PAPER – 2
SECTION A : CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY – 30 MARKS
Unit – I :- Child Development (Focus on Upper Primary School Children)
- Features of Physical, Cognitive, Social, Emotional & Moral development during pre-adolescence and adolescence
- Effect of Heredity and Environment on development
- Needs and problems of adolescents
- Individual differences among learners
Unit – II :- Learning
- Learning as meaning making knowledge and construction
- How children learn – observation, initiation, trial, error, experience
- Learning as social activity
- Rote learning and meaningful learning
- Factors affecting learning
- Strategies for promoting lessons
- Addressing learners from diverse background including disadvantaged and deprived
- Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties and impairment
- Addressing the talented, creative and specially abled learners
Unit – III :- Curriculum Teaching – Learning Approaches and Evaluation
- Teacher-centred, learner centred and learning-centred approaches
- Principles of curriculum organization
- Teaching learning aids
- Continuous comprehensive assessment of learning, planning and designing achievement tests, rating scale, check list
- Test reliability and validity
- Date representation – mean, mode and median and standard deviation
Section B : Language 1 (Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali) 30 marks GROUP A (PEDAGOGY)
Unit – 1:- Learning Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali at Upper Primary Level
- Aims and objectives of learning Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali as first language
- Principles of teaching mother tongue
- Development of language skills (speaking, reading, writing and listening)
Unit – 2 :- Teaching Language
- Intensive and Extensive reading skills at upper primary level
- Teaching of non-detailed and detailed texts (prose, poetry)
- Teaching of composition and creative writing
- Teaching of grammar Challenges of teaching Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali in multi-lingual context
Unit – 3 :- Assessment of Language
- Assessment of learning Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali language –listening, speaking, reading and writing
- Planning and designing achievement tests and other tools for assessment
GROUP B (CONTENT)
Unit – 4 :- Elements of Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali Language
- Comprehension of two unseen passages (one from prose / drama and other from poem) with test items on comprehension, vocabulary and grammar.
Unit – 5 :- Language Items
- Parts of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjectives, conjunction)
- Formation of words (pre-fix and suffix)
- Vocabulary (spelling and meaning of synonym and antonym)
- Phrases and idioms
Unit – 6 :- Contribution of famous literates for development of Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali language
- Odia-Fakir Mohan Senapati, Gangadhar Meher, Radhanath Ray, Surendra Mohanty, Gopinath Mohanty
- Urdu – Altaf Hussain Hali, Niaz Fatepuri, Ali Sardar Jafri, Amir Khusroo, Majrooh Sultanpuri
- Hindi – Bharatendu Harischandra, Mahavir Prasad Dwivedy, Prem Chand, Jayashankar Prasad, Suryakanta Tripathy Nirala
- Bengali – Rabindra Nath Tagore, Sarat Chandra Chhatopadhya, Tarasankar Bandopadhyay, Kzi Nazrul Islam, Bibhuti Bhusan Bandopadhyay
- Telugu – Srinanthadu, Gurajuda Appa Rao, Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Arudra, C. Narayan Reddy
- Section C : Language II (English) 30 marks
GROUP A (PEDAGOGY)
Unit – 1 :- Learning English at Upper Primary Level
- Importance of learning English
- Objective of learning English
Unit – 2 :- Development of English Language Skills
- Basic skills of language (listening, speaking, reading, writing),interdependence of skills
- Teaching of prose, poetry and composition
- Teaching of creative writing
- Principles of language teaching
- Challenges of teaching English as second language at upper primary level
Unit – 3 :- Assessment of learning English Language
- Assessment of comprehension and language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing)
GROUP B (CONTENT)
Unit – 4 :- Comprehension
- Two unseen passages (one from prose / drama and another from poem) with questions on comprehension, grammar)
Unit – 5 :- Language Items
- Parts of speech, tense, voice change and change of narration, use of article, use of punctuation mark
- Vocabulary – meaning and spelling
Section D : Mathematics (only for Mathematics and Science Teacher) 30 marks
GROUP A (PEDAGOGY)
Unit – 1 :- Mathematics at Upper Primary Stage
- Nature of Mathematics – logical, systematic, abstractions, pattern, mathematical language
- Aims and objectives of teaching Mathematics
- Specific objectives of teaching Mathematics
Unit – 2 :- Methods and Approaches to Teaching-Learning Mathematics
- Methods : induction, deduction, analysis and synthesis
- Approaches : Constructivist and activity-based
Unit – 3 :- Evaluation in Mathematics
- Formal and informal evaluation
- Error analysis
- Remedial and enrichment programmes
GROUP B (CONTENT)
Unit – 4 :- Number System
- Number System (focus on real and rational numbers)
- Properties in different number systems
Unit – 5 :- Algebra
- Basic concepts : terms, co-efficient, powers
- Algebraic equations and their applications (with one variable)
- Polynomials – operations in polynomials
- Laws of indices
- Identities
Unit – 6 :- Commercial Arithmetic
- Percentage and its application (profit and loss, simple and compound, interest, banking, rebate)
- Ratio and proportion
- Variation and its application
- Square, square root, cube, cube root of natural numbers
Unit – 7 :- Shapes and Spatial Relationship
- Triangles and Quadrilaterals
- Angles, complementary and supplementary angles, opposite angles, exterior angles of the triangle
- Angle sum property
- Parallel lines and properties relating to parallel lines
- Congruency and similarities
- Menstruations (area and circumference of circle, higher order problems relating to area of square, triangle, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezium, Pythagorean theorem)
Section E : Science (only for Mathematics and Science Teacher) 30 marks GROUP A (PEDAGOGY)
Unit – 1 :- Nature of Science
- Aims and objectives of teaching learning science at upper primary stage
Unit – 2 :- Methods and Approaches
- Methods : Observation, Experimentation, Discovery, Project and Problemsolving
- Approaches : Integrated approach, constructivists approach
Unit – 3 :- Evaluation in Science
- Tools and techniques for assessing learning in Science
GROUP B (CONTENT)
Unit – 4 :- Physical Science
- Metal, non-metal and metalloid
- Elements and compounds
- Symbol, valence and chemical equation
- Acid, base and salt
- Physical and chemical change in matters
- Force, motion, friction, pressure in solid, liquid and gases
- Electricity and current chemical effects of electric current
- Refraction and reflection of light
- Solar system and planets
Unit – 5 :- Life Science
- Biological adaptation among living beings
- Respiration and transpiration
- Soil and forest resource
- Cell structure and function of cell organelle
- Micro-organisms
- Adolescence in human being
Section F : Social Study (only for Social Study Teacher) 30 marks
GROUP A (PEDAGOGY)
Unit – 1 :- Aims and Objectives of Teaching Social Studies
- Importance of teaching-learning Social Sciences at upper primary stage
- Aims and objectives of teaching-learning Social Sciences
- Specific objectives of teaching-learning Social Science
Unit – 2 :- Methods and Approaches
- Methods : Survey, field work / trips, project, group work
- Approaches : Activity-based, theme-based
Unit – 3 :- Evaluation in Social Science
- Tools and technique for assessment of learning in Social Science
- Diagnostic assessment and remedial teaching
GROUP B (CONTENT)
Unit – 4 :- History and Political Science
- Methods of historical studies, social, economic and political conditions of sultanate, moghul and British period
- Slave, Khiligi, Tughlaq, Lodi Dynasty
- East India Company, British Crown, Impact of British rules, Ancient period, Kharabela, Ashoka
- Soma, Garganga, Surya, fall of Odisha, Odisha under Moghuls
- Nationalist movement in India
- Development of Nationalism and Europe
Unit – 5 :- Political Science
- Indian Constitution
- Human Rights
- Governance at Central, State and Local level
- Political Parties and pressure group
Unit – 6 :- Geography
- Odisha Geography – physical features, climate, agriculture and industry
- Natural resources (land, water, forest and wild animals, minerals)
- Atmosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere
- Earth – crust, internal structure, landscape (hills and mountains, platue, plains, rivers)
- Temperature zones of earth
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