WB TET Syllabus 2015 – Download WBSSC TET Syllabus

WB TET Syllabus

WB TET Syllabus 2015:  WB TET is nothing but a west Bengal teacher eligibility test. Recently West Bengal Board has released a WB TET 2015 Exam Notification. Number candidates had applied for the WB TET Exam. Applicants who are preparing for the West Bengal TET Exam are searching for the WB tet syllabus. For them we are providing WB TET Syllabus 2015 to Download. Candidates can easily download the WB TET Syllabus from here. Otherwise you can also get this from Official Website: westbengalssc.com.

WBSSC TET Syllabus

TET is the mandatory examination India to apply for teacher posts. The west Bengal government released the TET notification to recruit applicants searching for teaching jobs.  WB TET examination contains 2 papers paper I for elementary and paper II for primary teacher posts interested candidates can apply for both the posts. For them we are providing the WB TET Syllabus here. The candidate can easily download the WB TET Syllabus pdf.

WB TET Syllabus FOR Structure & Content

Paper I (for classes I to V) Primary Stage: I.

a. Child Development and Pedagogy                

• Concept of development and its relationship with learning
•  Principles of the development of children
•  Influence of Heredity & Environment
•  Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
•  Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
•  Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
•  Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
•  Multi Dimensional Intelligence
•  Language & Thought
•  Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice
•  Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.
• Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
• 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 

• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners

c. Learning and Pedagogy 

• How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance.
• Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.
• Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
• Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process.
• Cognition & Emotions
• Motivation and learning
• Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental

II. Language I:

a. WB TET Syllabus  for Language Comprehension 

• 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)

b. WB TET Syllabus  for Pedagogy of Language Development 

• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of language Teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Critical perspective on 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, errors and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
• Teaching- learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

III. Language – II:

a. Comprehension

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

b. Pedagogy of Language Development

•  Learning and acquisition
•  Principles of language Teaching
•  Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
•  Critical perspective on 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, errors and disorders
•  Language Skills
•  Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
•  Teaching – learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
•  Remedial Teaching

IV. WB TET Syllabus  for Mathematics:

• Geometry
• Shapes & Spatial Understanding
• Solids around Us
• Numbers
• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Division
• Measurement
• Weight
• Time
• Volume
• Data Handling
• Patterns
• Money

b. Pedagogical issues:

• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• Evaluation through formal and informal methods
• Problems of Teaching
• Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
• Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching

V. WB TET Syllabus  for Environmental Studies 30 Questions a) Content 15 Questions

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:

• Concept and scope of EVS
• Significance of EVS, integrated EVS
• Environmental Studies & Environmental Education
• Learning Principles
• Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
• Approaches of presenting concepts
• Activities
• Experimentation/Practical Work
• Discussion
• CCE
• Teaching material/Aids Problems

Paper II (for classes VI to VIII) Elementary Stage:

I. WB TET Syllabus  for Child Development and Pedagogy 

a. Child Development (Elementary School Child):

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

b. WB TET Syllabus  for Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs:

• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners

c. Learning and Pedagogy:

• How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance.
• Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.
• Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
• Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process.
• Cognition & Emotions
• Motivation and learning
• Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental

II. WB TET Syllabus  for Language I. 

a. Language Comprehension 15 Questions 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)

b. Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions

• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of language Teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Critical perspective on 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, errors and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
• Teaching- learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

III. WB TET Syllabus  for Language – II 

a.Comprehension 15 Questions Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability

b. Pedagogy of Language Development 

• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of language Teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Critical perspective on 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, errors and disorders  Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
• Teaching – learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

IV. WB TET Syllabus for Mathematics and Science:

(i) Mathematics 

a. Content:

• Number System
• Knowing our Numbers
• Playing with Numbers
•  Whole Numbers
•  Negative Numbers and Integers
•  Fractions
•  Algebra
•  Introduction to Algebra
•  Ratio and Proportion
•  Geometry
•  Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)
•  Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
•  Symmetry: (reflection)
•  Construction (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)
•  Mensuration
•  Data handling

b. Pedagogical issues:

•  Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
•  Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
•  Language of Mathematics
•  Community Mathematics
•  Evaluation
•  Remedial Teaching
•  Problem of Teaching

(ii) Science: 

a. Content 

I. Food

• Sources of food
• Components of food
• Cleaning food

II. Materials

•  Materials of daily use

III. The World of the Living

IV. Moving Things People and Ideas

V. How things work

•  Electric current and circuits
•  Magnets

VI. Natural Phenomena

VII. Natural Resources

b. Pedagogical issues

•  Nature & Structure of Sciences
•  Natural Science/Aims & objectives
•  Understanding & Appreciating Science
•  Approaches/Integrated Approach
•  Observation/Experiment/Discovery (Method of Science)
•  Innovation
•  Text Material/Aids
•  Evaluation – cognitive/psychomotor/affective
•  Problems
•  Remedial Teaching

V. Social Studies/Social Sciences 60 Questions a) Content 40 Questions

I. History:

•  When, Where and How
•  The Earliest Societies
•  The First Farmers and Herders
•  The First Cities
•  Early States
•  New Ideas
•  The First Empire
•  Contacts with Distant lands
•  Political Developments
•  Culture and Science
•  New Kings and Kingdoms
•  Sultans of Delhi
•  Architecture
•  Creation of an Empire
•  Social Change
•  Regional Cultures
•  The Establishment of Company Power
•  Rural Life and Society
•  Colonialism and Tribal Societies
•  The Revolt of 1857-58
•  Women and reform
•  Challenging the Caste System
•  The Nationalist Movement
•  India After Independence

II. Geography

• Geography as a social study and as a science
•  Planet: Earth in the solar system
•  Globe
•  Environment in its totality: natural and human environment
•  Air
•  Water
•  Human Environment: settlement, transport and communication
•  Resources: Types-Natural and Human
•  Agriculture

III. WB TET Syllabus  for Social and Political Life

•  Diversity
•  Government
•  Local Government
•  Making a Living
•  Democracy
•  State Government
•  Understanding Media
•  Unpacking Gender
•  The Constitution
•  Parliamentary Government
•  The Judiciary
•  Social Justice and the Marginalised

b. Pedagogical issues:

•  Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies
•  Class Room Processes, activities and discourse
•  Developing Critical thinking
•  Enquiry/Empirical Evidence
•  Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies
•  Sources – Primary & Secondary
•  Projects Work
•  Evaluation.

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