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