Child Development and Pedagogy Notes for CTET/ PTET in English Free

CTET

a) Child Development (Primary School Child)

• Concept of development and its relationship with learning
• Principles of the Development of Children
• Influence of Heredity and Environment
• Socialization Processes: Social World and 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 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 and Assessment of Learning
• School-based Assessment, Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation: Perspective and Practice
• Formulating Appropriate Questions for Assessing Readiness Levels of Learners; Enhancing Learning and Critical Thinking in the Classroom and for Assessing Learner Achievement.

b) 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 et cetera
• addressing the talented, creative, specially abled learners

c) 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.