Teaching & Education

Development of child

• Development, Growth & Maturation - Concept & Nature
• Principles of Development & their Educational Implications
• Factors Influencing Development - Biological, Psychological, Sociological
• Dimensions of Development and their interrelationships - Physical & Motor, Cognitive, Emotional, Social, Moral, and Language relating to Infancy, early Childhood, late Childhood, and Adolescence.
• Understanding Development - Piaget, Kohlberg, Chomsky, Carl Rogers and Erikson
• Individual differences - Intra & Inter Individual differences in the areas of Attitudes, Aptitude, Interest, Habits, Thinking (Divergent & Convergent), Intelligence and their Assessment
• Development of Personality - Concept, Factors affecting the development of Personality, Child Rearing Practices, Self-Concept
• Adjustment, Behavioral problems, Defense Mechanisms, Mental Health
• Methods and Approaches of Child Development – Introspection, Observation, Interview, Case study, Experimental, Rating Scales, Anecdotal Records, Questionnaire, Cross-sectional and Longitudinal
• Developmental Tasks and Hazards

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

Pedagogical Concerns

• Teaching and its Relationship with Learning and Learners
• Learners in Contexts: Situating learners 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, Co-operative & Collaborative learning
• Individual and Group learning: Issues and concerns with respect to organizing learning in the classroom like Study habits, Self-learning and Learning to learn skills
• Organizing learning in heterogeneous classroom groups - Socio-economic background, Abilities and Interests
• Paradigms of organizing Learning - Teacher centric, Subject centric and Learner centric
• Theory of Instruction - Bruner
• 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 a good facilitator
• Learning Resources - Self, Home, School, Play, Community, Technology
• Classroom Management: Role of the student, teacher, the Leadership style of the teacher, Creation of a non-threatening learning environment, Managing behaviour problems, Guidance & Counseling, Child Abuse, Punishment and its legal implications, Rights of a child, Time Management
• The 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