Sikkim TET Syllabus 2024- STET Previous Question Paper, Sample/ Model Papers

Child Development and Pedagogy

Concept of development and its relationship with learning, Principles of the development of children, Gross and fine motor development skills in infancy & preschool children, Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teachers, parents, peers, Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives, Development of speech and language, 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., Understanding child abuse, Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs and Learning and Pedagogy

Language Comprehension, 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 and in written form, Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and

disorders, Language Skills, Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and

writing, Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching

Science Food: Sources and Components, Nutrition in Plants and Animals, Light, Shadows and Reflection, Electric Current and its effects, Sound, Microorganism: Friend and Foe, Pollution of Air and Water, Physical and Chemical changes, Fiber to Fabric

Social Science:  Political Life, History –Our Pasts, Geography, History: From Gathering to Growing Food, Rulers and Buildings, India after Independence Geography: Motions of the Earth, Life in the Temperate Grassland, Mineral and Power Resources.

Social and Political Life: Diversity and Discrimination., Understanding Media, Understanding Marginalization

Numbers: Squares and Square roots, Cubes and Cube roots, Integers, Decimals and Fractions, Algebraic Expressions and Identities, Factorizations, Rational Numbers, Exponents and Powers, Addition and Subtraction, Operation on Numbers, Ratio and proportion, Measurement, Comparing Quantities, Direct and Inverse Variations, Geometry, Shapes & Spatial Understanding, Solids around Us, Mensuration, Weight, Data Handling, Patterns, Money.

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, Language of Mathematics, Community Mathematics, Evaluation through formal and informal methods, Problems of Teaching, Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching, Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching

Child Development:  Concept of development and its relationship with learning, Principles of the development of children, Gross and fine motor development skills in infancy & preschool children, Socialization processes: Social world & children, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives, Development of speech and language.

The concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs

Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived.

Learning and Pedagogy:  How children think and learn: how and why children fail to achieve success in school performance, the Basic process of teaching and learning: children’s strategies of learning and social activity: The social context of learning, Factors contributing to learning- personal and environmental

Language Comprehension, 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 and in written form, Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and

disorders, Language Skills, Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and

writing, Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching

Number System- Real numbers, Fractions, Algebra- Polynomials, Ration and Proportion, Equations, Arithmetic Progression, Introduction to Trigonometry, Introduction to Trigonometry, Geometry, Mensuration, Coordinate Geometry, Data handling- Pictorial Representation of Data, Mean, Median and Mode of Grouped and Ungrouped Data, Probability, Pedagogical Issues- Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking, Remedial Teaching, Problem of Teaching

Motion, Velocity, Acceleration, circular motion, Force and laws of motion, Gravitation, Work and energy, Sound-its speed and characteristics, Light, Reflection, Refraction, Human eye, Electricity, non-metals, Acid ,base and salt, Carbon and its compounds, Atoms and molecules, Structure of the atom, Periodic classification of elements, Basic chemical reactions and equations, Wate, Physiological processes in plants and animals, Respiration, Transportation, Reproduction, Cell -structure and functions, Tissue- structure and functions, Forest, Environment, Natural resources, Control and coordination

History:  In the Earliest Cities, New Questions and Ideas, Ashoka, the Emperor who Gave up War, The Delhi Sultanate, The Mughal Empire, From Trade to Territory (The Company establishes Power), When People Rebel (1857 & After), Women, Caste and Reform, Nationalism in India

Geography: Planet Earth in the Solar System, Globe, Environment in its totality: Natural and Human Environment, Air, Water, Human Environment: Settlement, Transport and Communication, Resources: Types – Natural and Human, Agriculture, Physical Features of India.

Social and Political Life: Key Elements of a Democratic Government, How the State Government Works, The Indian Constitution, Judiciary, Electoral Politics, Federalism, Understanding Marginalization, Gender: Women Change the World, Diversity, and Discrimination