SECTION A : CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY  

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 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 

Data representation – mean, mode and median and standard deviation


SECTION B : LANGUAGE I (ODIA )

GROUP A (PEDAGOGY)

Unit - 1:- Learning Odia  

·        Aims and objectives of learning Odia  

·        Principlesof teaching mother tongue

·        Development of language skills (speaking, reading, writing and listening)

Unit-2:- Teaching Language

·        Intensiveand Extensive reading skills at upper primary level

·        Teachingof non-detailed and detailed texts (prose, poetry)

·        Teachingof composition and creative writing

·        Teachingof grammar

·        Challenges of teaching Odia  

Unit-3:- Assessment of Language

·        Assessmentof learning Odia  language listening,speaking, reading and writing

·        Planningand designing achievement tests and other tools for assessment

GROUP B (CONTENT)

Unit – 4 :- Elements of Odia  

·        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  

·        Odia: Fakir Mohan Senapati, Gangadhar Meher, Radhanath Ray, Surendra Mohanty, Gopinath Mohanty


SECTION C : LANGUAGE II (ENGLISH)

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

·        Basicskills of language (listening, speaking, reading, writing), interdependence ofskills

·        Teaching of prose, poetry and composition

·        Teachingof creative writing

·        Principlesof language teaching

·        Challengesof teaching English as second language at upper primary level

Unit – 3 :- Assessment of learning English Language

·        Assessmentof comprehension and language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing)

Unit-4:- Comprehension
GROUP B (CONTENT)

·        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 E : SCIENCE  

GROUP A (PEDAGOGY)

Unit-1:- Nature of Science

·        Aimsand objectives of teaching learning science at upper primary stage

Unit - 2 :- Methods and Approaches

·        Methods: Observation, Experimentation, Discovery, Project and Problem-solving

·        Approaches:Integrated approach, constructivists approach

Unit-3:- Evaluation in Science

·        Toolsand 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

·        Physicaland chemical change in matters

·        Force,motion, friction, pressure in solid, liquid and gases

·        Electricityand current, chemical effects of electric current

·        Refractionand reflection of light

·        Solarsystem and planets

Unit-5:- Life Science

·        Biologicaladaptation among living beings

·        Respirationand transpiration

·        Soil and forest resource

·        Cellstructure and function of cell organelle

·        Micro-organisms

·        Adolescencein human being

SECTION F: SOCIAL STUDY (ONLY FOR SOCIAL STUDY TEACHER)

GROUP A (PEDAGOGY)

Unit-1 :- Aims and Objectives of Teaching Social Studies

·        Importance of teaching-learning Social Sciences at upper primary stage

·        Aimsand objectives of teaching-learning Social Sciences

·        Specificobjectives 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

·        Toolsand technique for assessment of learning in Social Science


GROUP B (CONTENT)

Unit – 4 :- History and Political Science

Unit – 5 :- Political Science

Unit – 6 :- Geography


SECTION D : MATHEMATICS (ONLY FOR MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE TEACHER)

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

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

·        Mensuration (area and circumference of circle, higher order problems relating to area of square, triangle, rectangle, parallelogram & trapezium, Pythagorean theorem)