Organisation : Education Department, Government of Sikkim
Recruitment Exam : Sikkim Teacher Eligibility Test STET
Announcement : Syllabus
Website : https://tet.sikkim.gov.in/
Education Department Sikkim STET Syllabus
Paper I: Primary Stage (Grades I to V)
CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY (30 questions)
I. Child development (primary school child) : (15 Questions)
1. Concept and principles of development and its relationship with learning :
a. Principles of growth and development
b. Factors influencing growth and development
c. Domains of development and milestones in early and middle childhood
i. Gross and fine motor skills
ii. Cognitive development
iii. Social development
iv. Emotional development
2. Development of speech and language :
a. Language development in different ages
b. Factors influencing language development
c. Uses of language
3. Socialisation processes: The social world and children (teachers, parents, peers.)
a. Parenting: Family and adult-child relationship; child-rearing practices; impact of separation from parents, and children in institutionalised settings
b. Schooling: Peer influence, school culture, relationship with teacher, relationships with peers, competition and cooperation, competition and conflict, aggression and bullying during childhood
c. Early childhood care and education: Definition; objectives and principles of ECCE; different approaches to early childhood education, planning and management of an ECCE curriculum; foundational literacy and numeracy
4. Theoretical constructs and critical perspectives :
a. Piaget’s stages of cognitive development
b. Kohlberg’s theory (moral development)
5. Acts and policies :
a. National Policy on Education (1968, 1986), National Curriculum Framework 2005, National Education Policy 2020
b. Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009
II. Concept of inclusive education : (5 Questions)
1. Meaning and importance of inclusive education
a. Historical and contemporary perspectives on inclusive education
b. Acts and policies: Rehabilitation Council of India Act (1992), Integrated Education for Disabled Children (IEDC), RPWD (2016), NEP 2020 (with special focus on inclusive education)
2. Addressing individual differences among learners from diverse backgrounds
a. Understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.
b. Understanding challenges of socio-economically disadvantaged groups- regional, linguistic, and ethnic groups
c. Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender bias and educational practice
d. Socio-cultural variations in language: Bilingual/multilingual children, linguistic variations, implications for a multicultural classroom
3. Addressing needs of children with different abilities
a. Learning disabilities: Meaning, characteristics and identification of children with learning disabilities
b. Approaches and techniques for helping learning-disabled children.
c. Children with Disabilities: Types, role of teacher while dealing with Children with Special Needs (CWSN)/divyang children
d. Gifted Learners: Meaning, characteristics and identification of gifted children
4. Child labour and child abuse
a. Acts and policies, challenges, and their implications on child development (physical, sexual, emotional, verbal) (POCSO Act, Child labour Act, State Council for Protection of Child Rights
III. Learning and pedagogy : (10 Questions)
1. How children think and learn
a. Theories of learning and their educational implications
i. Learning: Concept and type of learning (Gagne’s Classification) Gagne’s hierarchical theory of learning
ii. Behavioural or stimulus: Response connection theory; Pavlov’s classical conditioning learning, Thorndike trial and error learning, Skinner’s operant conditioning learning
iii. Bandura and Walter’s social learning theory
iv. Vygotsky’s theory; concept of Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
b. Bloom’s Taxonomy of cognitive domains
c. Factors contributing to learning- Personal, social, and environmental
d. Concept formation
i. Meaning of concept
ii. Mental processes in concept formation
iii. Factors affecting development of concepts in childhood
iv. Bruner’s model of concept learning
v. Piaget’s views on concept formation
e. Thinking and reasoning
i. Concept and nature of thinking
ii. Linkages between thinking and learning
2. Basic processes of teaching and learning: Children’s strategies of learning (transfer of learning etc.); learning as a social activity; social context of learning
a. Learning process: Learning concept, characteristics, principles, types, domains
b. Transfer of learning: Meaning, types, theories, and educational implication
c. Approaches of teaching and learning: Project method, discussions, problem-solving method etc.
d. Play – meaning, characteristics, and types
e. Play and its functions: Linkages with the physical, social, emotional, cognitive, language and motor development of children; socio-economic differences in children’s play
3. Assessment and learning
a. Different ways of recording and interpreting data: Measures of central tendency- mean, median and mode, anecdotal records, observation, checklists, portfolio etc.
b. Approaches to assessment: Formative and summative assessment
c. Characteristics of good assessment: Validity, reliability, fairness, objectivity etc.
Structure of STET
** All questions in STET will be Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), with four alternatives out of which one answer will be the most appropriate. Each question will carry one mark and there will be no negative marking.
** There will be two papers under STET.
(i) Paper I will be for a candidate who intends to be a teacher for grades I to V.
(ii) Paper II will be for a candidate who intends to be a teacher for grades VI to VIII.
Structure of Papers :
Paper I (Primary Stage) :
Subject area No. of questions (MCQs) Total marks
Child Development and Pedagogy 30 30
Language I 30 30
Language II 30 30
Mathematics 30 30
Environmental Studies 30 30
Total 150 150
Paper II (Elementary Stage) :
Subject area No. of questions (MCQs) Total marks
Child Development and Pedagogy 30 30
Language I 30 30
Language II 30 30
Mathematics and Science 60 60
OR
Social Science 60 60
Total 150 150
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