HP TET Application Form 2025- Eligibility, Syllabus, Admit Card, Exam Dates, Result

1. Concept of development and its relationship with learning
2. Principles of the development of children
3. Influence of Heredity & Environment
4. Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
5. Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
6. Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
7. Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
8. Multi Dimensional Intelligence Language & Thought
9. Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice
10. Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.
11. Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
12. Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.

b) Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs

1.      1.Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived

2.      Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.

3.      3.Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners

c) Learning and Pedagogy

1.      How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance.

2.      Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.

3.      Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’

4.      Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process.

5.      Cognition & Emotions

6.      Motivation and learning

7.      Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental

Reading unseen passages – two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)

1.      Learning and acquisition

2.      Principles of language Teaching

3.      Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool

4.      Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form

5.      Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders

6.      Language Skills

7.      Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing

8.      Teaching- learning materials: Textbook, multi media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom

9.      Remedial Teaching

Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on comprehension, grammar and verbal

Ability

b)     Pedagogy of Language Development

1.      Learning and acquisition

2.      Principles of language Teaching

3.      Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool

4.      Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form;

5.      Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders

6.      Language Skills

7.      Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing

8.      Teaching – learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom

9.      Remedial Teaching

1.Geometry

2.Shapes & Spatial Understanding

3/Solids around Us

4.Numbers

5.Addition and Subtraction etc.

1.Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning

and learning

2.Place of Mathematics in Curriculum

3.Language of Mathematics

4.Community Mathematics

5.Evaluation through formal and informal methods

6.Problems of Teaching

I. Family and Friends:

1.1 Relationships

1.2 Work and Play

1.3 Animals

1.4 Plants

II. Food

III. Shelter

IV. Water

V. Travel

VI. Things We Make and Do

b) Pedagogical Issues

1.Concept and scope of EVS

2.Significance of EVS, integrated EVS

3.Environmental Studies & Environmental Education

Learning Principles

4.Scope & relation to Science & Social Science

5.Approaches of presenting concepts

Activities

6.Experimentation/Practical Work

7.Discussion

8.CCE

9.Teaching material/Aids Problems

1.History

2.Geography

3.Social and Political Life

b)Pedagogical issues

1.Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies

2.Class Room Processes, activities and discourse

3.Developing Critical thinking

4.Enquiry/Empirical Evidence

5.Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies

6.Sources – Primary & Secondary

7.Projects Work