Tripura TET Syllabus 2023

Name of the Subject

Number of Questions

Number Of Marks

Child Development and Pedagogy

30 MCQs

30 Marks

Language I (English)

30 MCQs

30 Marks

Language II (Bengali)

30 MCQs

30 Marks

Mathematics

30 MCQs

30 Marks

Environmental Studies

30 MCQs

30 Marks

Total

150 MCQs

150 Marks

Name of the Subject

Number of Questions

Number Of Marks

Child Development and Pedagogy (Compulsory)

30 MCQs

30 Marks

Language I (English): Compulsory

30 MCQs

30 Marks

Language II (Bengali): Compulsory

30 MCQs

30 Marks

• For Mathematics and Science Teachers: Mathematics and Science
• For Social Studies Teachers: Social Studies

60 MCQs

60 Marks

Total

150 MCQs

150 Marks

Subjects

Syllabus

Part 1:
Child Development and Pedagogy
(30 MCQs)

Child Development & Learning

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

Concepts of inclusive education and understanding children with special needs:

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

 Learning and pedagogy:

1. Process of thinking and learning of children.
2. Basic approaches to learning
3. Alternative concepts of learning in children
4. Cognition and emotions
5. Motivation and learning
6. Class-room management
7. Punishment and its legal implications, rights of a child.
8. Guidance and counselling: concept, nature and types.

Part 2:
Language 1:
English
(30 MCQs)

Language Comprehension

1. Two passages, one from prose and the other from poetry with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and test of vocabulary.
2. Determiners
3. Subject-verb
4. Concord
5. Interrogatives
6. Framing Yes/No & 'WH' questions
7. Question tags
8. Prepositions
9. Tense and time
10. Phrasal verbs
11. Gerunds & Participle
12. Auxiliary verbs

 Pedagogy for language development:

1. Learning and acquisition.
2. Principles of language teaching.
3. Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas in oral
4. and written form.
5. Challenges of teaching language in diverse classrooms: language difficulties, errors and disorders.
6. Introduction to English Phonology: vowels and consonants, syllable division.
7. Language skills
8. Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency in LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing). 
9. Teaching-learning materials.
10. Strategies for teaching children with special needs (CWSN).
11. Remedial teaching.

Part 3:
Language 2:
Bengali
(30 MCQs)

OR
Language 2:
Kokborok
(30 MCQs)

Teachers’ Recruitment Board, Tripura has allowed the candidates to choose from Bengali and Kokborok language in their TET exam.

The complete Tripura TET Bengali Syllabus and the Tripura TET Kokborok Syllabus are given in the PDFs links above in the article.

Part 4:

Mathematics
(30 MCQs)

Concepts

1. Geometry
2. Shapes, spatial understanding, solids, perimeter of rectilinear figures, area of rectangles, practical problems, surface area and volume of solids (sphere, cube, rectangular, parallelepiped), practical problems.
3. Measurement
4. Numbers
5. Arithmetic
6. Fractions
7. Weight
8. Time
9. Data handling
10. Patterns
11. Money

Pedagogical Issues In Mathematics

1. Language of Mathematics
2. Community Mathematics
3. Nature of mathematics
4. Methods of teaching mathematics
5. Instructional material in mathematics
6. Evaluation, concept of continuous and comprehensive evaluation. Problems in teaching mathematics
7. Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching.
8. Diagnostic and remedial teaching.

Part 5:

Environmental Studies

(30 MCQs)

1. Concept and scope of environmental studies
2. Significance of environmental studies.
3. Integrated approach in environmental studies.
4. Scope and relation of environmental studies to science and social science.
5. Approaches of presenting concepts.
6. Environmental studies and environmental education.
7. Learning principles.
8. Activities.
9. Discussion.
10. Health and Hygiene
11. Shelters: Types of shelters, characteristics of animal shelters.
12. Types of vehicles used, railways, waterways and airways.
13. Water: Types of water resources, conservation of water resources, water pollution, cause and prevention of water pollution, impact of water pollution on environment, flood and drought.
14. Composition of air, causes and impact of air pollution on environment, greenhouse effect and global warming.
15. Different types of soil, soil erosion, impact of soil pollution and its prevention.

Subjects

Syllabus

Part 1:
Child Development and Pedagogy
(30 MCQs)

Child Development (Elementary School Child)

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

Concept Of Inclusive Education And Understanding Children With Special Needs

1. Addressing learners from diverse background
2. Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties
3. Addressing the needs of exceptional children

 Learning And Pedagogy

1. Basic process of teaching and learning.
2. Creative learning situations
3. Child as a problem solver and a scientific investigator. 
4. Alternative conceptions of learning in children
5. Cognition
6. Emotion
7. Motivation
8. Motivation and learning
9. Factors contributing to learning
10. Personality and adjustment

Part 2:
Language 1:
English
(30 MCQs)

Language Comprehension

1. Two passages, one from prose/drama and the other from poetry with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and test of vocabulary.
2. Gerunds
3. Error identification
4. Modals
5. Degree of comparison
6. Transformation of sentences
7. Concord
8. Question tags
9. Prepositions
10. Tense and time
11. Determiners
12. Phrasal verbs

PEDAGOGY FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

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

Part 3:
Language 2:
Bengali
(30 MCQs)

OR
Language 2:
Kokborok
(30 MCQs)

Teachers’ Recruitment Board, Tripura has notified that the candidates can choose from Bengali or Kokborok language in their TET exam.

The complete Tripura TET Bengali Syllabus and the Tripura TET Kokborok Syllabus are given in the PDFs links above in the article.

Part 4: A

Mathematics & Science
(60 MCQs)

For Math/Science Teachers

Mathematics (30 Mcqs)

1. Number System: whole numbers, positive and negative integers, rational numbers-their properties, fractions and decimals.
2. Algebra: Formation of algebraic expressions, idea about monomials, binomials and Polynomials ,
3. addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of algebraic expressions.
4. Arithmetic: Square and square root, cube and cube root, ratio and proportion, inverse proportion
5. as proportionality with the reciprocal, percentage, profit and loss, simple and compound interest.
6. Geometry: basic geometrical ideas (2-D), understanding elementary shapes (2-D and 3-D).
7. Lines and angles, triangles and its properties, congruence of triangles, classification of quadrilaterals as rectangle, square, rhombus, parallelogram, trapezium, and their various
8. Mensuration: Perimeter and area of rectangle, square, parallelogram, rhombus, trapezium, triangle and circle.
9. Data handling: Graphical representation, representing numerical data, as pictographs, bar graphs,
10. double bar graph and pie chart, representing numerical data as frequency table, mean, median, mode and their applications.

Science (30 Mcqs)

1. Food and Nutrition
2. Micro organism and activities
3. Circulation and conduction
4. Ecosystem and Natural Resources
5. Agriculture and Tools
6. Pollution: types of pollution and pollutants, greenhouse effect, global warming, acid rain, impacts of different types of pollutants 
7. Motion, Force and Pressure: rest and motion, graphical presentation of straight line motion,
8. Newton laws of motion and their application, 
9. Thermal Physics: heat and temperature, thermal conductivity, radiation, application of thermal
10. insulators, thermometer.
11. Sound: characteristic of sound, application of sound, intensity of sound, sound pollution.
12. Electrostatics, current electricity and magnetism, frictional electricity, electroscope, earthling,
13. lightning, electric current and circuits, electric cell, heating, chemical and magnetic effects of
14. current, magnets, properties of magnet, applications, earth’s magnetism.
15. Optics: reflection in plane and spherical mirrors, image in lenses.
16. Solar System: sun, planets, satellite, comets, galaxy.
17. Metal and Non-metal
18. Geography as social study and as science.
19. The Solar System.

Part 4 B

Social Studies
(60 MCQs)

For Social Studies Teachers

Geography (15 Mcqs)

1. Globe, Latitudes and Longitudes.
2. Interior of the Earth.
3. Rocks: types and characteristics.
4. Geography as social study and as science.
5. The Solar System.
6. Our changing earth
7. Geomorphic process
8. Atmosphere
9. Hydrosphere
10. Economic geography
11. Agriculture
12. Industry
13. Human Environment
14. Physical Environment
15. Pollution of air and water, deforestation and its impact, ozone depletion and green-house effect.
16. Concept of hazard and disaster, industrial hazard, biological hazard, wildfire hazard, landslides.
17.  India as a physical unit (relief drainage). 
18. Forest, mineral and power resources of Tripura

History (15 Mcqs)

1. Civilization
2. Sixteen Mahajanapada and the First Empire
3. Sultans of Delhi
4. Beginning of the Mughal Rule
5. The Establishment of Company Power in India
6. The National Movement
7. India after Independence
8.  Tribal Society and Festivals of Tripura

Social And Political Life (15 Mcqs)

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

 Pedagogical Issues In Social Studies (15 Mcqs)

1. Concept and Nature of Social Studies/ Social Science.
2. Nature, Scope and Significance of Social Science Curriculum