Goa TET Exam Syllabus 2023 for Paper-I & II, Exam Pattern, Exam Date

Goa TET Exam Syllabus 2023, Paper-I & II, Exam Pattern, Exam Date: State Council of Educational Research and Training, Goa is a respective authority that circulates the Goa TET examination every year.  Authority invites online application form eligible candidates who want to become a teacher of Primary level class or upper primary level class. Authority will release official notification on their official website.  Goa TET 2023 Application Form can be expected in the month of September 2023. Candidate worried about Goa TET 2023 Exam or wants to know about Goa TET Exam Syllabus 2023, Paper-I & II, Exam Pattern, Exam Date will get same from this web post.  Goa TET 2023 Syllabus includes following topics

Goa TET 2023 Application Form Dates

Goa TET Events	Dates (Tentative)
Starting Date of Goa TET Application Form	September 2023 Third Week
Last Date to Apply	October 2023 Third Week
Goa TET Admit Card Release Date	November 2023 First Week
Goa TET 2023 Exam Date	November 2023 Third  Week
Answer Key Release Date	December 2023 First Week
Goa TET Result	To be Notify

Paper-I Syllabus (Class I to Class V)

Child Development and Pedagogy

(A): Child Development (Primary School)

Principles of growth and development of children (up to 11 years)

1. Causes of individual differences Heredity & Environment
2. Social and Emotional development, Piaget’s stages of cognitive development
3. Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
4. Concept and types of Intelligence, Multiple Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence
5. Measurement of Intelligence
6. Concept of Personality, Development of Personality in Childhood
7. Adjustment and Mental Health

(B): Learning

1. How children think and learn
2. Concept and nature of learning, learning styles
3. Theories and principles of Conditioning, Cognitivism and Constructivism
4. Factors affecting Learning: Motivation, Attention, Memory, Emotion etc.
5. Transfer of Learning: Concept, Types, Methods
6. Information Processing and thinking: Critical thinking, problem solving, divergent thinking, creativity and innovation. 

(C): Curriculum, Pedagogy and Evaluation   

1. Concept and Principles of Curriculum
2. Types of Curriculum
3. Factors affecting Curriculum Transaction
4. Concept and Forms of Evaluation
5. Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
6. Different type of tests, Marking, grading of scholastic and co-scholastic achievement of children.
7. Principles of test construction and characteristics of a good test
8. Question Bank, Blue Print and Item Analysis 

Language I (English)

(A): Reading unseen passage – 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

1. Principles, aims and objectives of English language teaching 
2. Approaches, Methods and techniques of teaching English
3. Learning and acquisition of English language skills: Pronunciations, Stress and Modulation
4. Communicative and writing skills in English
5. Role of grammar in learning English language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form
6. Challenges of teaching English language: Prose, Poetry, Composition, Letter Writing, creative writing etc.
7. Evaluating English language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
8. Teaching – learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom 
9. Diagnostics Test and Remedial Teaching 

Language-II Marathi/Konkani

(A): Comprehension

1. Reading unseen passages – two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and ve4rbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive) 

(B): Pedagogy of Language Development

1. Principles, aims and objectives of language teaching
2. Approaches, Methods and Techniques of teaching language
3. Learning and acquisition of language skills: Pronunciations, Stress and Modulation
4. Role of listening and speaking: function of language and how children use it as a tool 
5. Communicative and Writing skills
6. Role of grammar in learning language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form
7. Challenges of teaching language: Prose, Poetry, Composition, letter writing, creative writing etc.
8. Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
9. Teaching – learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom • Diagnostic Test and Remedial Teaching  

Mathematics

(A): Content

1. Geometry
2. Shapes & Spatial Understanding 
3. Solids around Us
4. Numbers
5. Addition and Subtraction
6. Multiplication 
7. Division
8. Measurement
9. Weight
10. Time
11. Volume
12. Data Handling
13. Patterns
14. Money 

Pedagogical Issues

1. Aims and objectives of teaching Mathematics
2. Place of Mathematics in school Curriculum
3. Methods of teaching Mathematics: inductive, deductive, analytic, synthetic, heuristic
4. Approaches and techniques involved in teaching of Mathematics
5. Competency based teaching in Mathematics (class-I-IV)
6. Concept Attainment Model of teaching in Mathematics
7. Challenges of Teaching Mathematics
8. Teaching – learning materials: Textbook, Mathematical Kit, Models, other aids
9. Evaluation through formal and informal methods
10. Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching • Diagnostic Test and Remedial Teaching  

Environmental Studies

(A): Content

1. Family and Friends:
2. Relationships
3. Work and Play
4. Animals
5. Plants
6. Food Shelter
7. Water
8. Travel
9. Things we Make and Do 

Pedagogical Issues

Approaches to teaching EVS: Activity based Exploration, Discovery, Experimentation / Practical Work, Reporting Teaching – learning materials: Textbook, Computer aided Learning, Models, other locally relevant resources etc.

Paper-II Syllabus (Class VI to Class VIII)

Child Development and Pedagogy

(A) Child Development (Elementary School)                            

1. Meaning and Nature and Scope of Educational Psychology
2. Concept and Principles of Growth and Development and its relationship with learning
3. Characteristics of growth and development of children (Physical, Emotional, Social)
4. Causes of Individual differences: Heredity & Environment,
5. Social and Emotional development, Paget’s stages of cognitive development
6. Concepts of child- centred and progressive education
7. Concept and types of Intelligence, Multiple Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence
8. Measurement of Intelligence
9. Concept of Personality, Development of Personality in Childhood
10. Adjustment and Mental Health at home and school
11. Self-Concept, attitude, interest, values

(B) Learning

1. How children think and learn
2. Concept and nature of Learning, Learning styles
3. Laws of Learning
4. Theories and principles of Conditioning, Cognitivism and Constructivism
5. Factors affecting Learning: Concept, Types, Methods
6. Information Processing and thinking: Critical thinking, problem solving, divergent thinking, creativity and innovation 

(C) Curriculum, Pedagogy and Evaluation

1. Concept and Principles of Curriculum
2. Bases of Curriculum Development: Models of Curriculum Development
3. Types of Curriculum Development
4. Factors affecting Curriculum Transaction
5. Concept and Forms of Evaluation
6. Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
7. Different type of tests: Marking, grading of scholastic and co-scholastic
8. Achievement of children
9. Principles of test construction and characteristics of a good test
10. Question Bank, Blue Print and Item Analysis 

Language-I (English)

(A): Language Comprehension

Reading Unseen Passage

(B) Pedagogy of Language Development

1.  Principles, aims and objectives of English language teaching 
2. Approaches, Methods and techniques of teaching English
3. Learning and acquisition of English language skills: Pronunciations, Stress and Modulation
4. Role of listening and speaking: function language and how children use it as a tool 
5. Communicative and writing skills in English
6. Role of grammar in learning English language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form
7. Challenges of teaching English language; Prose, Poetry, composition, letter writing, creative writing etc.
8. Evaluating English language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
9. Teaching – learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
10. Diagnostic Test and Remedial Teaching 

Language-II Marathi/Konkani

(A): Comprehension

Reading Unseen Passage

(B): Pedagogy of Language Development

1. Principles, aims and objectives of language teaching
2. Approaches, Methods and techniques of teaching language
3. Learning and acquisition of language skills: Pronunciations, Stress and Modulation
4. Communicative and writing skills
5. Role of grammar in learning language: Prose, Poetry, composition, letter writing, creative writing etc.
6. Teaching – learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
7. Diagnostic Test and Remedial Teaching 

Mathematics and Science

(A): Content

Number System

1. Knowing our Numbers
2. Playing with Numbers
3. Whole Numbers
4. Negative Numbers and Integers
5. Fractions 

Algebra

1. Introduction to Algebra
2. Ratio and Proportion 

Geometry

1. Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)
2. Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
3. Symmetry: (reflection)
4. Construction

Menstruation 

Data handling   

Pedagogical issues  

(A): Aims and objectives of teaching Mathematics

1. Place of Mathematics in school Curriculum
2. Methods of teaching Mathematics: inductive, deductive, analytic, synthetic, heuristic
3. Approaches and techniques involved in teaching of Mathematics
4. Competency based teaching in Mathematics (class-I-IV)
5. Concept Attainment Model of teaching in Mathematics
6. Challenges of Teaching Mathematics
7. Teaching – learning materials: Textbook, Mathematical Kit, models, other aids
8. Evaluation through formal and informal methods
9. Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
10. Diagnostic Test and Remedial Teaching    

 (B): Science 

Content

1. Food
2. Sources of food
3. Components of food
4. Cleaning food
5. Materials
6. Materials of daily use
7. The World of the Living 
8. Moving Things People and Ideas  
9. How things work
10. Electric Current and Circuits
11. Magnets
12. Natural Phenomena 
13. Natural Resources 

(C) Pedagogical issues

1. Nature, aims and objectives of teaching Sciences
2. Correlation of Science with other subjects in the curriculum
3. Methods and teaching Strategies of Science: Lecture, Demonstration. Heuristic, Inductive-deductive, Project etc.
4. Observation/Experiment/Discovery (Methods of Science)
5. Teaching Resources: Textbooks, charts, models, specimen, use of mass media, use of ICT
6. Science Laboratory, Science Club, Science Exhibition
7. Scientific Attitude
8. Diagnostic Test and Remedial Teaching 

(D): Social Studies/ Social Science

Content             

History

1. When, Where and How
2. The Earliest Societies
3. The First Cities
4. Early States
5. New Ideas
6. The First Empire
7. Contacts with Distant lands
8. Political Developments
9. Culture and Science
10. New Kings and Kingdom
11. Sultans of Delhi
12. Architecture
13. Creation of an Empire Social Change
14. Regional Cultures
15. The Establishment of Company Power
16. Rural Life and Society                                    
17. Colonialism and Tribal Societies
18. The Revolt of 1857-58
19. Women and reform
20. Challenging the Caste System
21. The Nationalist Movement
22. India After Independence 

Geography                                     

1. Geography as a social study and as a science
2. Planet: Earth in the Solar system
3. Globe
4. Environment in its totality: natural and human environment Air Water
5. Human Environment: Settlement, transport and Communication
6. Resources: Types- Natural and Human
7. Agriculture 

 Social and Political Life       

1. Diversity
2. Government
3. Local Government
4. Making a Living Democracy
5. State Government 
6. Understanding media
7. Unpacking Gender
8. The Constitution
9. Parliamentary Government
10. The Judiciary
11. Social Justice and the Marginalized 

Pedagogical Issues

1. Nature, aims and objectives of teaching Social Studies (History, Geography, Social and Political Life)
2. Correlation of Social Studies with other subjects in the curriculum
3. Methods and Teaching Strategies of Social studies: Lecture, Story Telling, Dramatization, Discussion, Brain Storming, Field trips, project methods etc
4. Observation/Excursion/Regional (Method of social studies)
5. Teaching Resources: Textbooks, charts, models, News Paper, Historical Lab, Geography room, Museum, Exhibition
6. Practical Geography
7. Infusion of Local History
8. Diagnostic Test and Remedial Teaching