UPTET

Meaning, need and scope of child development, stages of child development - physical development, mental development, emotional development, language development, development of expressive ability, development of creativity and creative ability; the bases of child development and factors affecting them - heredity, environment (family, social, school, communication media)

Meaning of learning (acquisition) and the factors affecting it, effective methods of learning; Thorndike's main laws of learning and their importance in learning; the main theories of learning and their practical utility in classroom teaching: Thorndike's trial and error theory, Pavlov's conditioned response theory, Skinner's operant conditioning theory, Kohler's insight theory, Piaget's theory, Vygotsky's theory; the learning curve - meaning and types, meaning and causes of the plateau in learning and how to remove it

Meaning and aims of teaching, communication, principles of teaching, maxims of teaching, teaching techniques, new methods of teaching (approaches), micro-teaching and basic skills of teaching

Meaning, identification, types and remedies of educational inclusion, e.g. disadvantaged groups, language, religion, caste, region, gender, physical ability (visually impaired, hearing impaired and speech/orthopaedically impaired), mental ability; equipment, material, methods, TLM and attitudes necessary for inclusion; tools and techniques necessary for assessing the learning of included children; special teaching methods for included children, e.g. Braille; guidance and counselling for included children - meaning, objectives, types, methods, need and scope; departments/institutions that help in counselling: Psychology Lab U.P. Prayagraj, divisional psychology centre (at division level), district hospital, DIET trained mentor, supervision and inspection mechanism, community and school support committees, government and non-government organisations; importance of guidance and counselling in child learning

How children think and learn, how and why children fail to succeed in school performance; basic processes of teaching and learning, children's learning strategies, learning as a social activity, social context of learning; the child as a problem solver and a 'scientific investigator'; alternative concepts of learning in children, understanding the child's 'errors' as important steps in the learning process; understanding and sensibilities; motivation and learning; factors contributing to learning - personal and environmental

Unseen passage; the Hindi alphabet (vowels, consonants); recognising words with and without matras by the joining of letters; sentence formation; knowledge of the mutual differences of all Hindi sounds, especially sh, s, sh, b, v, dh, d, ng, kshya, chh, n, and the sound of na; difference between all sounds of the Hindi language, letters, anusvara, anunasika and chandrabindu; words formed with conjunct letters and nasal sounds; all kinds of matras; punctuation marks, e.g. comma, semicolon, full stop, question mark, exclamation mark, use of the marks; antonyms, synonyms, words with sounds similar to those of tukant, atukant; kinds of noun, pronoun, verb and adjective; number, gender and tense; identification of and difference between pratyaya, upsarga, tatsam, tadbhav, deshaj words; meanings of proverbs and idioms; sandhi: (1) swar sandhi - dirgha sandhi, guna sandhi, vriddhi sandhi, yan sandhi, ayadi sandhi, (2) vyanjan sandhi, (3) visarga sandhi; voice, samas and kinds of figures of speech; works of poets and writers

Acquisition and attainment of learning; principles of language teaching; role of listening and speaking: function of language and how the child uses it as a tool; the decisive reference to the role of grammar in the acquisition of a language for communicating ideas in oral and written form; challenges of teaching a language in a different class; difficulties, errors and disorders of language; language skills; assessing language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing; teaching - learning materials: textbooks, multi-media material, multilingual resources of the class; remedial teaching

Unseen passage; the sentence (subject and predicate; kinds of sentences); parts of speech (kinds of noun, pronoun, adverb, adjective, verb, preposition, conjunction); tenses - present, past, future; articles; punctuation; word formation; active and passive voice; singular and plural; gender

Unseen passage; knowledge of the skills of the language; information on famous writers and poets, their lives and works; the different forms of literature, e.g. essay, short story, marsiya, masnavi, dastan etc. with definition and proverbs; practice of correct spelling and pronunciation; knowledge of noun, pronoun, adjective, mutazad words, wahid, jama, mozakkar, monnas etc.; sana-at (tashbih, istiara, talmih, murat-un-nazir) etc.; knowledge of idioms and proverbs; awareness of social problems such as environmental pollution, gender inequality, illiteracy, education for peace, disability, discrimination etc.; understanding the social and moral values in poems, stories, hikayats and memoirs

Unseen passage; nouns: akaranta masculine, akaranta feminine, akaranta neuter, ikaranta feminine, ukaranta masculine, rikaranta feminine; introduction to Sanskrit names of the house, family, environment, animals, birds and household articles; pronouns; verbs; use of Sanskrit words for the main parts of the body; indeclinables; sandhi - sandhi of simple words and their splitting (dirgha sandhi); numbers - knowledge of numbers in Sanskrit; gender, number, pratyahara, kinds of vowels and consonants, anusvara and anunasika consonants; vowel, consonant and visarga sandhis, samasa, upsarga, synonyms, antonyms, karaka, pratyaya and voice; works of poets and writers

Acquisition and attainment of learning; principles of language teaching; role of listening and speaking: function of language and how the child uses it as a tool; the decisive reference to the role of grammar in the acquisition of a language for communicating ideas in oral and written form; challenges of teaching a language in a different class; difficulties, errors and disorders of language; language skills; assessing language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing; teaching - learning materials: textbooks, multi-media material, multilingual resources of the class; remedial teaching

Numbers and addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of numbers; LCM and HCF; addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions; decimals - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; unitary method; percentage; profit and loss; simple interest; geometry - geometrical figures and surfaces, angles, triangle, circle; money (rupee-paisa); measurement - time, weight, capacity, length and temperature; perimeter - triangle, rectangle, square, quadrilateral; calendar; data; volume, capacity - cube, cuboid; area - rectangle, square; railway and bus timetable; presentation and interpretation of data

Nature of mathematical/logical thinking; understanding the patterns of children's thinking and reasoning power and the strategies of meaning-making and learning; place of mathematics in the curriculum; language of mathematics; community mathematics; assessment through formal and informal methods; problems of teaching; error analysis and relevant aspects of learning and teaching; diagnostic and remedial teaching

Family; food, health and cleanliness; shelter; trees, plants and animals; our environment; fair; people and businesses linked to local occupations; water; transport and communication; sports and sportsmanship; India - rivers, mountains, plateaus, forests, transport, continents and oceans; our State - rivers, mountains, plateaus, forests, transport; Constitution; governance - local self-government, gram panchayat, nagar panchayat, zila panchayat, nagar palika, nagar nigam, district administration, State governance system, legislature, judiciary, executive, national festivals, national symbols, voting, national unity; environment - need, importance and utility, environmental conservation, social responsibility towards the environment, schemes run for environmental conservation

Concept and scope of environmental studies; importance of environmental studies, integrated environmental studies; environmental studies and environmental education; learning theories; scope and relationship of science and social science; approaches to presenting concepts; activities; experiment/practical work; discussion; continuous comprehensive evaluation; teaching material/equipment; problems

Meaning, need and scope of child development, stages of child development - physical development, mental development, emotional development, language development, development of expressive ability, development of creativity and creative ability; the bases of child development and factors affecting them - heredity, environment (family, social, school, communication media)

Meaning of learning (acquisition) and the factors affecting it, effective methods of learning; Thorndike's main laws of learning and their importance in learning; the main theories of learning and their practical utility in classroom teaching: Thorndike's trial and error theory, Pavlov's conditioned response theory, Skinner's operant conditioning theory, Kohler's insight theory, Piaget's theory, Vygotsky's theory; the learning curve - meaning and types, meaning and causes of the plateau in learning and how to remove it

Meaning and aims of teaching, communication, principles of teaching, maxims of teaching, teaching techniques, new methods of teaching (approaches), micro-teaching and basic skills of teaching

Meaning, identification, types and remedies of educational inclusion, e.g. disadvantaged groups, language, religion, caste, region, gender, physical ability (visually impaired, hearing impaired and speech/orthopaedically impaired), mental ability; equipment, material, methods, TLM and attitudes necessary for inclusion; tools and techniques necessary for assessing the learning of included children; special teaching methods for included children, e.g. Braille; guidance and counselling for included children - meaning, objectives, types, methods, need and scope; departments/institutions that help in counselling: Psychology Lab U.P. Prayagraj, divisional psychology centre (at division level), district hospital, DIET trained mentor, supervision and inspection mechanism, community and school support committees, government and non-government organisations; importance of guidance and counselling in child learning

How children think and learn, how and why children fail to succeed in school performance; basic processes of teaching and learning, children's learning strategies, learning as a social activity, social context of learning; the child as a problem solver and a 'scientific investigator'; alternative concepts of learning in children, understanding the child's 'errors' as important steps in the learning process; understanding and sensibilities; motivation and learning; factors contributing to learning - personal and environmental

Unseen passage; noun and kinds of noun; pronoun and kinds of pronoun; adjective and kinds of adjective; verb and kinds of verb; voice - active, passive, impersonal; all sounds of the Hindi language, conjunct letters, conjunct consonants, difference between anusvara and chandrabindu; alphabetical order, synonyms, antonyms, words with many meanings, words with similar sense; kinds of indeclinables; use of anusvara and anunasika; use of different forms of ra; sentence formation (simple, compound and complex sentences); identification and use of punctuation marks; use of number, gender and tense; tatsam, tadbhav, deshaj and foreign words; upsarga and pratyaya; word pairs; samasa, samasa vigraha and kinds of samasa; idioms and proverbs; verbs transitive and intransitive; sandhi and kinds of sandhi (vowel, consonant and visarga sandhis); alankar (anupras, yamak, shlesh, upma, rupak, utpreksha, atishyokti)

Learning and acquisition; principles of language teaching; role of listening and speaking: function of language and how the child uses it as a tool; the critical reference to the role of grammar in the acquisition of a language for communicating ideas in oral and written form; challenges of teaching a language in a different class; difficulties, errors and disorders of language; language skills; assessing language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing; teaching - learning materials: textbooks, multi-media material, multilingual resources of the class; remedial teaching

Unseen passage; nouns and its kinds; pronoun and its kinds; verb and its kinds; adjective and its kinds and degrees; adverb and its kinds; preposition and its kinds; conjunction and its kinds; interjection; singular and plural; subject and predicate; negative and interrogative sentences; masculine and feminine gender; punctuations; suffix with root words; phrasal verbs; use of somebody, nobody, anybody; parts of speech; narration; active voice and passive voice; antonyms and synonyms; use of homophones; use of request in sentences; silent letter in words

Unseen passage; knowledge of the skills of the language; understanding and distinguishing the different forms of literature, e.g. hamd, ghazal, qasida, marsiya, masnavi, geet etc.; knowledge of the lives of different poets and writers and their works; knowing the service and importance of the Urdu language in the shared culture of the country; understanding of nouns and their kinds, verb, adjective, pronoun, mutazad words, masculine, feminine (tazkir-o-tanis), opposites; knowledge of correct spelling and i'rab; knowing idioms and proverbs; knowledge of sana-at; being aware of political, social and moral issues and expressing one's views on them

Unseen passage; sandhi - vowel, consonant; indeclinables; samasa; use of gender, number and tense; upsarga; synonyms; antonyms; karaka; alankar; pratyaya; voice; nouns - knowledge of the forms of all words with all vibhaktis and numbers: masculine words, feminine words, neuter words, akaranta masculine, akaranta feminine, akaranta neuter, ukaranta masculine, ukaranta feminine, ukaranta neuter, ikaranta masculine, ikaranta feminine, ikaranta neuter, rikaranta masculine; pronouns; adjectives; roots; numbers

Learning and acquisition; principles of language teaching; role of listening and speaking: function of language and how the child uses it as a tool; the critical reference to the role of grammar in the acquisition of a language for communicating ideas in oral and written form; challenges of teaching a language in a different class; difficulties, errors and disorders of language; language skills; assessing language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing; teaching - learning materials: textbooks, multi-media material, multilingual resources of the class; remedial teaching

Natural numbers, whole numbers, rational numbers; integers, quotient, LCM and HCF; square root; cube root; identities; algebra, concept - variables, constants, powers of variables; addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of algebraic expressions, coefficients of terms of algebraic expressions, like and unlike terms, concept of degree of expressions, expressions of one, two and three terms; linear equations in two variables, quadratic equation, linear equation; construction of parallel lines, quadrilateral, triangle; circle and cyclic quadrilateral; tangents to a circle; commercial mathematics - ratio, proportion, percentage, profit and loss, simple interest, compound interest, tax, barter system; banking - current currency, bill and cash memo; statistics - classification of data, pictograph, mean, median and mode, frequency; pie and bar charts, graph of ungrouped data; probability graph, bar graph, line graph and composite bar graph; Cartesian plane; mensuration; exponents

Nature of mathematical/logical thinking; place of mathematics in the curriculum; language of mathematics; community mathematics; evaluation; remedial teaching; problems of teaching

Science in daily life, important discoveries, importance, human science and technology; fibres and clothing - from fibres to fabrics (process); living and non-living things - the living world, classification of living things, classification of plants on the basis of animals and plants, classification of animals, adaptation in living things, changes in animals and plants; structure and function of animals; microorganisms and their classification; from cell to organ system; adolescence, disability; food, health, cleanliness and disease, crop production, nitrogen cycle; nutrition in animals; nutrition in plants, reproduction, useful plants; respiration, excretion, useful animals in living things; measurement; electric current; magnetism; motion, force and machines; energy; computer; sound; static electricity; light and optical instruments; air - properties, composition, need, utility, ozone layer, greenhouse effect; water - need, utility, sources, properties, pollution, water conservation; matter, groups of substances, separation of substances, structure and nature of matter; changes in the neighbourhood, physical and chemical changes; acid, alkali, salt; heat and temperature; man-made things - plastic, glass, soap, clay; minerals and metals; carbon and its compounds; alternative sources of energy

Nature and structure of science; natural science - aim and objectives; understanding and appreciating science; approach/integrated approach; observation/experiment/investigation (method of science); innovation; curriculum material/supporting material; evaluation; problems; remedial teaching

Sources of knowing history; Stone Age culture, Chalcolithic culture, Vedic culture; India of the sixth century BC; early states of India; establishment of the Maurya empire in India; post-Mauryan India, Gupta period, Rajput period, Pushyabhuti dynasty, kingdoms of South India; arrival of Islam in India; establishment, expansion and disintegration of the Delhi Sultanate; the Mughal empire, culture, decline; arrival of European powers in India and establishment of British rule; expansion of Company rule in India; renaissance in India, rise of nationalism in India; freedom movement, attainment of independence, partition of India; challenges of independent India

We and our society; rural and urban society and living; rural and urban self-government; district administration; our Constitution; road safety; Central and State governance system; democracy in India; defence of the country and foreign policy; the global community and India; civil defence; disability

Earth in the solar system, globe - determining places on earth, movements of the earth; mapping, the four spheres of the earth, lithosphere - structure of the earth, major landforms of the earth; India in the world, physical features of India, soil, vegetation and wildlife, climate of India, economic resources of India, transport, trade and communication; Uttar Pradesh - location in India, political divisions, climate, soil, vegetation and wildlife, agriculture, minerals, industries, population and urbanisation; landforms, causes of change (internal and external factors); atmosphere, hydrosphere; major natural regions of the world and life of people; mineral resources, industries; disaster and disaster management

Environmental and natural resources and their utility; ecological balance; use of resources; effect of population growth on the environment, environment-pollution; waste management, disasters, environmentalists, awards in the field of the environment, Environment Day, environment calendar

Health and cleanliness; nutrition, diseases and measures to prevent them, first aid; preservation of food items; pollution; digestion-related diseases and common illnesses; home management, art of stitching, art of washing, art of cooking, art of weaving, art of embroidery

Physical education, exercise, yoga and pranayama; marching, national sports and awards; minor and recreational games, international games; games and our food; first aid; ill effects of intoxicants and ways of avoiding them, importance of sports management and planning

Knowledge of notes (swar); introduction to ragas; knowledge of laya and tala in music; ragas with teevra madhyam; vandana geet / flag song; patriotic songs, national songs, bhajans; forest conservation / tree plantation; action songs

Soil, soil formation, land reclamation, tools, seeds, fertilisers; irrigation and irrigation implements; gardening, school garden; hedges and creepers, ornamental plants, cultivation of seasonal flowers, fruit cultivation, kitchen garden, vegetable cultivation; propagation, vegetative propagation; fruit examination, fruit preservation - making jam, jelly, sauce, pickle; climatology; crop cycle

Classroom processes, activities and discussion; developing critical thinking; enquiry / empirical evidence; problems of teaching social science / social studies; project work; evaluation