Jharkhand Teacher Eligibility Test 2021

Child Development and Pedagogy

• Understanding diverse learners
• Personality
• Adjustment
• Action Research
• How Children learn and think
• Motivation and Implications for
• Earning
• Individual Differences
• Teaching-learning process
• Intelligence
• Child Development, etc.

Language I

• Teaching Learning Materials
• Principles of Teaching English
• Unseen Prose Passage Comprehensive & Continuous Evaluation
• Development of Language Skills
• Teaching
• Learning Materials
• Unseen Prose Passage, etc.

Language II

• Basic knowledge of English Sounds and their Phonetic Transcription
• Modal Auxiliaries
• Phrasal Verbs and Idioms
• Literary Terms
• Unseen Prose Passage
• Unseen Poem, etc.

Mathematics

• Division
• Volume
• Numbers
• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Geometry
• Measurement
• Weight
• Time
• Shapes & Spatial Understanding
• Pedagogical issue
• Data Handling
• Money
• LCM & HCF, etc.

Environmental Studies

• Water
• Natural Resources
• Solar System
• Basic needs, Food, resources, and care
• Our Surroundings
• Group songs, Health, good habits & personal hygiene
• Living and nonliving
• Looking at the trees, plants & animals
• Parts of plants, etc.

Child Development and Pedagogy

• Child development: Concept of development and its relationship with learning, Principles of the development of children, Influence of Heredity & Environment.
• Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
• Concepts of child-centred and progressive education: Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky, constructs and critical perspectives., Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence, Multi-Dimensional Intelligence, Language & 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 & Comprehensive Evaluation., perspective, and practice, Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners, for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.
• Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs 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.
• Learning and Pedagogy: 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 and 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 & Emotions, Motivation, and learning, Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental.

Language I: Language Comprehension Reading unseen passages, Learning and acquisition, Principles of Language Teaching, Role of listening and speaking, the function of language and how children use it as a tool, A 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 and Language Skills, Teaching-learning materials,  Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching III.

Language II: comprehension, grammar, and Verbal Ability.

Mathematics and Science

• Mathematics: Arithmetic Progression, Number system, Statistics & Probability, Trigonometry, Coordinate geometry,  Identifies, Pair of linear equations in two variables, Quadratic equations, Polynomials, Mensuration, Triangles, Quadrilaterals,  Circles, Area related to circles, Science.
• Physics: Motion, Light, Lens,  Mirror, Electricity and Electric Circuits, Resistors, Magnetism, Natural phenomenon.
• Chemistry: Materials & Materials in our daily life – Metals, non-metals, Acids, Bases, and Salts: Physical and chemical properties. Atoms and Molecules: Formulae, Masses, electronic configuration. Polymers: Artificial, natural, uses. Natural resources: Types and applications. Chemicals in our daily life: Soaps, detergents, Sweeteners, medicines, Drugs.
• Biology: Definition of food, Food and its importance, Food chain, Food web, Food pyramid, Food and its sources – Plant source and animal source implications, Food and its constituents: Energy-giving food – Carbohydrates & lipids, Body-building food – Proteins, Body protectors – Vitamins & minerals, Roughage, and water. Living World: Microorganisms, Plant kingdom: Thallophyta, Animal kingdom.

Social Studies/Social Sciences

• History: When, Where and How, The Earliest Societies, 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.
• Geography: Geography as a social study and as a science, 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.
• 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 Marginalized.
•  Pedagogical issues: Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies, Classroom Processes, activities, and discourse, Developing Critical thinking, Enquiry/Empirical Evidence, Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies, Sources – Primary & Secondary, Project Work, Current methods of Evaluation.