AP DSC Secondary Grade Teacher Syllabus 2024, Exam Pattern

History of Education :

The Education in Ancient India - Pre-Vedic and Post-Vedic period, Medieval Education.

Education in Pre Independent era - Woods Despatch (1854), Hunter Commission (1882), Hartog Committee (1929), Sargent Committee (1944).

Education in Post Independent era - Mudaliar Commission (1952-53), Kothari Commission (1964-66), Ishwarbhai Patel committee (1977), NPE-1986, POA-1992

2. Teacher Empowerment:

· Need, interventions for empowerment, Professional code of conduct for teachers, Teacher motivation, Professional development of Teachers and Teacher organizations, National / State Level Organizations for Teacher Education, Maintenance of Records and Registers in Schools.

Educational Concerns in Contemporary India:

Democracy and Education, Equality, Equity, Quality in Education, Equality of Educational opportunities.

Economics of Education, Education as Human Capital, Education and Human

Resource Development, Literacy - Saakshar Bharat Mission.

Population Education, Gender - Equality, Equity and Empowerment of Women, Urbanization and migration, Life skills.

Adolescence Education

Value Education – Morel Value and Professional Eathics in Education.

Health and Physical Education

Inclusive Education - Classroom Management in Inclusive Education

Role of Education in view of Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization

3. Programmes and Projects – APPEP, DPEP, SarvaSikshaAbhiyan, National Programme for Education of Girls at Elementary Level (NPEGEL), RashtriyaMadhyamikaSikshaAbhiyan(RMSA), RashtriyaAveshekarAbhiyan (RAA), KGBVs, Model Schools.

Incentives and special provisions – Mid Day Meals, Free Books, Scholarship, Awards, Welfare Hostels, Transportation.

Current Trends in Education – Badipelusthondi, BadikiVasta, Mavuru – ManaBadi, Vidyanjali, SwachaPatasala, Inspire, Kalavutsav.

4. Acts / Rights:

Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act - 2009

Right to Information Act - 2005

Child Rights

Human Rights.

5. National Curriculum - Framework, 2005: Perspective, Guiding Principles, Learning and Knowledge, Teaching Learning Process, Assessment, Systemic Reforms.

6. National Educational Policy -2020

1. Development of Child: Development, Growth & Maturation – Concept & Nature. Principles of development and their education implication. Factors influencing Development – Biological, Psychological, Sociological, emotional. Dimensions of Development and their interrelationship – Physical & Motor, Cognitive, Emotional, Social, Moral, Language relating to Infancy, early Childhood, late Child hood, Adolescence. Understanding Development – Piaget, Kohlberg, Chomsky, Carl Rogers, Erikson.

2. Individual differences: Inter and intra individual differences, meaning, nature and theories of intelligence with special emphasis to multiple intelligence, IQ, assessment of intelligence, EQ, Creativity. Attitude, Aptitude, Interest, Habit and its Influence on Intelligence – Class room implementation.

3. Learning: Theories and approaches of learning, learning curves, Factors, Phases, Dimensions of learning, Types of learning, Transfer of learning. Memory, Forgetting, Learning and assessment– Class room implementation – Children with special need – Inclusive Education.

4. Personality: Nature, characteristics and theories of personality, factors of Personality, Assessment of Personality, Mental health, Adjustment, Stress – nature, Symptoms and management. Emotional intelligence, Management of emotions – Class room implementation.