| Child Development (Process Of Growing Up) |
| Growth and Development |
- Concept and Principles of Development
- Difference between growth and development
- Factors influencing development (Nutrition, Intelligence, Psychosocial, Heredity, environment, diseases, injury, Siblings & peers)
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| Theories of development |
- Cognitive development theories of Piaget
- Language development theories of Noam Chomsky)
- Social development theories of Erikson
- Moral development theories of Kohlberg
- Developmental characteristics during childhood ( Physical, Social, Cognitive, and emotional)
- Needs and problems at Childhood and adolescence
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| Approaches to Understanding the Nature of Intelligence |
- Psychometric approach (Guilford, Gardner, Thurstone)
- Information Processing Approach – Sternberg
- Social Constructivist Approach – Vygotsky
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| Addressing Problems of Adolescence |
- Role of Teachers, Parents, and Community
- Development of Self – concept of adolescents
- Counselling Services for adolescents
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| Learning Process / Pedagogy |
| Understanding the Learning Process |
- Learning as a process and as an outcome
- Relevance & applicability of theoretical perspectives on learning – Humanistic (Karl Rogers), Constructivist (Piaget and Vygotsky)
- Basic Conditions of Learning – Readiness, Maturation, Motivation, Maturation, Attention, Task and Methods
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| Organizing Learning |
Characteristics and Process of
- Teacher – centric
- Learner – centric
- Learning – centric
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| Critical Pedagogy |
Concept, Characteristics, Stages & approaches of Critical Pedagogy |
| Addressing Classroom Diversity |
- Using varieties of TLMs
- Using Context of the Learner
- Using Variety of activities while group learning, small group learning, and independent learning
- Adopting curriculum to the needs of children with special needs multilingual education.
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| Educational (School) Management |
| Educational Management |
- Concept, Scope, Importance, and Types – -Centralized and decentralized, Democratic and autocratic
- Structure at National, State, District, and Sub-district (BRCCs, CRCs, SMCs, SMDC) and their roles
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| Management Structure at different levels |
- National
- State
- District
- Subdistricts (BRCs, CRCs, SMCs, SMDC)
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| School Development Plan (SDP) |
- Meaning, Importance, Purpose
- Key Actions – Headmaster, Teachers, Students, Parents & SMDC)
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| School-Based Management (SBM) |
- Concept, Importance, Scope, and Process
- Objectives of SBM
- Resource Management – Sources, Utilization & Mobilization
- Infrastructural resources
- Financial Resources
- Human resources
- Community resources
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| Assessing The Learner / Performance (Evaluation) |
| Assessment and Evaluation |
- Assessment and evaluation from a constructivists perspective
- Concept, Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation, Formative, Summative and Diagnostic Assessment
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| Assessment and Learning |
- Assessment of Learning, Assessment for Learning, Assessment as Learning
- Subject-based learning from a constructivist perspective
- Assessment tools and techniques – Projects, Assignments, observation, Teacher made Tests
- Self – Assessment, Peer – Assessment
- Portfolios, Rubrics
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| Test Construction |
- Steps and Principles of Test Construction
- Development of blueprint
- Preparation of test items
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| Recent Developments in Assessment |
- Grading
- Assessment in the co-scholastic area
- Implementation strategy of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation
- Recommendations of NCF – 2005
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