Mizoram TET Syllabus 2022 for Paper 1 & 2

Before going through the detailed syllabus below, let's have a look at the overview or highlights of the Mizoram TET (MTET) syllabus below.

Particulars	Paper 1	Paper 2
Number of Subjects	5	4
Name of Subjects	Child Development and Pedagogy Language-I (English) Language-II (Mizo or Alternative English) Mathematics Environmental Studies	Child Development and Pedagogy Language-I (English) Language-II (Mizo or Alternative English) Mathematics and Science or Social Studies/Social Science

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The Mizoram TET syllabus 2022 is divided into two parts- Paper 1 and Paper 2. Both papers comprise four to five sections. There are some common sections or subjects in both Paper 1 and Paper 2 such as Child Development and Pedagogy, Language-I and Language-II. Lets first have a look at the syllabus of common subjects in Paper 1 and Paper 2 below before going through the paper-wise syllabus:

Child Development & Pedagogy Syllabus: Paper 1 & Paper 2

Child Development:

• Perspective in development: Factors affecting child development, naturalistic observations: interviews, anecdotal records, narratives
• Physical – Motor Development: Growth and maturation, gross and fine motor development skills in infancy and pre-school children
• Social and emotional development: Personality development (Freud), psycho-social development (Erikson), attachment: Bowlby, Ainsworth, development of emotions; functions of emotions and the ability to regulate them.
• Childhood: Childhood in the modern world. How poverty, globalization and adult culture affect the child, commonalities and diversities within the notion of childhood
• Context of socialization: Concept of socialization, parenting styles, school culture, peer influence, competition, conflict and cooperation

Concept of inclusive education & understanding children with special needs:

• Inclusive Education: Concept of inclusive education, forms of inclusion and exclusion, addressing inequality and diversity in Indian classroom; pedagogical and curriculum concerns
• Children with special needs: Identification, assessment and intervention of disability, approaches and skills for teaching children with special needs
• Gender, School and Society: Social construction of masculinity and femininity, working towards gender equality in the classroom

Teaching & Learning Process: Behaviourism & constructivism and their educational implications, factors affecting learning, motivation for learning, evaluation, concept, process & purpose of evaluation & assessment, evaluation & measurement, continuous and comprehensive evaluation, tools & techniques of evaluation

Teaching Aptitude: Factors affecting teaching, methods & techniques of teaching; learner-centred teaching strategies, classroom management skills: planning and implementation, qualities of a good facilitator, emotional maturity, balanced personality, attitude, values, professional ethics, conduct rules, inculcating democratic ideals and moral value

Alternative English Syllabus: Paper 1 & Paper 2

• Language Comprehension: Unseen passages - one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability.
• Pedagogy of Language Learning Mother Tongue and Language Development: Mother tongue: definition and meaning, aims and objectives of teaching first and second language in elementary schools, characteristics and qualities of a good language teacher, four language skills, prose, poetry, vocabulary, grammar, lesson planning, English usage, idioms and phrases, the importance of teaching aids in teaching English, learner assessment, classroom activities
• Teaching Strategies: Teaching prose, teaching poetry, teaching vocabulary, teaching grammar
• Classroom activities: role play, dramatization, recitation, extempore speech, debate, storytelling
• Assessment: concept and purpose, responding to content and form, using portfolios for subjective assessment

English Syllabus: Paper 1 & Paper 2

• Language Proficiency: Reading unseen passages- one prose or drama or one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability, four language skills, grammar, vocabulary
• Pedagogy of Language Development: Issues on teaching English, teaching English as a second language and foreign language: developmental, socio-economic and psychological factors, key factors affecting second language acquisition, nature of language

Approaches and Methods of Teaching English: Different approaches to the teaching of English

• Behaviouristic Approach
• Structural Approach
• Cognitive Approach
• Constructivist Approach
• Communicative Approach
• Different methods and techniques of teaching English:
• Grammar translation method
• Audio lingual method
• Direct Method
• Bilingual Method
• Planning: Unit planning and lesson planning, English across the curriculum, preparation and use of low-cost teaching aids
• Teaching Strategies: Four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing, grammar
• Developing and Assessing: Listening skills, speaking skills, reading skills, writing skills

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Let’s now have a look at the Mizoram TET Paper 1 syllabus in detail below for Mathematics and EVS subjects:

Mathematics Syllabus

The Mizoram TET Maths syllabus is divided into two sections- Content and Pedagogical Issues. Have a look at the detailed syllabus below:

Content: Geometry, Shapes & Spatial Understanding, Solids around us, Numbers, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Measurement, Weight, Time, Volume, Data Handling, Patterns, Money

Pedagogical issues:

• Nature of mathematics/logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning
• Aims and objectives of teaching mathematics in primary schools
• Place of mathematics in curriculum
• Language of mathematics
• Methods and techniques of teaching mathematics at the primary stage
• Instructional materials in mathematics, their importance and improvisation
• Problems of teaching mathematics
• Assessment in mathematics
• Concept and purpose
• Techniques of assessment
• Assessment tools
• Diagnostic and remedial teaching
• Planning for teaching mathematics
• Annual plan, unit plan, lesson plan
• Mathematical reasoning
• Communicating mathematics

Environmental Studies (EVS) Syllabus

The Mizoram TET EVS syllabus is divided into two sections- Content and Pedagogical Issues. Have a look at the detailed syllabus below:

Content:

• Family and Friends
• Relationships
• Work and Play
• Animals
• Plants
• Food
• Shelter
• Water
• Travel
• Things we do and make

Pedagogical issues:

• Concept and Scope of EVS: Curriculum organization, EVS as an integrated area of studies, EVS as science and evs as social science
• Perspective in EVS Learning: How children learn – based on Piaget, Vygotsky and Bruner, preconception and alternative conception in children.
• Classroom transaction: Methods and techniques of teaching EVS, process skills in EVS, different types of teaching-learning materials for teaching EVS, indicators of learning
• Assessment in EVS: Concept and purpose of assessment, techniques of assessment, assessment tools

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Have a look at the subject-wise Mizoram TET Paper 2 syllabus below for Mathematics and Science and Social Studies subjects:

Mathematics & Science Syllabus

Mathematics Content:

• Number system
• Knowing our numbers
• Playing with numbers
• Whole numbers
• Negative numbers and integers
• Fractions
• Algebra including ratio and proportion
• Geometry
• Basic geometrical ideas (2D)
• Understanding elementary shapes (2D and 3D)
• Symmetry: (Reflection)
• Mensuration
• Data handling

Pedagogical issues:

• Nature of mathematics/logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning
• Aims and objectives of teaching mathematics in middle schools
• Place of mathematics in curriculum
• Language of mathematics
• Methods and techniques of teaching mathematics at middle stage
• Instructional materials in mathematics, their importance and improvisation
• Problems of teaching mathematics
• Assessment in mathematics
• Concept and purpose
• Techniques of assessment
• Assessment tools
• Diagnostic and remedial teaching
• Planning for teaching mathematics
• Annual plan, unit plan, lesson plan
• Mathematical reasoning
• Communicating mathematics

Science content:

• Food (sources of food, components of food, cleaning food)
• Materials (materials of daily use)
• The world of the living
• Moving things people and ideas
• How things work (electric current and circuits, magnets)
• Natural phenomena
• Natural resources

Pedagogical issues:

• Aims and objectives of teaching science in elementary school
• Problems and remedies of teaching science
• Correlation and interdependence of science with other subjects
• Educational values of teaching science
• Qualities of a good science teacher
• Development of scientific attitude
• Methods of teaching science in elementary school
• Science museum, field trips, projects and exhibition
• Different types of assessment
• Teaching-learning materials (teaching aids) in science

Social Science/ Social Studies Syllabus

Content:

Our Pasts

• What, where, how and when?
• On the trail of the earliest people
• From gathering to growing food
• In the earliest cities
• What books and burials tell us
• New questions and ideas
• New kings and kingdoms
• The Delhi sultans
• The Mughal empire
• Towns, traders and craft persons
• Tribes, nomads and settled communities
• From trade to territory
• Ruling the countryside
• When people rebel - 1857 and after
• Weavers, iron smelters and factory owners
• Civilising the “native”, educating the nation
• The making of the national movement: 1870s-1947
• India after independence

Geography

• The earth in the solar system
• Globe
• Motions of the earth
• Environment
• Inside our earth
• Air
• Water
• Natural vegetation and wildlife
• Human environment – settlement, transport and communication
• Resources
• Land, soil, water, natural vegetation and wildlife resources
• Agriculture
• Human resources

Social and Political Life

• Diversity and discrimination
• Key element of a democratic government
• Panchayati raj
• Rural administration
• Urban administration
• Equality in Indian democracy
• State government
• Gender
• Indian constitution and secularism
• Parliament and the making of laws
• Social justice and the marginalized

Pedagogical issues:

• Important themes in social studies
• Classroom transaction/processes
• Evaluation in social science/social studies

A. Almost all the sections are scoring in the MTET exam. Candidates find the Child Development and Pedagogy section as the most scoring one.