PSTET Syllabus 2023 Download PDF of Paper 1 and Paper 2

• Concept of development and its relationship with learning
• Principles of Development of Children
• Influence of Heredity and Environment
• Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teachers, Parents, and Peers)
• Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
• Concepts of child-centered 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 Comprehension Evaluation: Perspective and practice
• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing the readiness levels of learners; enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and assessing learner achievement

• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, impairment, etc.
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled learners

• 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

•  Reading unseen passage – two passages: one prose/drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar, and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative, or discursive)

• 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 or in written form
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• Language skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
• Teaching-Learning Materials: Text-books, multi-media materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

• Two unseen prose passages (discursive/literary/narrative/scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar, and verbal ability

• 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 or in written form
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• Language skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
• Teaching-Learning Materials: Text-books, multi-media materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

• Geometry
• Shapes and Spatial Understanding
• Solids around us
• Numbers
• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Division
• Measurement
• Weight
• Time
• Volume
• Data Handling
• Patterns
• Money

• Nature of Mathematics / Logical Thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies for 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 teaching and learning
• Diagnostic and remedial teaching

• Relationships
• Work and Play
• Animals
• Plants
• Food
• Shelter
• Water
• Travel
• Things We Make and Do

• Concept and scope of EVS
• Significance of EVS integrated EVS
• Environmental Studies and Environmental Education
• Learning Principles
• Scope and Relation to Science and Social Science
• Approaches of presenting concepts
• Activities
• Experimentation / Practical Work
• Discussion
• CCE
• Teaching Material / Aids
• Problems of teaching

•  Concept of development and its relationship with learning
• Principles of Development of the Child
• Influence of Heredity and Environment
• Socialization processes: Social world and children (Teachers, Parents, and Peers)
• Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
• Concepts of child-centered 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 Comprehension Evaluation: Perspective and practice
• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing the readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement

• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled learners

• 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

• Reading unseen passage – two passages: one prose/drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar, and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative, or discursive)

•  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 or in written form
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• Language skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
• Teaching-Learning Materials: Text-books, multi-media materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

• Two unseen prose passages (discursive/literary/narrative/scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar, and verbal ability

• 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 or in written form
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• Language skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
• Teaching-Learning Materials: Text-books, multi-media materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

a.) Content

1. Number System

• Knowing our Numbers
• Playing with Numbers
•  Whole Numbers
• Negative Numbers and Integers
• Fractions

 2. Algebra

•  Introduction to Algebra
• Ratio and proportion

 3. Geometry

• Basic Geometrical Ideas (2-D)
• Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
• Symmetry : (reflection)
• Construction (using straight edge scale, protector, compasses)
• Mensuration
• Data Handling

• Nature of Mathematics / Logical Thinking
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• Evaluation
• Remedial Teaching
• Problems of teaching

a.) Content

• Sources of food
• Components of food
• Cleaning food

 ii. Materials

• Materials of daily use

 iii. The world of the living
 iv. Moving things, people, and ideas
 v. How things work

• Electric currents and circuits
• Magnets

 VI. Natural Phenomena
 VII. Natural Resources

• Nature and Structure of Sciences
• Natural Science / Aims and Objectives
• Understanding & Appreciating Science
• Approaches / Integrated Approach
• Observation / Experiment / Discovery (Method of Science)
• Innovation
• Text Materials / Aids
• Evaluation – cognitive/psychomotor/affective
• Problems
• Remedial Teaching

• When, Where, and how
• The Earliest Societies
• The First Farmers and Herders
• The First Cities
•  Early States
•  New Ideas
•  The First Empire
• Contacts with Distant lands
• Political Developments
• Culture and Science
• New Kings and Kingdoms
• Sultans of Delhi
• Architecture
• Creation of an empire
• Social Change
• Regional Cultures
• The Establishment of Company Power
• Rural Life and Society
• Colonialism and Tribal Societies
•  The Revolt of 1857-58
• Women and Reform
• Challenging the Caste System
• The Nationalist Movement
• India after Independence
  ii. Geography
• Geography as a social study and as a science
• Planet: Earth in the Solar system
• Globe
• The environment in its totality: natural and human environment
• Air
• Water
• Human Environment: settlement, transport, and communication
•  Resources: Types-Natural and Human
• Agriculture
  iii. Social and Political Life
• Diversity
•  Government
•  Local Government
• Making a Living
• Democracy
• State Government
• Understanding Media
• Unpacking Gender
• The Constitution
• Parliamentary Government
• The Judiciary
•  Social Justice and the Marginalised

• Concept and Nature of Social Sciences / Social Studies
• Classroom Processes, activities, and Discourse
• Developing Critical Thinking
• Inquiry / Empirical Evidence
• Problems of Teaching Social Sciences / Social Studies
• Sources – Primary & Secondary
• Project Work
• Evaluation