SYLLABUS FOR PSTET Paper-1 (for classes I to V) Primary Stage
I. Child Development and Pedagogy 30 Questions
a. Child Development (Primary School Child)
- Concept of development and its relationship with learning
- Principles of development of children
- Influence of Heredity and the Environment
- Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teachers, Parents, and 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 and 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.
- The distinction between Assessment for learning assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous and Comprehension Evaluation: Perspective and practice Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness
- levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and assessing learner achievement
- b. Concept of Inclusive Education and understanding children with special needs learners from
- Addressing diverse backgrounds including
- disadvantaged and deprived
- Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, impairment, etc.
- Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners
- 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 and Emotions
- Motivation and Learning
- Factors contributing to learning – Personal and environmental
II. Language- I (Punjabi)30 Questions SYLLABUS FOR PSTET Paper-1
a. Language Comprehension
Reading unseen passage – two passages: one prose/drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar, and verbal ability (Prose
the passage may be literary, scientific, narrative, or discursive)
b. 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 or in written form
- Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
- Language skills
- Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing
- Teaching-Learning Materials: Text-books, multi-media materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
- Remedial Teaching
III. Language-II (English) 30 Questions SYLLABUS FOR PSTET Paper-1
a. Comprehension
Two unseen prose passages (discursive/literary/narrative/scientific) with
questions on comprehension, grammar, and verbal ability
b. 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 or in written form
- Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language
- difficulties, errors, and disorders
- Language skills
- Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: Listening,
- Speaking, Reading, and Writing
- Teaching-Learning Materials: Text-books, multi-media materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
- Remedial Teaching
IV. Mathematics 30 Questions SYLLABUS FOR PSTET Paper-1
a. Content
- Geometry
- Shapes and Spatial Understanding
- Solids around us
- Numbers
- Addition and Subtraction
- Multiplication
- Division
- Measurement
- Weight
- Time
- Volume
- Data Handling
- PatternsMoney
b. Pedagogical Issues
- Nature of Mathematics / Logical Thinking; understanding children’s
- thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and
- learning, Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
- Evaluation through formal and informal methods Problems of teaching
- Language of Mathematics
- Community Mathematics
V. Environmental Studies 30 Questions SYLLABUS FOR PSTET Paper-1
a. Content Family and Friends
- Relationships
- Work and Play
- Animals
- Plants
- Food
- Shelter
- Water
- Travel
- Error analysis and related aspects of teaching and learning
- Diagnostic and remedial teaching Things We Make and Do
b. Pedagogical Issues
Concept and scope of EVS Significance of EVS integrated EVS Environmental Studies and Environmental Education Learning Principles
- Scope and Relation to Science and Social Science Approaches of presenting concepts
- Activities Experimentation / Practical Work
- Discussion
- CCE
- Teaching Material / Aids
- Problems of teaching