Tripura TET Latest* Syllabus 2021 Download PDF (Paper I & Paper II)

• Growth, development and maturation
• Principles of development of childhood.
• Theories of Piaget, Kohlberg, Carol, Chomsky, Vygotsky and Rogers in relation to child development.
• Concept of child-centric and activity-based education.
• Individual differences
• Theories of intelligence
• Gender and education.
• Classroom management
• Mental health of a child
• Understanding differences among children based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion.
• Distinction between assessment for learning and assessment of learning.
• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness level of learners for enhancing learning and critical thinking.

CONCEPTS OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS:

• Concept of exceptional children and children with special needs (CWSN).
• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived.
•  Concept of learning disability
• Addressing the gifted, creative, specially abled learners (mentally retarded and physically challenged).

 LEARNING AND PEDAGOGY:

• Process of thinking and learning of children.
• Basic approaches to learning
• Alternative concepts of learning in children
• Cognition and emotions
• Motivation and learning
• Class-room management
• Punishment and its legal implications, rights of a child.
• Guidance and counselling: concept, nature and types.

• Two passages, one from prose and the other from poetry with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and test of vocabulary.
• Determiners
• Subject-verb
• Concord
• Interrogatives
• Framing Yes/No & ‘WH’ questions
• Question tags
• Prepositions
• Tense and time
• Phrasal verbs
• Gerunds & Participle
• Auxiliary verbs

 PEDAGOGY FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT:

• Learning and acquisition.
• Principles of language teaching.
• Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas in oral
• and written form.
• Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms: language difficulties, errors and disorders.
• Introduction to English Phonology: vowels and consonants, syllable division.
• Language skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency in LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing).
• Teaching-learning materials.
• Strategies for teaching children with special needs (CWSN).
• Remedial teaching.

The complete Tripura TET Bengali Syllabus and the Tripura TET Kokborok Syllabus are given in the PDFs links above in the article.

Mathematics
(30 MCQs)

• Geometry
• Shapes, spatial understanding, solids, perimeter of rectilinear figures, area of rectangles, practical problems, surface area and volume of solids (sphere, cube, rectangular, parallelepiped), practical problems.
• Measurement
• Numbers
• Arithmetic
• Fractions
• Weight
• Time
• Data handling
• Patterns
• Money

PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES IN MATHEMATICS

• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• Nature of mathematics
• Methods of teaching mathematics
• Instructional material in mathematics
• Evaluation, concept of continuous and comprehensive evaluation. Problems in teaching mathematics
• Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching.
• Diagnostic and remedial teaching.

Environmental Studies

(30 MCQs)

• Concept and scope of environmental studies
• Significance of environmental studies.
• Integrated approach in environmental studies.
• Scope and relation of environmental studies to science and social science.
• Approaches of presenting concepts.
• Environmental studies and environmental education.
• Learning principles.
• Activities.
• Discussion.
• Health and Hygiene
• Shelters: Types of shelters, characteristics of animal shelters.
• Types of vehicles used, railways, waterways and airways.
• Water: Types of water resources, conservation of water resources, water pollution, cause and prevention of water pollution, impact of water pollution on environment, flood and drought.
• Composition of air, causes and impact of air pollution on environment, greenhouse effect and global warming.
• Different types of soil, soil erosion, impact of soil pollution and its prevention.

• Concept of development and its relation with learning.
• Growth and development, stages of development, infancy, childhood and adolescence.
• Principles of development of childhood.
• Influence of heredity and environment on the development of child, role of the teachers
• Emotion: characteristics, emotional maturity, emotional intelligence, emotional quotient (EQ).
• Motivation: concept, types and importance, theories of motivation
• Factors contributing to learning: personal and environmental.
• Language and thought, different stages of language development, role of teacher in the process of language development.
• Gender as a social construct, gender roles, gender-bias and educational practices, gender equality, teachers’ role.

CONCEPT OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

• Addressing learners from diverse background
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties
• Addressing the needs of exceptional children

 LEARNING AND PEDAGOGY

• Basic process of teaching and learning.
• Creative learning situations
• Child as a problem solver and a scientific investigator.
• Alternative conceptions of learning in children
• Cognition
• Emotion
• Motivation
• Motivation and learning
• Factors contributing to learning
• Personality and adjustment

• Two passages, one from prose/drama and the other from poetry with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and test of vocabulary.
• Gerunds
• Error identification
• Modals
• Degree of comparison
• Transformation of sentences
• Concord
• Question tags
• Prepositions
• Tense and time
• Determiners
• Phrasal verbs

PEDAGOGY FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

• Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms – language difficulties, errors and
• disorders.
• Introduction to English Phonology-vowels and consonant classification as per IPA, syllable
• division.
• Teaching-learning materials: textbooks, multimedia materials, ICT, multilingual resources of
• the classroom.
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency in LSRW

The complete Tripura TET Bengali Syllabus and the Tripura TET Kokborok Syllabus are given in the PDFs links above in the article.

Mathematics & Science
(60 MCQs)

• Number System: whole numbers, positive and negative integers, rational numbers-their properties, fractions and decimals.
• Algebra: Formation of algebraic expressions, idea about monomials, binomials and Polynomials ,
• addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of algebraic expressions.
• Arithmetic: Square and square root, cube and cube root, ratio and proportion, inverse proportion
• as proportionality with the reciprocal, percentage, profit and loss, simple and compound interest.
• Geometry: basic geometrical ideas (2-D), understanding elementary shapes (2-D and 3-D).
• Lines and angles, triangles and its properties, congruence of triangles, classification of quadrilaterals as rectangle, square, rhombus, parallelogram, trapezium, and their various
• Mensuration: Perimeter and area of rectangle, square, parallelogram, rhombus, trapezium, triangle and circle.
• Data handling: Graphical representation, representing numerical data, as pictographs, bar graphs,
• double bar graph and pie chart, representing numerical data as frequency table, mean, median, mode and their applications.

SCIENCE (30 MCQs)

• Food and Nutrition
• Micro organism and activities
• Circulation and conduction
• Ecosystem and Natural Resources
• Agriculture and Tools
• Pollution: types of pollution and pollutants, greenhouse effect, global warming, acid rain, impacts of different types of pollutants
• Motion, Force and Pressure: rest and motion, graphical presentation of straight line motion,
• Newton laws of motion and their application,
• Thermal Physics: heat and temperature, thermal conductivity, radiation, application of thermal
• insulators, thermometer.
• Sound: characteristic of sound, application of sound, intensity of sound, sound pollution.
• Electrostatics, current electricity and magnetism, frictional electricity, electroscope, earthling,
• lightning, electric current and circuits, electric cell, heating, chemical and magnetic effects of
• current, magnets, properties of magnet, applications, earth’s magnetism.
• Optics: reflection in plane and spherical mirrors, image in lenses.
• Solar System: sun, planets, satellite, comets, galaxy.
• Metal and Non-metal\
• Geography as social study and as science.
• The Solar System.

Social Studies
(60 MCQs)

• Globe, Latitudes and Longitudes.
• Interior of the Earth.
• Rocks: types and characteristics.
• Geography as social study and as science.
• The Solar System.
• Our changing earth
• Geomorphic process
• Atmosphere
• Hydrosphere
• Economic geography
• Agriculture
• Industry
• Human Environment
• Physical Environment
• Pollution of air and water, deforestation and its impact, ozone depletion and green-house effect.
• Concept of hazard and disaster, industrial hazard, biological hazard, wildfire hazard, landslides.
•  India as a physical unit (relief drainage).
• Forest, mineral and power resources of Tripura

HISTORY (15 MCQs)

• Civilization
• Sixteen Mahajanapada and the First Empire
• Sultans of Delhi
• Beginning of the Mughal Rule
• The Establishment of Company Power in India
• The National Movement
• India after Independence
•  Tribal Society and Festivals of Tripura

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE (15 MCQs)

• Diversity in Indian Society
• Democracy, Government, Legislature, Executive, Judiciary, the Constitution of India, Parliamentary
• System of Government, Central Government, State Government, Local Self-Government in Tripura, Election Process in India

 PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES IN SOCIAL STUDIES (15 MCQs)

• Concept and Nature of Social Studies/ Social Science.
• Nature, Scope and Significance of Social Science Curriculum