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TS TET Telangana State Teacher Eligibility Test 2024 & 2025 CDP Child Development and Pedagogy Official Syllabus

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TS-TET 2024 and 2025 Telangana State Teacher Eligibility Test is conducted by the TS-TET cell of the SCERT, State Council Of Educational Research & Training – Telangana State Department Of School Education.

Telangana State Teacher Eligibility Test TS-TET 2024 and 2025 Paper-I-A – CDP Syllabus

The test items on Child Development & Pedagogy in TS-TET 2024 and 2025 Paper 1 will focus on Educational Psychology of teaching and learning relevant to the primary level.

Child Development and pedagogy Syllabus (30 MCQs – 30 Marks)

Development of Child

  • Development, Growth & Maturation – Concept & Nature
  • Principles of Development & their educational implications
  • 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 and Erikson
  • Individual differences – Intra & Inter Individual differences in the areas of Attitudes, Aptitude, Interest, Habits, Thinking (Divergent & Convergent), Intelligence and their Assessment
  • Development of Personality – Concept, Factors effecting development of Personality, Child Rearing Practices, Self-Concept
  • Adjustment, Behavioral problems, Defense Mechanisms, Mental Health
  • Methods and Approaches of Child Development – Introspection, Observation, Interview, Case study, Experimental, Rating Scales, Anecdotal Records, Questionnaire, Cross sectional and Longitudinal
  • Developmental tasks and Hazards

Understanding Learning

  • Concept, Nature of Learning – Input – Process – Outcome
  • Factors of Learning – Personal and Environmental
  • Approaches to Learning and their applicability – Behaviorism (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

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, Co-operative & Collaborative 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
  • Theory of Instruction – Bruner
  • 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, Play, Community, Technology
  • Class room Management: Role of student, teacher, Leadership style of teacher, Creation of non-threatening learning environment, Managing behavior problems, Guidance & Counseling, Child Abuse, 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.

* MagicExam note : Candidates for TSTET 2024 and 2025 Paper 1 are advised to be aware of the latest updates in the field of education in India – such as the National Education Policy NEP-2020; and also the usage of ICT in the Teaching & Learning processes.


Andhra Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test APTET 2024 and 2025 Paper-II-A – CDP Syllabus

The test items on Child Development & Pedagogy in TS-TET 2024 and 2025 Paper 2 will focus on Educational Psychology of teaching and learning relevant to the elementary level.

Child Development and pedagogy Syllabus (30 MCQs – 30 Marks)

Development of Child

  • Development, Growth & Maturation – Concept & Nature
  • Principles of development & their implications
  • 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 and Erikson
  • Individual differences – Intra & Inter Individual differences in the areas of Attitudes, Aptitude, Interest, Habits, Thinking (Divergent & Convergent), Intelligence and their Assessment
  • Development of Personality – Concept, Factors effecting development of Personality, Child Rearing Practices, Self-Concept
  • Adjustment, Behavioral problems, Defense Mechanisms, Mental Health
  • Methods and Approaches of Child Development – Introspection, Observation, Interview, Case study, Experimental. Anecdotal Records, Questionnaire, Rating Scales, Cross sectional and Longitudinal
  • Developmental tasks and Hazards

Understanding Learning

  • Concept, Nature of Learning – input – process – outcome
  • Factors of Learning – Personal and Environmental
  • Approaches to Learning and their applicability-Behaviorism (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

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, Co-operative & Collaborative 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
  • Theory of Instruction – Bruner
  • 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, Play,Community, Technology
  • Class room Management: Role of student, teacher, Leadership style of teacher, Creation of non-threatening learning environment, Managing behaviour problems, Guidance & Counselling, Child abuse, 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

* MagicExam note : Candidates for TSTET 2024 and 2025 Paper 2 are advised to be aware of the latest updates in the field of education in India – such as the National Education Policy NEP-2020; and also the usage of ICT in the Teaching & Learning processes.

Official TS-TET Website 2024 and 2025

All candidates should regularly visit the official Telangana TS-TET 2024 and 2025 website at : https://tstet.cgg.gov.in/ for the latest updates and official notifications.

Candidates should cross verify all information against the details available on the official website.


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