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.

 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.

 Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived

 Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.

 Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners

 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

 Reading unseen passages – two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive).

 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, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom

 Remedial Teaching

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

 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, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom

 Remedial Teaching

 Number System

 Knowing our Numbers

 Playing with Numbers

 Whole Numbers

 Negative Numbers and Integers

 Fractions

 Algebra

 Introduction to Algebra

 Ratio and Proportion

 Geometry

 Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)

 Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)

 Symmetry: (reflection)

 Construction (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)

 Mensuration

 Data handling

 Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking

 Place of Mathematics in Curriculum

 Language of Mathematics

 Community Mathematics

 Evaluation

 Remedial Teaching

 Problem of Teaching

 Food

 Sources of food

 Components of food

 Cleaning food

 Materials

 Materials of daily use

 The World of the Living

 Moving Things People and Ideas

 How things work

 Electric current and circuits

 Magnets

 Natural Phenomena

 Natural Resources

 Nature & Structure of Sciences

 Natural Science/Aims & objectives

 Understanding & Appreciating Science

 Approaches/Integrated Approach

 Observation/Experiment/Discovery (Method of Science)

 Innovation

 Text Material/Aids

 Evaluation – cognitive/psychomotor/affective

 Problems

 Remedial Teaching

History

 When, Where and How

 The Earliest Societies

 The First Farmers and Herders

 The First Cities

 Early States

 New Ideas

 The First Empire

 Contacts with Distant lands

 Political Developments

 Culture and Science

 New Kings and Kingdoms

 Sultans of Delhi

 Architecture

 Creation of an Empire

 Social Change

 Regional Cultures

 The Establishment of Company Power

 Rural Life and Society

Colonialism and Tribal Societies

 The Revolt of 1857-58

 Women and reform

 Challenging the Caste System

 The Nationalist Movement

 India After Independence

Geography

 Geography as a social study and as a science

 Planet: Earth in the solar system

 Globe

 Environment in its totality: natural and human environment

 Air

 Water

 Human Environment: settlement, transport and communication

 Resources: Types-Natural and Human

 Agriculture

Social and Political Life

 Diversity

 Government

 Local Government

 Making a Living

 Democracy

 State Government

 Understanding Media

 Unpacking Gender

 The Constitution

Parliamentary Government

 The Judiciary

 Social Justice and the Marginalised

 Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies

 Class Room Processes, activities and discourse

 Developing Critical thinking

 Enquiry/Empirical Evidence

 Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies

 Sources – Primary & Secondary

 Projects Work

 Evaluation