• The concept of development and its relationship with learning
• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement
• Principles of the development of children
• Evaluation: perspective and practice
• Influence of Heredity & Environment
• The distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive
• Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
• Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion etc
• Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky constructs and critical perspectives. Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
• Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice
• Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
• Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
• Language & Thought

• 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

Pedagogy of Language Development

• Learning and acquisition
• Remedial Teaching
• Principles of Language Teaching
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
• Role of listening and speaking; the function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
• The 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

• Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with a question on comprehension, grammar and verb

Pedagogy of Language Development

• Same as Language I

• Geometry
• Data Handling
• Shapes & Spatial Understanding
• Volume
• Solids around Us
• Time
• Numbers
• Weight
• Addition and Subtraction
• Measurement
• Multiplication
• Division

Apart from the above, there will be questions on pedagogical issues relating to Mathematics.

• Travel
• Water
• Shelter
• Food
• Family and Friends

• Same as Paper I

• Same as Paper I

• Same as Paper I

• Number System
• Algebra
• Geometry
• Mensuration
• Data Handling

Apart from the above, there will be questions on pedagogical issues.

• Food
• Materials
• The World of Living
• Moving Things, People, and Ideas
• How Do Things Work?
• Natural Phenomena
• Natural Resources

Apart from the above, there will be questions on pedagogical issues.

• History
• Geography
• Social and Political Life

Apart from the above, there will be questions about pedagogical issues.