Tamil Nadu Teachers Eligibility Test 2021

• Child Development and Pedagogy: Concept of Development and its relationship with learning, principles of the development of children, the influence of Heredity, Socialization processes, Concepts of child-centred and progressive education, Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence, Multi-Dimensional Intelligence, Language & Thought, Gender roles & bias, Learning and Pedagogy, How children think and learn, Children’s strategies of learning, Child as a problem solver and Motivation and learning.
• Language I: Reading Comprehensions, Grammar, Pedagogy of Language Development, Learning and acquisition, Principles of Language Teaching, Role of listening and speaking, Challenges of teaching language, Language Skills, Evaluating language comprehension, Teaching- learning materials.
• Language II: Reading Comprehensions, Grammar, Pedagogy of Language Development, Learning and acquisition, Principles of Language Teaching, Role of listening and speaking, Challenges of teaching language, Language Skills, Evaluating language comprehension, Teaching- learning materials.
• Mathematics: Geometry, Shapes & Spatial Understanding, Number system, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Measurement, Weight, Time, Volume, Data Interpretation, Money, Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking, Place of Mathematics in Curriculum, Language of Mathematics, Community Mathematics, Problems of Teaching, Error analysis & Remedial Teaching.
• Environmental Studies: Family and Friends, Food & Shelter, Water, Travel, Concept and scope of EVS, Significance of EVS, Environmental Studies & Environmental Education, Learning Principles, Scope & relation to Science & Social, Science; Activities, Experimentation, Discussion, Problems.

• Child Development and Pedagogy: Child development, Learning and pedagogy, Concept of inclusive education and understanding children with special needs, Factors affecting child development.
• Language I: Unseen passage, Grammar, Language pedagogy, Idioms and proverbs, Ornamentation, Word Combinations.
• Language II: Unseen passage, Grammar, Language pedagogy, Idioms and proverbs, Negative and interrogative sentences, Word Combinations.
• Mathematics: Number system & simplification, Percentage and ratio, Time, Speed and distance, Algebra and mensuration, Geometry, Average, Profit & loss, Pedagogy of Mathematics and Banking.
• Science: Food & material, Classification of plants and animals, The structure and function of animals, From cell to organ, Natural phenomenon and resources, The world of the living, Pedagogy of Science, Sound, Magnetism, Animal nutrition, Carbon and its compounds, Mine and metal.

Social Studies

• 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, Architecture, Creation of an Empire, Social Change, Regional Cultures, The Establishment of Company Power, 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.