MP TET

Concept of child development and its relation to learning; development and the factors that influence it; theories of child development; mental health and behavioural problems of children; influence of heredity and environment; socialisation processes: the social world and children (teachers, parents, peers); Piaget, Pavlov, Kohlberg and Thorndike: structure and critical nature; concept of child-centred and progressive education; critical nature of the structure of intelligence and its measurement, multi-dimensional intelligence; personality and its measurement; language and thought; gender as a social construct, role of gender, gender bias and educational practices; understanding differences among learners on the basis of individual differences, language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.; assessment for learning and assessment of learning, difference between school-based assessment, continuous and comprehensive evaluation: nature and practices (beliefs); construction of appropriate questions at the level of learner preparation to promote learning in the classroom, critical thinking and assessment of the availability of the learner

Concept of inclusive education and understanding children with special needs: identifying learners from diverse backgrounds including marginalised and deprived groups; identifying the needs of children facing learning difficulties, 'disability' etc.; identifying gifted, creative and specially-abled learners; problem children: identification and diagnostic aspects; juvenile delinquency: causes and types

How children think and learn, why and how children fail to achieve success in school performance; basic processes of teaching and learning, children's learning strategies, learning as a social process, social context of learning; child as problem solver and scientific investigator; alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children's errors as significant steps in the learning process; cognition and emotions; motivation and learning; factors contributing to learning - personal and environmental; guidance and counselling; aptitude and its measurement; memory and forgetting

Language comprehension: two unseen passages are given, one prose passage (from a play, one-act play, incident, essay, story etc.) and one poetry passage; questions on comprehension, explanation, grammar and oral proficiency; the prose passage may be based on literary, scientific, social-harmony or current-affairs topics

Pedagogy of language development: language learning and acquisition; principles of language teaching; role of listening and speaking in language teaching, functions of language, how children use language; role of grammar in learning oral and written expression; challenges of children at different levels in language teaching, difficulties, errors and sequencing; assessment of the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing); teaching-learning material in the classroom, textbook, communication media (visual and audio material), multi-class resources; re-teaching

Comprehension - 15 questions: two unseen prose passages (discursive, literary, narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability

Pedagogy of language development - 15 questions: learning and acquisition of language; principles of second language teaching; language skills - listening, speaking, reading, writing; role of listening and speaking, function of language and how children use it as a tool; the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form; challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom, language difficulties; teaching-learning materials, textbook, multi-media materials, multi-lingual resource of the classroom; evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: listening, speaking, reading and writing; remedial teaching (re-teaching)

Language comprehension: two unseen passages, one prose passage (from a play, essay, story etc.) and one poetry passage; questions on comprehension, explanation, grammar and oral proficiency; the prose passage may be based on literary, social-harmony or current-affairs topics

Pedagogy of language development: language learning and acquisition; principles of language teaching; role of listening and speaking, functions of language, how children use language; role of grammar in oral and written expression; challenges of children at different levels, difficulties, errors and sequencing; assessment of the four language skills; teaching-learning material, textbook, communication media (visual and audio), multi-class resources; re-teaching; re-teaching

Questions on language comprehension (15 questions): two unseen passages (informative, literary, descriptive, scientific); questions on comprehension, grammar and linguistic proficiency

Developmental and teaching methods of language (15 questions): learning and remembering; principles of language teaching; importance of listening and speaking in language, function of language and the use of language skills by children; critical review of the role of grammar in verbal and written expression of language and thought; teaching language while accepting the challenges of the difficulties, mistakes and disorders of children of different educational ability in the class room; language skills; speaking, listening, reading and writing for the proficiency of language and for the testing of its use; teaching-learning material, textbooks and multi-media material, help of the different languages available in the class room; remedial teaching. Syllabus content: types of prose - story, informative essays, drama, dialogue; types of poetry - lyric; grammar - noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, kinds, gender, tense, sentence and idioms, singular-plural, opposite words, kinds of poetry; letter and application writing; unseen passage; essay writing

Number system: reading and writing numbers above 1000, understanding place value of numbers above 1000, and the four fundamental operations; addition and subtraction - up to five digits; multiplication - of 2 or 3 digit numbers; division - dividing a number of two digits into a number of four digits; concept of fractions, simplest form, like and unlike fractions - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, equivalent fractions, writing fractions as decimals and decimals as fractions; relation between large and small units of length, weight and volume in common use; converting large units into small units and small into large; finding the volume of a solid object in known units; problems related to money, length, weight, volume and time intervals using the four basic mathematical operations; converting metres into centimetres and centimetres into metres; patterns: understanding and extending number patterns, making patterns and generalising them on the basis of operations, identifying patterns of triangular numbers and square numbers; geometry: basic geometrical concepts, ray, line segment, angle (classification of angles), triangle, classification of triangles (1) on the basis of sides (2) on the basis of angles, the sum of the three angles of a triangle is 180 degrees; identification and understanding of centre, radius and diameter of a circle; relation among circle, radius and diameter, symmetrical figure, understanding parallel and perpendicular lines on the basis of perimeter; finding the area and perimeter of simple geometrical figures (triangle, rectangle, square) by taking the given figure as a unit; identification of 2D figures of perimeter; collecting various data related to daily life; reading time of a clock in hours and minutes and expressing as AM and PM; relation of 24-hour clock with 12-hour clock; calculating time intervals of events in daily life; identifying patterns in multiplication and division; geometry patterns based on symmetry; drawing conclusions from data shown through bar graphs

Developing thinking and reasoning power through mathematics teaching; place of mathematics in the curriculum; language of mathematics; developing the capacity to prepare and use suitable environment-based teaching aids for effective teaching; developing the capacity for new methods of assessment, diagnostic testing and re-teaching; the capacity to use new methods of mathematics teaching in classroom teaching

Relation with family and society - care of the elderly, the sick, adolescents and children with special needs and our sensitivity towards them; our animals and birds - our pet animals and birds, goods-carrying animals, living beings and animals in our surroundings and the effect of pollution on them; our trees and plants - local trees and plants, interdependence of trees, plants and human beings, protection of forests, their need and importance, effect of pollution on trees and plants; our natural resources - major natural resources, their conservation, traditional and renewable and non-renewable sources of energy

Games, exercise and yogasana; family festivals, various means of recreation - books, stories, puppet play, fairs, cultural programmes and celebration of days in school; various occupations, industries and businesses

Various shelters of animals, birds and human beings, the need for shelter and the characteristics of shelter for a healthy life; safety of local buildings, public property, national heritage and their care; good housing and the materials used in its construction, calculating construction material; cleanliness of toilets, cleanliness of the environment and good habits

Need for food, components of food; importance of fruits and vegetables, fruits and vegetables according to plant parts; health-giving combinations of edible things; food of different age groups and the right time to take it; measures for cleanliness and safety of food for good health; protection of food resources

Need for clean water and clean air for life; local weather, water cycle, effect of climate change and our role in climate change; sources of water, safe storage and conservation and ways of nutrition; diseases caused by infected air and water, their treatment and prevention, other infectious diseases; pollution of air, water and land and protection from it, various waste materials and their management, proper disposal; protection from and measures to avoid disasters such as earthquake, flood and drought, disaster management; scientific management of natural resources - proper exploitation of resources, consumption of diesel and petroleum and nutrition

Relation between soil, water, seed and crop, organic and chemical fertilisers; various crops and their producing areas; agricultural work and equipment necessary for crop production

Felling of forests and urbanisation, effect on ecological balance; scientific causes and remedies of ozone depletion, acid rain, global warming, greenhouse effect etc.; use of polythene and plastic and their harmful waste; effects of the use of fossil fuels; disaster management

Introduction to space scientists and their experiences of living in space; scientific facts of life in space, possibilities of life; space vehicles, space explorations and predictions

Concept of environmental studies and its need; importance of environmental studies, integrated environmental education; principles and responsibility of environmental education; relation of environmental education to science and social science; activities and tasks for clarification of concepts; field trips, experimental work, project work and their importance; learning through discussion, group discussion, presentation and group teaching arrangements; continuous comprehensive evaluation - asking questions during teaching, giving opportunities for oral and written expression, use of worksheets and anecdotal records, developing child portfolios, teaching arrangements through case study and personal profile; application of teaching material/supplementary material in environmental education; developing the capacity to find environmental problems of the local environment and their solutions

Language comprehension: two unseen passages are given, one prose passage (from a play, one-act play, incident, essay, story etc.) and the other a poetry passage; questions on comprehension, explanation, grammar and oral proficiency; the prose passage may be based on literary, scientific, social-harmony or current-affairs topics

Two short passages followed by short answer type questions

One word substitution; opposites; synonyms; phrases; idioms/proverbs

Articles; modals; determiners; noun/pronoun; adjective/adverb; narration; prepositions; tenses; transformation of sentences; voices

Current affairs - events of national and international importance; history of India and Indian national movements; Indian and world geography - physical, social, economic; Indian polity and governance: constitution, political system, Panchayati Raj, public issues, articles, rights etc.; economic and social development - sustainable development, poverty, inclusion, demographics, social sector initiatives etc.; general issues on environment, ecology, biodiversity, climate change; general science; Indian culture; national and international sports; history, geography and political science of Madhya Pradesh; economic and social development of Madhya Pradesh

A) Reasoning ability - general mental/analytical ability, verbal/logical reasoning, relations and hierarchies, analogies, assertion, truth statements, coding and decoding, situational reasoning, series and patterns involving words and alphabets. B) Numerical ability - two and three dimensional/Venn diagram based questions, number patterns, series, sequences, basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, order of magnitude etc.), arithmetic aptitude, data interpretation (charts, graphs or tables, data sufficiency etc.), direction sense, analysis and interpretation in various contexts

Concept of child development and its relation to learning; development and the factors that influence it; principles of child development; mental health and behavioural problems of children; influence of heredity and environment; socialisation processes: the social world and children (teachers, parents, peers); Piaget, Pavlov, Kohlberg and Thorndike: structure and critical nature; concept of child-centred and progressive education; critical nature of the structure of intelligence and its measurement, multi-dimensional intelligence; personality and its measurement; language and thought; gender as a social construct, role of gender, gender bias and educational practices; understanding differences among learners on the basis of individual differences, language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.; assessment for learning and assessment of learning, difference between school-based assessment, continuous and comprehensive evaluation: nature and practices

How children think and learn, why and how children fail to achieve success in school performance; basic processes of teaching and learning, children's learning strategies, learning as a social process, social context of learning; child as problem solver and scientific investigator; alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children's errors as significant steps in the learning process; cognition and emotions; motivation and learning; factors contributing to learning - personal and environmental; guidance and counselling; aptitude and its measurement; memory and forgetting

Identifying learners from diverse backgrounds including marginalised and deprived groups; identifying the needs of children facing learning difficulties, 'disability' etc.; identifying gifted, creative and specially-abled learners; problem children: identification and diagnostic aspects; juvenile delinquency: causes and types

Punctuation marks and their use; sentence construction, correct sentence formation, change of sentence, kinds of sentence (on the basis of structure, meaning and voice), sentence sense; idioms and proverbs and their use in sentences; speech, dialect, mother tongue, official language, national language

Definition of poetry, kinds of poetry (prabandh kavya, muktak kavya), qualities of poetry; power of words; metres: matrik chhand, varnik chhand, kundaliya, ghanakshari, mandakranta, chhappay, kavitt, savaiya (Matiram, Durmil); figures of speech: yamak, shlesh, vyajastuti, vyajninda, vibhavana, vishesokti, bhrantiman, sandeh, virodhabhas, apahnuti; introduction to rasa, its parts and kinds

Prose/poetry passage (title, explanation, summary)

Essay on social, cultural, current problems, and on reflective, emotional and light topics

Formal, informal letters, letters for the solution of current problems, and letters to the editor

Hindi poetry and its development: development of poetry literature, general introduction to the Adikal, Bhaktikal and Ritikal with literary introduction of poets (works, poetic characteristics, emotional and artistic aspects); main trends of the modern period - Chhayavad, Rahasyavad, Pragativad, Prayogvad, Nai kavita with general introduction and literary introduction of poets (works, poetic characteristics, emotional and artistic aspects)

Various forms of prose literature (essay, drama, story) and their general introduction, introduction of writers (works, language style)

Language learning and acquisition; principles of language teaching; role of listening and speaking in language teaching, functions of language, how children use language; role of grammar in oral and written expression; challenges of children at different levels in language teaching, difficulties, errors and sequencing; assessment of the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing); teaching-learning material, textbooks, communication media (visual and audio material), multi-class resources; re-teaching

Reading comprehension: two passages (factual + literary/discursive) of 200 words each followed by short answer type questions; a poem of about 15 lines followed by short questions related to figures of speech, forms of poetry; interpret tabular and diagrammatic presentation of information. Vocabulary: one word substitution, opposites, synonyms, phrases, idioms/proverbs, word formation. Functional grammar: tenses, modals, determiners, articles, voices, narration, prepositions, clauses, transformation of sentences. Writing: a factual description (in about 40-50 words) of any event or incident, e.g. a report or a process based on given input/advertisements and notices/designing or drafting posters; essay; writing letter/application based on given inputs (business or official letters, letters to editors, personal/informal letters, application for a job)

B.1 Learning and acquisition - need for learning English, objectives of teaching English, qualities of a good language teacher, methods and approaches (grammar translation, direct, bilingual, communicative, structural, integrated); B.2 language skills - listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, importance of listening and reading, importance of speaking and writing; B.3 perspective and role of grammar in language learning - parts of speech, punctuation marks, framing questions, vocabulary and word formation (synonym and antonym, homophones, one word substitution, changing word category); B.4 challenges of teaching language - planning and implementation (teaching of prose, grammar, composition, poetry); B.5 evaluation - learning enhancement programme, active learning methodology, CCE, remedial teaching; B.6 teaching-learning materials - textbook preparing exercises based on the textbooks, multimedia materials (charts, flash cards, models, newspaper cuttings, CD, radio, tape recorder)

(a) Word forms: Rama, kavi, bhanu, lata, pitr, nadi, vadhu, matr, phala, vari, atman, sarva, tad, etad, yad, idam, asmad, yushmad; (b) verb forms: lat, lrt, lot, lan and vidhilin (five lakaras), parasmaipada and atmanepada; (c) sandhi: sandhi and its kinds, svara sandhi, vyanjana sandhi, visarga sandhi and their kinds, splitting and joining of sandhi words; (d) samasa: definition and kinds of samasa, vigraha, compound words; (e) pratyaya: krt pratyaya (ktva, lyap, tumun, kta, ktavatu, shatr, shanach, tavyat, aniyar); (f) taddhita pratyaya: an, dhak, matup, ini, tal, thakarthi pratyaya: tap, dip; (g) avyaya: punah, api, pura, adhuna, hyah, shvah, adya, kutra, yatra, tatra, sarvatra, yada, tada, sarvada, upari, yatha, tatha

Sanskrit essay writing, informal letters and application letters; (a) general introduction to Veda, Vedanga, Purana, Upanishad; (b) general introduction to Ramayana and Mahabharata; introduction to representative works of Sanskrit (acquaintance with the works of Bhasa, Kalidasa, Shudraka and Bhavabhuti); general introduction to karaka and vibhakti; translation of Hindi sentences into Sanskrit; various types of questions on an unseen Sanskrit prose and unseen verse, based on Hindi translation and the lesson passage: answer in one sentence, answer in a full sentence, adjective-noun, synonym/antonym

Language learning and acquisition; principles of language teaching; role of listening and speaking in language teaching, functions of language, how children use language; role of grammar in oral and written expression; challenges of children at different levels, difficulties, errors and sequencing; assessment of the four language skills; teaching-learning material, textbooks, communication media (visual and audio), multi-class resources; evaluation, diagnostic testing and remedial teaching

Forms of prose (nasr): letter writing (maktub nigari), dastan, adabi tarikh, short stories, reportage, inshaiya, tanz-o-mizah, travelogue, sketches; comprehension passages: memoirs, autobiographical essays, proverbs

Ghazals, masnavi, qasida, marsiya, nazm, rubai; tawil nazm: Ali Sardar Jafri; 'Waqt ka tarana'

Huruf shamsi, huruf qamri, harkat and sakanat, ramuz-e-auqaf, sabiqe lahiqe, sifat, tazad, tajahul-e-arifana, harf-e-ataf, mizaj-e-mursil, proverbs, use of idioms in sentences, tajnis (tam, zaid, naqis), kinaya, laf-o-nashr

Essay writing

Letter/application (khat aur darkhwast)

Natural numbers, whole numbers and integers - identification and understanding; Euclid's division lemma; understanding of rational numbers and operations on them, irrational numbers; application of laws of exponents for exponents and rational exponents; polynomials and rational expressions

Algebraic expressions and operations on them; ratio and proportion, unitary method, percentage, direct and inverse variation, compound interest; ratio and proportion, instalments, LCM; linear equation of one variable in one unknown; linear equations in two variables, algebraic method of solving linear equations

Basic geometrical concepts, area; properties of triangles, Pythagoras theorem; angles; concept of symmetry; circles; similar triangles

Introduction to trigonometry and its application

Construction of triangles, division of a line segment; construction of quadrilaterals

Area of a rectangular path; surface area and volume; area of a circle, quadratic equation, arithmetic progressions

Bar graph; histogram; calculation of mean, median and mode; frequency, cumulative frequency, pie chart (circle diagram); drawing a frequency polygon

The universe

Measurement - time, temperature, length, area, volume and mass

States of matter, properties of matter, methods of separation of substances, metals and non-metals, atoms and molecules, elements, compounds and mixtures, chemical symbols, formulae and equations, acids, bases, salts and their properties

Force, motion and pressure

Work, energy and machines

Heat and temperature

Developing thinking and reasoning power through mathematics teaching; place of mathematics in the curriculum; language of mathematics; developing the capacity to prepare and use suitable environment-based teaching aids for effective teaching; developing the capacity for new methods of assessment, diagnostic testing and re-teaching

The universe

Measurement - time, temperature, length, area, volume and mass

States of matter, properties of matter, methods of separation of substances, metals and non-metals, atoms and molecules, elements, compounds and mixtures, chemical symbols, formulae and equations, acids, bases, salts and their properties

Sources of food, components of food, preservation of edible things, food and health - structural organisation in plants and animals

Classification, structure, biological processes, adaptation, human physiology, body functions, cell, structure, heredity and development

Force, motion and pressure

Work, energy and machines

Heat and temperature

Physical and chemical changes, carbon and its allotropes, hydrocarbons

Light, sound

Magnets, electricity and electric current

Natural resources

Food production and management

Environment

Objectives of science; developing a scientific attitude; acquainting learners with important scientific facts and principles; developing various science-related skills; observation, experimentation, exploration; providing latest information on science subjects; developing the capacity to prepare and use suitable environment-based teaching aids for effective teaching; developing the capacity for new methods of assessment, diagnostic testing and re-teaching

Sources of knowing history, development of early man, Stone Age, Harappan and Vedic civilisations, Jain and Buddhist religion, Maurya, Gupta and Harsha periods, contact with foreign countries and relations of India, its impact on social and economic life; beginning of the medieval period and music as a source of knowing history, invasions of Muhammad Ghori and Muhammad Ghaznavi, the Delhi Sultanate - Khilji dynasty, Tughlaq dynasty and Lodi dynasty, social, religious and economic conditions in the context of the Sultanate period, brief introduction of the Mughal period (major rulers, social, economic and religious life and music, painting and architecture), decline of the Mughals; Vijayanagar and Bahmani empires, rise of the Maratha and Sikh powers; arrival of European trading companies in India, their mutual conflicts for power, success of the British East India Company and imperial expansion, the Freedom Struggle of 1857, religious and social renaissance, establishment of the Indian National Congress, aims, struggle and importance, liberalism and moderatism, national movement - non-cooperation, civil disobedience, Quit India movement; contribution of revolutionaries in the national movement, attainment of independence and partition; contribution of Madhya Pradesh in the freedom movement

Major events of independent India - Kashmir problem, Chinese war of 1962, India-Pakistan wars of 1965 and 1971, emergency in India, rise of India as a greater power; civics: family, society, community, national symbols, local self-government (rural and urban bodies); features of the Indian Constitution, fundamental rights and duties of citizens, child and human rights, Human Rights Commission, the federal system, Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, Union executive, President, Vice-President, Council of Ministers, the Supreme Court and High Courts: formation, powers (functions), State Government, Governor and State Council of Ministers, Election Commission: functions and powers, election process; working of democracy, importance of political parties in democracy; main electoral challenges of democracy: illiteracy, communalism, regionalism, unemployment, terrorism, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, backward classes, constitutional protection; India's foreign policy and relations with neighbouring countries, United Nations and India's contribution

Solar system, latitudes and longitudes, globe and maps; lithosphere: movements of the earth, seasons, change, modifying internal and external forces and their functions, soil conservation; structure of the atmosphere, air pressure; hydrosphere: waves, currents, tides, rainfall, major oceans; India - location, extent, physical structure, drainage, climate, soil, natural vegetation, wildlife, mineral and industry power resources, major crops, means of transport, population; all continents - latitudinal and longitudinal extent, relief structure, drainage, natural vegetation, wildlife, mineral and industry power resources, major crops, means of transport; environmental pollution, causes and measures, industrial waste and its management, disaster management

Economic development, economic challenges before India, economic system and the issue of globalisation and the financial system; Five Year Plans and agricultural development of India; rural economy, food security, service sector, consumer protection

Nature and concept of social science; classroom processes, activities and discussions; development of critical thinking