OTET EXAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY FULL UNIT 1 / OTET CLASS CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY

SECTION A : CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY - 30 MARKS

Unit – I :Child Development (Focus on Upper Primary School Children)

Unit – II :


Features of Physical, Cognitive, Social, Emotional & Moral development during pre-adolescence and adolescence

Effect of Heredity and Environment on development

Needs and problems of adolescents

Individual differences among learners


How children learn – observation, initiation, trial, error, experience Learning as social activity Rote learning and meaningful learning Factors affecting learning Strategies for promoting lessons Addressing learners from diverse background including disadvantaged and deprived Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties and impairment Addressing the talented, creative and specially abled learners Curriculum Teaching – Learning Approaches and Evaluation Teacher-centred, learner centred and learning-centred approaches Principles of curriculum organization Teaching learning aids Continuous comprehensive assessment of learning, planning and designing achievement tests, rating scale, check list Test reliability and validity Date representation – mean, mode and median and standard deviation