Factors effecting development of Personality - Adjustment, Behavioural problems, Mental Health - Methods and Approaches of Child Development – Observation, Interview, Case study, Experimental, Cross sectional and Longitudinal - Developmental tasks and Hazards 2. UNDERSTANDING LEARNING - Concept, Nature of Learning – input – process – outcome - Factors of Learning – Personal and Environmental - Approaches to Learning and their applicability–Behaviourism (Skinner, Pavlov, Thorndike), Constructivism (Piaget, Vygotsky), Gestalt(Kohler, Koffka) and Observational (Bandura) - Dimensions of Learning – Cognitive, Affective and Performance - Motivation and Sustenance –its role in learning. - Memory & Forgetting - Transfer of Learning 3. PEDAGOGICAL CONCERNS - Teaching and its relationship with learning and learner - Learners in Contexts: Situating learner in the socio-political and cultural context - Children from diverse contexts–Children With Special Needs (CWSN), Inclusive Education - Understanding of pedagogic methods – Enquiry based learning, Project based learning, Survey, Observation and Activity based learning - Individual and Group learning: Issues and concerns with respect to organizing learning in class room like Study habits, Self learning and Learning to learn skills - Organizing learning in heterogeneous class room groups – Socio-economic background, Abilities and Interest - Paradigms of organizing Learning-Teacher centric, Subject centric and Learner centric - Teaching as Planned activity – Elements of Planning - Phases of Teaching – Pre active, Interactive and Post active - General and Subject related skills, competencies required in teaching and attributes of good facilitator - Learning resources – Self, Home, School, Community, Technology - Class room Management: Role of student, teacher, Leadership style of teacher, Creation of nonthreatening learning environment, Managing behaviour problems, Guidance & Counselling, Punishment and its legal implications, Rights of a child, Time Management. - Distinction between Assessment for Learning & Assessment of Learning, School based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation : Perspective & Practice - Understanding teaching & learning in the context of NCF, 2005 & Right To Education Act, 2009. |