Tripura TET Syllabus 2022 (PDF) Paper 1 & 2 Exam Pattern Download

· For Social Studies Teachers: Social Studies

Part 1: Child Development and Pedagogy

• Growth, development and maturation;
• Principles of development of childhood;
• Theories of Piaget, Kohlberg, Carol, Chomsky, Vygotsky and Rogers in relation to child development;
• Concept of child-centric and activity-based education; Individual differences;
• Theories of intelligence;
• Gender and education;
• Classroom management; Mental health of a child;
• Understanding differences among children based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion;
• Distinction between assessment for learning and assessment of learning;
• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness level of learners for enhancing learning and critical thinking.

• Concept of exceptional children and children with special needs (CWSN);
• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived;
• Concept of learning disability;
• Addressing the gifted, creative, specially abled learners (mentally retarded and physically challenged).

• Process of thinking and learning of children;
• Basic approaches to learning;
• Alternative concepts of learning in children;
• Cognition and emotions;
• Motivation and learning;
• Class-room management;
• Punishment and its legal implications, Rights of a child;
• Guidance and counseling: concept, nature and types.

Part 2: Language I (English)

• Two passages, one from prose and the other from poetry with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and test of vocabulary;
• Determiners;
• Subject-verb;
• Concord;
• Interrogatives;
• Framing Yes/No & ‘WH’ questions;
• Question tags;
• Prepositions;
• Tense and time;
• Phrasal verbs;
• Gerunds & Participle;
• Auxiliary verbs

• Learning and acquisition;
• Principles of language teaching;
• A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas in oral and written form;
• Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms: language difficulties, errors and disorders;
• Introduction to English Phonology: vowels and consonants, syllable division;
• Language skills;
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency in LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing);
• Teaching-learning materials;
• Strategies for teaching children with special needs (CWSN);
• Remedial teaching.

Part 3: Language 2

• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
• Language Skills
• Learning and acquisition
• Pedagogy of Language Development verbally and in written form;
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas
• Comprehension
• Principles of language Teaching
• Remedial Teaching

Part 4: Selective Subjects

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

• Concept and scope of environmental studies;
• Significance of environmental studies;
• Integrated approach in environmental studies;
• Scope and relation of environmental studies to science and social science;
• Approaches of presenting concepts;
• Environmental studies and environmental education;
• Learning principles;
• Activities;
• Discussion;
• Health and Hygiene;
• Shelters: Types of shelters, characteristics of animal shelters;
• Types of vehicles used, railways, waterways and airways;
• Water: Types of water resources, conservation of water resources, water pollution, cause and prevention of water pollution, the impact of water pollution on the environment, flood and drought;
• Composition of air, causes and impact of air pollution on the environment, greenhouse effect and global warming;
• Different types of soil, soil erosion, the impact of soil pollution and its prevention.

• Diversity
• The First Farmers and Herders
• Globe
• Sultans of Delhi
• Social and Political Life
• Resources: Types-Natural and Human
• Local Government
• Human Environment: settlement, transport, and communication
• The Earliest Societies
• Geography
• Early States
• Social Justice and the Marginalized
• History
• Making a Living
• New Kings and Kingdoms
• Creation of an Empire
• Understanding Media
• Unpacking Gender
• Regional Cultures
• Air
• Government
• Culture and Science
• Planet: Earth in the solar system
• The Judiciary
• Water
• The First Cities
• Social Change
• When, Where, and How
• The Constitution
• Political Developments
• Architecture
• Democracy
• Parliamentary Government
• State Government
• Environment in its totality: natural and human environment

Part 1: Child Development and Pedagogy

• Concept of development and its relation with learning;
• Growth and development, stages of development, infancy, childhood and adolescence;
• Principles of development of childhood;
• Influence of heredity and environment on the development of the child, the role of the teachers;
• Emotion: characteristics, emotional maturity, emotional intelligence, emotional quotient (EQ);
• Motivation: concept, types and importance, theories of motivation;
• Factors contributing to learning: personal and environmental;
• Language and thought, different stages of language development, the role of the teacher in the process of language development;
• Gender as a social construct, gender roles, gender-bias and educational practices, gender equality, teachers’ role.

• Addressing learners from diverse background;
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties;
• Addressing the needs of exceptional children

• Basic process of teaching and learning; Creative learning situations;
• Child as a problem solver and a scientific investigator;
• Alternative conceptions of learning in children;
• Cognition; Emotion; Motivation; Motivation and learning;
• Factors contributing to learning; Personality and adjustment

Part 2: Language 1 (English) Syllabus

• Two passages, one from prose/drama and the other from poetry with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and test of vocabulary;
• Gerunds;
• Error identification;
• Modals;
• Degree of comparison;
• Transformation of sentences;
• Concord;
• Question tags;
• Prepositions;
• Tense and time;
• Determiners;
• Phrasal verbs

• Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms – language difficulties, errors and disorders;
• Introduction to English Phonology-vowels and consonant classification as per IPA, syllable division;
• Teaching-learning materials: textbooks, multimedia materials, ICT, multilingual resources of the classroom;
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency in LSRW

Part 3: Language 2 (Bengali/ Kokborok) Syllabus

• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
• Language Skills
• Learning and acquisition
• Pedagogy of Language Development verbally and in written form;
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas
• Comprehension
• Principles of language Teaching
• Remedial Teaching

• Nature of Mathematics
• Quadrilaterals
• Exponentiation
• Mathematics – Trends and Developments
• Learning Materials in Mathematics
• Pedagogy
• Mathematics Learning – Evaluation
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Learning of Mathematics – Strategies and Methods
• Percentage
• Average
• Geometry
• Algebra
• Arithmetic

• Cell
• Energy
• Pollution
• Human nervous system
• Animal nutrition
• Biodiversity
• Basic concepts of force
• Magnetism
• Transparent and opaque objects
• Plant reproduction
• Ecosystem
• Agriculture
• Germination of seed
• Cardiovascular system
• Cellular equilibrium
• Diseases

Part 5: Social Studies Syllabus

• Globe, Latitudes and Longitudes;
• Interior of the Earth;
• Rocks: types and characteristics;
• Geography as a social study and as a science;
• The Solar System; Our changing earth;
• Geomorphic process;
• Atmosphere;
• Hydrosphere;
• Economic geography;
• Agriculture;
• Industry;
• Human Environment;
• Physical Environment;
• Pollution of air and water, deforestation and its impact, ozone depletion and greenhouse effect;
• Concept of hazard and disaster, industrial hazard, biological hazard, wildfire hazard, landslides;
• India as a physical unit (relief drainage);
• Forest, mineral and power resources of Tripura.

• Civilization;
• Sixteen Mahajanapada and the First Empire;
• Sultans of Delhi;
• Beginning of the Mughal Rule;
• The Establishment of Company Power in India;
• The National Movement;
• India after Independence;
• Tribal Society and Festivals of Tripura.

• Diversity in Indian Society; Democracy, Government, Legislature, Executive, Judiciary, the Constitution of India, Parliamentary;
• System of Government, Central Government, State Government, Local Self-Government in Tripura, Election Process in India

• Concept and Nature of Social Studies/ Social Science;
• Nature, Scope and Significance of Social Science Curriculum