The Telangana Department of School Education administers the Telangana Teacher Eligibility Test to hire qualified teachers for primary (1st-5th) and upper primary (6th-8th) grades. Aspirants who are planning and studying for the TS TET Exam 2024 should review the TS TET syllabus & prepare appropriately for best outcomes.
The Department of School Education, Government of Telangana, has announced the TS TET Syllabus 2024 along with the PDF notice. Understanding the TS TET Syllabus 2024 is the initial stage in exam preparation. After thoroughly studying the curriculum, candidates learn about the number of sections, significant themes, question distribution by section, and marking method. The TS TET 2024 Syllabus changes between Papers 1 and 2.
TS TET Syllabus 2024: Overview
The TS TET Exam is a state-level exam administered by Telangana's Department of School Education. The TS TET Exam includes objective questions from several topics to test the applicants' knowledge. The TS TET Syllabus 2024 has been summarized as follows:
TS TET Syllabus 2024
As previously noted, the TS TET Syllabus changes between Paper 1 and Paper 2. Take a look at the detailed subject-wise syllabus for both examinations below.
TS TET Syllabus 2024, Paper 1
The TS TET syllabus for Paper 1 includes themes such as Child Development and Pedagogy, Language I, Language II, Mathematics, & Environmental Studies. Check out the detailed syllabus for each section below:
TS TET Paper 1 Syllabus: Child Development and Pedagogy.
- Development, Growth, and Maturation: Concept and Nature
- Principles of Development and Their Educational Implications
- Factors influencing development: biological, psychological, and sociological
- Dimensions & their interrelationships. - Physical and motor, cognitive, emotional, social, moral, and language development during infancy, early childhood, late childhood, and adolescence.
- Understanding Development: Piaget, Kohlberg, Chomsky, Carl Rogers, and Erikson
- Individual differences - Intra & interindividual differences in the domains of attitudes, aptitude, interest, habits, thinking (divergent and convergent), intelligence, and assessment
- Personality development: is influenced by various factors such as child-rearing practices, self-concept, adjustment, behavioural issues, defence mechanisms, and mental health.
- Methods and Approaches for Child Development: Introspection, Observation, Interview, Case Study, Experimental, Rating Scales, Anecdotal Records, Questionnaire, Cross-sectional & Longitudinal, Developmental Tasks and Hazards.
Understanding Learning
- Concept, Nature of Learning: Input, Process, and Outcome
- Learning factors include personal and environmental factors
- Approaches to learning, and understanding their applicability: Behaviorism (Skinner, Pavlov, Thorndike), constructivism (Piaget, Vygotsky), Gestalt (Kohler, Koffka), and observational (Bandura).
- Dimensions of learning: cognitive, affective, and performance
- Motivation and Sustenance: Their Role in Learning.
- Memory, Forgetting
- Transfer of Learning
Pedagogical concerns
- Teaching & its Relationship to Learning and Learners
- Learners in Context: Situating learners in the sociopolitical and cultural setting
- Children from various contexts
- Children with Special Needs (CWSN)
- Inclusive Education
- Understanding of Pedagogic Methods: inquiry-based learning, Project-Based Learning, Survey, Observation, and Activity-Based Learning: Co-operative and collaborative learning
- Individual & group learning: Issues and issues with classroom learning organization, such as study habits, self-learning, and learning to learn skills.
- Organizing learning in diverse classroom groups, Socioeconomic Backgrounds, Abilities and Interests
- Paradigms for organizing learning: The focus is on the teacher, the subject, and the learner.
- Theory of Instruction: Bruner
- Teaching: is a planned activity with three phases: pre-active, interactive, and post-active.
- General and subject-related abilities, competencies needed for teaching, and characteristics of a competent facilitator
- Learning Resources: Self: Home School Play Community Technology
- Classroom Management: The student's role, the teacher's leadership style, Creating a non-threatening learning atmosphere, managing behavioural issues, Guidance and Counselling Child Abuse and Punishment: Legal Implications The rights of a child Time Management
- Assessment for Learning vs. Assessment of Learning, School-based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: Perspective & Practice Understanding Teaching & Learning in the Context of NCF, 2005 & Right To Education Act, 2009.
TSTET Paper 1 Language-I Syllabus
The TS TET Paper 1 syllabus for Language-I vary depending on the language selected by the candidates from the given options:
- Telugu
- Urdu
- Hindi
- Bengali
- Kannada
- Marathi
- Tamil
- Gujarati
TSTET Paper 1: Language II (English) Syllabus
- Speech Parts
- Tenses
- Types of sentences
- Prepositions and articles.
- Degrees of Comparison
- Direct and indirect speech
- Questions & Question Tags
- Active and passive voice.
- Phrasal Verbs
- Reading comprehension
- Composition
- Vocabulary
- Meaning of Idiomatic Expressions
- Correction of sentences.
- The sequence of sentences in the given paragraph
- Error detection within a sentence.
Pedagogy
- Features of English:- (a) English language: history, nature, significance, and principles of English as a second language
- (b) Problems in teaching/learning English
- Objectives of Teaching English: Phonetics
- Development of Language Skills:- (a) Listening, speaking, reading, and writing (LSRW); (b) Communicative abilities.
- Approaches, methods, and techniques for teaching English
- Introduction, Definition, and Types of Approaches and Techniques for Teaching English and Remedial Teaching
- Teaching of structures and vocabulary items.
- Materials for teaching English include lesson planning, curriculum, and textbooks.
- Evaluation of English Language Teaching - CCE
TSTET Paper 1 Maths Syllabus
The TS TET syllabus for Mathematics covers topics from the following sections:
- Number System
- Fractions
- Arithmetic
- Geometry
- Measurements
- Data Applications
- Algebra
- Pedagogy
TSTET Paper 1: Environmental Studies Syllabus
The TS TET syllabus for Environmental Studies (EVS) contains themes from the areas listed below:
- Family
- Work
- Play
- Plants/Animals
- Food
- Shelter, air, energy, and water are essential for health and cleanliness.
- Mapping the History and Culture of India.
- Telangana follows the Indian constitution.
- Earthquakes, floods, fire, first aid, 108 and 104 vehicles
- Pedagogy
TS TET Syllabus 2024: Paper 2
The TS TET syllabus for Paper 2 includes themes in Child Development & Pedagogy, Language-I, Language-II, Mathematics and Science, and Social Studies. Check out the detailed syllabus for each section below:
TSTET Paper 2: Child Development and Pedagogy Syllabus
- Development of the child
- Development, Growth, and Maturation: Concept and Nature
- Principles of Development and their Educational Implications
- Development is influenced by biological, psychological, and sociological factors. It involves physical, motor, cognitive, emotional, social, moral.
- language development across infancy, early childhood, late childhood, and adolescence.
- Understanding Development: Piaget, Kohlberg, Chomsky, Carl Rogers, and Erikson
- Individual differences - Intra and interindividual differences in the domains of attitudes, aptitude, interest, habits, thinking (divergent and convergent), intelligence, and assessment
- Personality development is influenced by various factors such as child-rearing practices, self-concept, adjustment, behavioral issues, defense mechanisms, and mental health.
- Methods and Approaches for Child Development: Introspection, Observation, Interview, Case Study, Experimental, Rating Scales, Anecdotal Records, Questionnaire, Cross-sectional and Longitudinal, Developmental Tasks and Hazards.
Understanding Learning
- Concept, nature of learning, input, process, and outcome, with personal and environmental factors.
- Approaches to learning and their applicability - behaviorism (Skinner, Pavlov, Thorndike), constructivism (Piaget, Vygotsky), Gestalt (Kohler, Koffka), and observational (Bandura)
- Dimensions of learning: cognitive, affective
- Performance
- Motivation and Sustenance: Their Role in Learning.
- Memory, Forgetting
- Transfer of Learning
Pedagogical concerns
- Teaching's Relationship to Learning and Learners
- Learners in Contexts: Placing learners in the sociopolitical and cultural setting.
- Children from varied environments - Children with special needs (CWSN), inclusive education.
- Understanding of Pedagogic Methods - inquiry-based learning, project-based learning, survey, observation, activity-based learning, cooperative and collaborative learning.
- Individual & group learning: Issues and issues with classroom learning organization, such as study habits, self-learning, and learning to learn skills.
- Organizing learning in diverse classroom groups. - Socioeconomic background, skills, and interests.
- Learning paradigms include teacher-centric, subject-centric, and learner-centric.
- Bruner's Theory of Instruction Teaching as a Planned Activity - Planning Elements Teaching Phases: Pre-active, Interactive, and Post-active.
- General and subject-related abilities, competencies needed for teaching, and characteristics of a competent facilitator
- Learning Resources: Self, Home, School, Play, Community, Technology.
- Classroom Management: The student's role, the teacher's leadership style, Creating a non-threatening learning atmosphere, managing behavioural issues, Guidance and Counselling Child Abuse and Punishment: Legal Implications The rights of a child Time Management
- Assessment for Learning vs. Assessment of Learning, School-based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: Perspective & Practice Understanding Teaching & Learning in the Context of NCF, 2005 & Right To Education Act, 2009.
TS TET Paper II Language-I Syllabus
The TS TET Paper 2 syllabus for Language-I vary depending on the language selected by the candidates from the given options:
- Telugu
- Urdu
- Hindi
- Kannada
- Marathi
- Tamil
- Gujarati
TS TET Paper 2 Language-II English Syllabus.
- Speech Parts
- Tenses
- Types of sentences
- Prepositions and articles.
- Degrees of Comparison
- Direct and indirect speech
- Questions and Question Tags
- Active and passive voice.
- Verbs
- Reading comprehension
- Vocabulary
- Meaning of Idiomatic Expressions
- Correction of sentences.
- Sequencing sentences in a paragraph and identifying errors within them.
- Conjunction
- Antonyms, synonyms, and spelling.
- Composition: letter writing, precise writing
- Pedagogy
TSTET Paper 2 Maths and Science Syllabus
The TS TET syllabus for Mathematics covers topics from the following sections:
- Number System
- Trigonometry
- Arithmetic Sets
- Geometry Mensuration
- Data Handling
- Algebra
- Pedagogy
The TS TET syllabus for Science covers topics from the following sections:
- Natural Resources: Air, Water
- Our universe
- natural phenomenon.
- Mechanics: Kinematics, Dynamics
- Magnetism and electricity
- matter around us.
- Laws of Chemical Combination
- Calculations
- Atomic structure
- Periodic classification and chemical bonds.
- Metallurgy
- Biology
- The living world
- Plants world
- Animals world
- microbes
- Trends in Biology
- Pedagogy
TSTET Paper 2: Social Studies Syllabus
The TS TET syllabus for Social Studies covers topics from the following sections:
- The diversity of the world
- Production: trade and livelihoods
- Political System and Governance
- Social organization and disparities
- Religion & Society
- Culture and Communication
- Pedagogy
TS TET Exam Pattern 2024
Candidates who wish to submit an application for the TS TET exam must first review the exam pattern. The TSTET exam pattern is broken into two parts: paper 1 and paper 2. The paper 1 exam is used to verify candidates' eligibility to teach in grades 1 through 5. On the other side, the TSTET paper 2 exam is used to verify candidates' eligibility to teach in Telangana's upper primary classes (6 to 8).
How Do I Prepare for TSTET 2024?
Applicants can prepare for TS TET 2024 by following the TSTET preparation strategies listed below:
- Set your goal and begin preparing early for the exam.
- Be diligent with the syllabus and develop a study plan.
- Clear your basic concepts from high school textbooks.
- Solve past years' question papers to understand the types of questions asked on the exam.
- Try mock tests to improve speed and accuracy.
- Identify your weak subjects and begin working on them.