• The concept of development and its relation to learning
• Principles of the development of children
• Effects of Heredity & Environment
• Socialization Processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
• Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
• The concepts of child-centered and progressive education
• A critical view on the construct of Intelligence
• Multidimensional Intelligence
• Language & Thought
• Gender is a social construct; it entails gender roles, gender bias, and educational practice.
• Individual differences among learners comprise differences regarding the diversity of the language, caste, gender, community, religion, etc.
• Difference between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
• The appropriate questions formulate the readiness level of learners, enhance learning and critical thinking in the classroom, and assess learner achievement.

• Supporting Diverse Students:

have to guide students from different backgrounds, particularly ones facing problems like poverty.

• Assisting Students with Learning Disabilities:

The students need special methods of instruction and more support to be able to learn.

• Recruit Gifted and Innovative Students: Gifted students need challenges in order to remain fascinated and growing.

• Helping Disabled Students: The specially-abled students require different support to learn in an amiable and nurturing environment.

• How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to succeed in school performance.
• Basic processes of teaching and learning; strategies children use in learning; learning as a social activity; the social context of learning.
• Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
• Alternative conceptions of learning in children: views ‘children’s ‘errors’ as normal stages in the learning process.
• Cognition & Emotions
• Motivation and learning
• Factors that contribute to learning – personal and environmental
• Addressing learners from varying backgrounds, including disadvantaged and deprived
• Impairment and discussing the needs of children who have learning difficulties
• Engage Talented Creative Specially Able Students

Reading unseen passages-two passages one prose or drama, and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar, and verbal ability (Prose passage can be literary, scientific, narrative, or discursive)

• Teaching-Learning Materials: Textbook, Multi-Media Materials, Multilingual Resource of the Classroom
• Challenges of Teaching Language in a Diverse Classroom, Language Difficulties, Errors, and Disorders
• Evaluating Language Comprehension and Proficiency: Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing
• Language Skills
• Role of Listening and Speaking; Function of Language and How Children Use It as a Tool
• Remedial Teaching
• Learning and Acquisition
• Principles of Language Teaching
• Role of Grammar in Learning a Language for Communicating Ideas Verbally and in Written Form

• Teaching/Learning Material: Textbook, Multimedia Material, Classroom Multilingual Resource
• Language Skills
• Assessing Language Comprehension and Competence: Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing
• A Critical View of the Role of Grammar in Language Learning Allows for Its Use in Both Oral and Written Communication
• Learning and Acquiring
• Principles of Language Teaching: Role of Listening and Speaking; Function of Language and How Children Use It as a Tool
• Challenges of Teaching Language in a Diverse Classroom; Language Difficulties, Errors, and Disorders
• Remedial Teaching

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

• Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching
• Problems of Teaching
• Community Mathematics
• Language of Mathematics
• Evaluation through formal and informal methods
• Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum

• Water
• Shelter
• Things We Make and Do
• Travel
• Food

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

• The Concept of Development and Its Relation to Learning
• Individual Differences Among Learners Comprise Differences Regarding the Diversity of Language, Caste, Gender, Community, Religion, etc.
• Gender Is a Social Construct; It Entails Gender Roles, Gender Bias, and Educational Practice
• Principles of the Development of Children
• Effects of Heredity & Environment
• Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: Constructs and Critical Perspectives
• Multidimensional Intelligence
• Language & Thought
• The Concepts of Child-Centered and Progressive Education
• A Critical View on the Construct of Intelligence
• Socialization Processes: Social World & Children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
• Difference Between Assessment for Learning and Assessment of Learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: Perspective and Practice
• The Appropriate Questions Formulate the Readiness Level of Learners, Enhance Learning and Critical Thinking in the Classroom, and Assess Learner Achievement

• Supporting Diverse Students:

have to guide students from different backgrounds, particularly ones facing problems like poverty.

• Assisting Students with Learning Disabilities:

The students need special methods of instruction and more support to be able to learn.

• Recruit Gifted and Innovative Students: Gifted students need challenges in order to remain fascinated and growing.

• Helping Disabled Students: The specially-abled students require different support to learn in an amiable and nurturing environment.

• Cognition & Emotions
• Motivation and learning and more

Reading unseen passages-two passages one prose or drama, and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar, and verbal ability (Prose passage can be literary, scientific, narrative, or discursive)

• Language Skills
• Learning and Acquisition
• Teaching-Learning Materials: Textbook, Multi-Media Materials, Multilingual Resource of the Classroom
• Evaluating Language Comprehension and Proficiency: Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing
• Principles of Language Teaching
• Challenges of Teaching Language in a Diverse Classroom, Language Difficulties, Errors, and Disorders
• Role of Listening and Speaking; Function of Language and How Children Use It as a Tool
• Perspective on the Role of Grammar in Learning a Language for Communicating Ideas Verbally and in Written Form
• Remedial Teaching

• Learning and Acquiring
• Principles of Language Teaching:
• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• A critical view of the role of grammar in language learning allows for its use in both oral and written communication.
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• Language Skills
• Assessing language comprehension and competence: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
• Teaching/learning material: Textbook, multimedia material, Classroom multilingual resource
• Remedial Teaching

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

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

• Materials of daily use
• Cleaning food
• Magnets
• The World of the Living
• How things work
• Natural Resources
• Electric current and circuits
• Moving Things People and Ideas
• Natural Phenomena
• Components of food
• Sources of food

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

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

Geography

• Globe
• Planet: Earth in the Solar System
• Human Environment: Settlement, Transport, and Communication
• Environment in Its Totality: Natural and Human Environment
• Resources: Types-Natural and Human
• Air
• Water
• Geography as a Social Study and as a Science
• Agriculture

Social and Political Life

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