D.S.C. - 2014 Category of Post: SGT Syllabus : Part - I GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AND CURRENT AFFAIRS (Marks: 10) Part – II CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY (Marks: 30) 1. DEVELOPMENT OF CHILD - Development, Growth & Maturation – Concept & Nature - Principles of Development - Factors influencing Development – Biological, Psychological, Sociological - Dimensions of Development and their interrelationships – Physical & Motor, Cognitive, Emotional, Social, Moral, Language relating to Infancy, early Childhood, late Child hood. - Understanding Development – Piaget, Kohlberg, Chomsky, Carl Rogers - Individual differences – Intra & Inter Individual differences in the areas of Attitudes, Aptitude, Interest, Habits, Intelligence and their Assessment - Development of Personality – Concept, Factors effecting development of Personality - Adjustment, Behavioral problems, Mental Health - Methods and Approaches of Child Development – Observation, Interview, Case study, Experimental, Cross sectional and Longitudinal - Developmental tasks and Hazards 2. UNDERSTANDING LEARNING - Concept, Nature of Learning – Input – Process – Outcome - Factors of Learning – Personal and Environmental - Approaches to Learning and their applicability – Behaviorism (Skinner, Pavlov, Thorndike), Constructivism (Piaget, Vygotsky), Gestalt (Kohler, Koffka) and Observational (Bandura) - Dimensions of Learning – Cognitive, Affective and Performance - Motivation and Sustenance –its role in learning. - Memory & Forgetting - Transfer of Learning 3. PEDAGOGICAL CONCERNS - Teaching and its relationship with learning and learner - Learners in Contexts: Situating learner in the socio-political and cultural context - Children from diverse contexts – Children With Special Needs (CWSN), Inclusive Education - Understanding of Pedagogic methods – Enquiry based learning, Project based learning, Survey, Observation and Activity based learning - Individual and Group learning: Issues and concerns with respect to organizing learning in class room like Study habits, Self learning and Learning to learn skills - Organizing learning in heterogeneous class room groups – Socio-economic background, Abilities and Interest - Paradigms of organizing Learning - Teacher centric, Subject centric and Learner centric - Teaching as Planned activity – Elements of Planning - Phases of Teaching – Pre active, Interactive and Post active - General and Subject related skills, competencies required in teaching and attributes of good facilitator - Learning resources – Self, Home, School, Community, Technology - Class room Management: Role of student, teacher, Leadership style of teacher, Creation of nonthreatening learning environment, Managing behavior problems, Guidance & Counseling, Punishment and its legal implications, Rights of a child, Time Management. - Distinction between Assessment for Learning & Assessment of Learning, School based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation : Perspective & Practice - Understanding teaching & learning in the context of NCF, 2005 & Right to Education Act, 2009.
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