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Course Name :CTET Syllabus

1.CTET Paper 1 Syllabus 2025 (For Classes1 to 5)

1. Child Development & Pedagogy (for primary classes )
   • Concept of development and its relationship with learning
   • Principles of the development of children
   • Influence of heredity and environment
   • Socialization process
   • Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky theories
   • Concept of Inclusive education
   • Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds and needs
   • Concept of child-centered and progressive education
   • Construct of intelligence and multi – dimensional intelligence
   • Gender issues in social construct
   • Language and thought
   • Individual difference among learners
   • Cognition and emotion
   • Motivation and learning
   • National education policy 2020
   • Evaluation of learning
   • Evaluation of achievement and formation of question
   • Identifying and addressing disabled and learning disability children
   • Basic process of teaching and learning
   • Alternative conceptions of learning in children
   • Identifying and addressing the talented, creative specially-abled learners
   • Thinking and learning in children
   • Child : A problem solver and as a scientific investigator
2. CTET language -1 and language -2 syllabus (for paper -1) 
   • Unseen passage
   • Unseen poem
3. Pedagogy of Language Development :
   • Role of listening and speaking
   • Learning and acquisition
   • Principles of language teaching
   • Language skills – role of listening and speaking
   • Role of grammar in learning a language
   • Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom
   • Evaluation of comprehension and language skills
   • Teaching learning materials
   • Remedial teaching
4. Mathematics:
   • Geometry
   • Shapes & Spatial Understanding
   •  Solids Around Us
   • Numbers
   • Addition and Subtraction
   • Multiplication
   • Division
   • Measurement
   • Time
   • Volume
   • Weight
   • Money
   • Pattern
   • Data handling
5. Pedagogical Issues of mathematics:
   • Language of mathematics
   • Community mathematics
   • Problem-solving techniques
   • Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
   • Diagnostic and remedial teaching
   • Place of mathematics in the curriculum
   • Logical thinking – understand children thinking and reasoning pattern and strategies for making learning and meaning
6. Environmental Studies
   • Family and Friends
   • Food
   • Shelter
   • Water
   • Travel
   • Things We Make and Do
7. Pedagogical Issues of EVS
   • Concept and scope of EVS
   • Integrated teaching
   • Learning principles
   • Teaching materials and activities
   • CCE
   • score and relation to science and social science
   • approach to presenting concepts
   • problems creating
   • significance of EVS integrated EVS
   • activities
   • discussion

2.CTET Paper 2 Syllabus 2025 (For Classes6 to 8)

1. Child Development (Elementary School Child)
   •  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-centred 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;
   • Assessing readiness levels of learners; enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.
2. Concept of Inclusive Education and Understanding Children with Special Needs
   •  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
3. Learning and Pedagogy
   • 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

3.CTET Syllabus for Language-I Section

1. Language Comprehension:
   • Reading unseen passages – two passages one prose or drama and one poem
   • Questions will be from comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability
   • (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)
2. Pedagogy of 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 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

4.CTET Syllabus for Language-II Section

1. Language Comprehension:
   •  Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific)
   • Questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
2. Pedagogy of 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 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
     
3. Pedagogy of Language Development
   •  Learning and acquisition
   • Principles of language Teaching
4. Mathematics
   •  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
5. Pedagogical mathematics
   •  Nature and structure of mathematics
   • Error analysis
   • Diagnostic and remedial teaching
   • Problem of teaching
   • Place of mathematics in the curriculum
   • Language of mathematics
   • Community mathematics
6.  Science
   • Food :
     • Components
     • Sources
     • Cleaning
   • Materials:
     • Types
     • Changes
     • Properties
   • The World of the Living
   • Natural  Phenomena:
     • Rain
     • Storms
     • Light
   • Natural  Resources:
     • Air
     • Water
     • Soil
       
   • Moving things , people and ideas
   • How things work Electric current and circuits magnets
7. Pedagogical mathematics
   •  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
8. Social Studies/Social Science
   • History:
     • Earliest societies
     • Early states
     • New ideas
     • When, where, and how
     • The first farmers and herders
     • The first cities
     • The first empire
     • Contacts with distant lands
     • Political developments
     • Culture and science
     • Nationalist movement
     • India after independence
     • Architecture
     • New kings and kingdom
     • Sultans of delhi
     • Creation of an empire
     • Social change
     • Regional cultures
     • The establishment of company power
     • Rural life and society
     • Colonialism and tribal societies
     • Women and reform
   • 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:
     • Democracy
     • Government
     • State government
     • Local government
     • Diversity
     • Constitution
     • Making a living
     • Understanding media
     • Unpacking gender
     • Parliamentary government
     • The judiciary
     • Social justice and the marginalized
9. Pedagogical Issues :
   • 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