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Goa TET Syllabus 2025

Goa TET Syllabus: The syllabus of the Goa TET Exam is designed with a motive to select eligible and deserving teachers for the primary as well as upper primary levels. The candidates appearing for becoming teachers at primary and upper primary levels apply for Paper 1 and Paper 2 respectively. And those candidates who intend to become teachers from classes 1 to 8 can apply for appearing in both the papers are Paper1 and Paper2. 

By getting acquainted with the Goa TET Syllabus, the applicants or candidates aspiring to make their career as a teacher can orient their preparation according to the respectively allocated syllabus. The level of difficulty and the topics that are included in the Goa TET Syllabus of Paper 1 is from the secondary education courses (class- 10th).

The topics and level of difficulty included in the Goa TET Syllabus and questions of Paper 2 are from the senior secondary level (class-12th). Here you will find the list of topics available in the Goa TET Syllabus of paper 1 and Paper 2 separately. The respective candidates can refer to it in order to exhibit a substantial performance. 

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The Table is Given below consists of the list of subjects and topics included in the Goa TET Syllabus.

Syllabus for Paper 1 (Primary Classes, Class 1 to 5)























 

Child Development and Pedagogy

Child Development (Primary School Child)

  • Concept of development and its relationship with learning.
  • Principles of the development of the children
  • Socialization processes: Social World and Children
  • Influence of Heredity and Environment
  • Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: Constructs and Critical perspective. 
  • Critical perspective of the construct of intelligence
  • Concept of child-centered and progressive education
  •  Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
  • Language and Thought
  • Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, gender, caste, religion, community, etc. 
  • Gender as a social construct: Gender bias, gender roles, and educational practice
  • Difference between Assessment for Learning and Assessment of Learning
  • Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement

The concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs

  • Addressing learners from a diverse background (Including deprived and disadvantaged)
  • Addressing the needs of children with Impairment, learning difficulties, etc. 
  • Addressing the creative, talented, and specially-abled learners 

Learning and Pedagogy

  • How children think and learn: How and why children fail to achieve success in school performance
  • Child as a problem solver and a scientific Investigator
  • Basic processes of Teaching and Learning, children’s strategies of learning, Social context of learning and learning as a social activity
  • Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding Children’s errors as significant steps in the learning process
  • Motivation and Learning
  • Cognition and Emotion
  • Factors contributing to learning (Personal and Environmental)

Language I

Language Comprehension

  • Reading unseen passages
  • Two Passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, Inference, etc.
  • Grammar and Verbal Ability (Prose passage may be literary, narrative or discursive, scientific, etc.)

Pedagogy of Language Development

  • Learning and Acquisition
  • Role of Listening and speaking: Function of language and how children use it as a tool
  • Principles of Language teaching
  • Critical perspectives on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form
  • Language Skills
  • Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom: language difficulty, errors and disorders, etc. 
  • Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, reading, listening and writing
  • Remedial Teaching
  • Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multilingual resource of the classroom, multimedia materials

Language II

Comprehension

  • Two unseen prose passages (literary, discursive, scientific, or narrative) with a question in comprehension,  verbal ability, and grammar 

Pedagogy of Language Development

  • Learning and Acquisition’
  • Role of listening and speaking: Functions of language and how children use it as a tool
  • Principles of language teaching
  • A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form
  • Language Skills
  • Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom: language difficulty, errors and disorders, etc. 
  • Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, reading, listening and writing
  • Remedial Teaching
  • Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multilingual resource of the classroom, multimedia materials

Mathematics

Content

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

Pedagogical Issues

  • Nature of Mathematics/Logical Thinking: Understanding Children’s thinking and reasoning pattern and strategies of making, learning, and meaning
  • Language of Mathematics
  • Place of Mathematics in curriculum
  • Community Mathematics
  • Problems of Teaching
  • Evaluation through formal and Informal method
  • Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching
  • Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching

Environmental Studies

Content

  • Family and friends (Relationship, work, etc.)
  • Shelter
  • Food
  • Travel
  • water

Pedagogical Issues

  • Concept and scope of EVS
  • Environmental Studies and Environmental Education
  • Significance of EVS, Integrated EVS
  • Learning Principles
  • Approaches to presenting concepts
  • Scope and Relation to Science and Social Science
  • experimentation/ Practical Work
  • Activities
  • CCE
  • Discussion
  • Teaching materials/Aids
  • Problems

Syllabus for Paper 2 (Upper Primary, Class 6 to 8)

Child Development and Pedagogy

Child Development (Elementary school Child)

  • Concept of development and its relationship with learning.
  • Principles of the development of the children
  • Socialization processes: Social World and Children
  • Influence of Heredity and Environment
  • Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: Constructs and Critical perspective. 
  • Critical perspective of the construct of intelligence
  • Concept of child-centered and progressive education
  •  Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
  • Language and Thought
  • Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, gender, caste, religion, community, etc. 
  • Gender as a social construct: Gender bias, gender roles, and educational practice
  • Difference between Assessment for Learning and Assessment of Learning
  • 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 a diverse background (Including deprived and disadvantaged)
  • Addressing the needs of children with Impairment, learning difficulties, etc. 
  • Addressing the creative, talented, and specially-abled learners

Learning and Pedagogy

  • How children think and learn: How and why children fail to achieve success in school performance
  • Child as a problem solver and a scientific Investigator
  • Basic processes of Teaching and Learning, children’s strategies of learning, Social context of learning and learning as a social activity
  • Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding Children’s errors as significant steps in the learning process
  • Motivation and Learning
  • Cognition and Emotion
  • Factors contributing to learning (Personal and Environmental)

Language I

Language Comprehension

  • Reading unseen passages
  • Two Passages one prose or Drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, Inference, etc.
  • Grammar and Verbal Ability (Prose passage may be literary, narrative or discursive, scientific, etc.)
 

Pedagogy of Language Development

  • Learning and Acquisition
  • Role of Listening and speaking: Function of language and how children use it as a tool
  • Principles of Language teaching
  • Critical perspectives on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form
  • Language Skills
  • Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom: language difficulty, errors and disorders, etc. 
  • Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, reading, listening and writing
  • Remedial Teaching
  • Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multilingual resource of the classroom, multimedia materials 

Language II 

Comprehension

  • Two unseen prose passages (literary, discursive, scientific, or narrative) with question in comprehension,  verbal ability and grammar 

Pedagogy of Language Development

  • Learning and Acquisition’
  • Role of listening and speaking: Functions of language and how children use it as a tool
  • Principles of language teaching
  • A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form
  • Language Skills
  • Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom: language difficulty, errors, and disorders, etc. 
  • Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, reading, listening, and writing
  • Remedial Teaching
  • Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multilingual resource of the classroom, multimedia materials

Mathematics

Content

  • Number system
  • Playing with numbers
  • Knowing our Numbers
  • Whole Numbers
  • Fractions
  • Negative numbers and Integers
  • Algebra
  • Introduction to algebra
  • Ratio and Proportion
  • Geometry
  • Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)
  • Understanding elementary shapes (2-D and 3-D)
  • Construction (using straight edge scale, compasses, protractor)
  • Symmetry
  • Data handling
  • Mensuration

Pedagogical Issues

  • Nature of Mathematics/Logical Thinking
  • Language of Mathematics
  • Place of Mathematics in curriculum
  • Community Mathematics
  • Remedial Teaching
  • Evaluation
  • Problem of Teaching

Science 

Content

  • Food
  • Components of Food
  • Sources of Food
  • Materials 
  • Cleaning Food
  • Materials of daily use
  • Materials
  • The world of the living
  • How things work
  • Moving things, people, and Ideas 
  • Electric Current and Circuits
  • Magnets
  • Natural Resources
  • Natural Phenomenon

Pedagogical Issues

  • Nature and structure of Sciences
  • Understanding and Appreciating science
  • Natural Science: Aims and Objectives
  • Approaches and Integrated approach
  • Innovation
  • Observation/Experiment/Discovery (Method of Science)
  • Remedial Teaching 
  • Evaluation: Cognitive, effective, etc. 
  • problems

Social Studies/Social Sciences

Content

History

  • When, Where, and How
  • The first farmers and herders
  • The early societies
  • The first cities
  • New Ideas
  • Early states
  • The first empire
  • Political developments
  • Contact with distant lands
  • Culture and Science
  • Sultans of Delhi
  • New Kings and Kingdom
  • Architecture
  • Social change
  • Creation of an Empire
  • The establishment of company power
  • Regional Cultures
  • Rural life and society
  • Colonialism and Tribal Societies
  • Women and Reform
  • The revolt of 1857-58
  • Challenging the caste system
  • The nationalist movement
  • India after Independence
 

Geography

  • Geography as a Social study and a science
  • Environment in its totality: natural and human environment
  • Planet: Earth in the solar system
  • Water
  • Air
  • Human Environment: Transport, settlement, and communication
  • Agriculture, social and political life 
  • Resources: Types (natural and human)

Social and Political Life

  • Government 
  • Local Government
  • State Government
  • Democracy
  • Understanding Media
  • The Constitution
  • Parliamentary Government
  • The Judiciary

Pedagogical Issues

  • Concept and nature of social science/ social studies
  • Developing critical thinking
  • Classroom processes, discourse, and activities
  • Inquiry/Empirical evidence
  • Sources: Primary and secondary
  • Problems of teaching social science/social studies
  • Project Work
  • Evaluation

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