Bal Vikas For CTET-TET 2024 4.2

Bal Vikas and Shiksha Shastra (Teaching Art or Teaching Methods)
TET Syllabus
(A) Child Development (Primary school children)

• Concept of development and its relationship with learning,
• Principles of child development,
• Genetics and the impact of the environment,
• Socialization processes: Social world and children (teacher, parent, and peers),
• Piaget, Kolberg, and Vygotsky: Construction and analyzed perspective,
• Concepts of child-centered and progressive education,
• Analyzed perspective of intellectual development,
• Multi-dimensional intelligence,
• Language and thinking in social construction as gender, gender roles, gender bias, and educational behavior,
• Understanding diversity based on individual differences among students in terms of language, caste, gender, community, religion, etc.,
• Assessment for learning and difference between assessment for learning and assessment of learning, school-based assessment, continuous and comprehensive evaluation: Perspective and behavioral preparation level assessment of students (in the classroom | for teaching and reflective thinking, and preparing relevant questions for student achievements.

• Understanding the needs of students from various backgrounds including non-benefitted and disadvantaged students from various backgrounds,
• Understanding learning-related problems of challenging students,
• Understanding the needs of gifted, creative, unique talented students,

• How do children think and learn, how and why children fail to succeed in school performance,
• Basic processes of learning and teaching, students learning strategies: Learning through social activities; social context of learning,
• A child as a problem solver and a scientific investigator,
• Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding errors in children as important stages in the learning process,
• Barriers and sensitivities,
• Motivation and learning,
• Contributing factors in learning - personal and environmental.