Pedagogy :
(i) Pedagogical Concerns
(a) Curriculum: Meaning, Principles, types of curriculum organization, approaches.
(b) Planning: Instructional Plan- Year Plan, Unit Plan, Lesson Plan
(c) Instructional material and resources: Text Books, Work books, Supplementary material AV aids, Laboratories, Library, Clubs- Museums- Community, Information and Communication Technology.
(d) Evaluation: Types, tools, Characteristics of a good test, Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation, Analysis and Interpretation of Scholastic Achievement Test.
(ii) Inclusive Education
(a) Understanding diversities: concept types (disability as a dimension of diversity)
(b) Disability as a social construct, classification of disability and its educational implications.
i) Sensory Impairment (Hearing Impairment, Visual Impairment and Deaf Blind)
ii) Cognitive Disabilities: (Autism Spectrum Disorder; Intellectual Disability and Specific Learning Disability)
iii) Physical Disabilities: celebral palsy and loco motor)
(c) Philosophy of inclusion with special reference to children with disability.
(d) Process of inclusion: concern issues across disabilities.
(e) Constitutional Provisions
(iii) Communication & interaction
Theory of Communication, Types of Communication, Communication & language, Communication in the classroom, barriers in communication.
(iv) Understanding Learning
Concept, Nature of Learning – input- process-outcome, Factors of Learning – Personal and Environmental, Approaches to learning and their applicability – Behaviourism (skinner, Pavlov, Thorndike) Constructivism (plaget, Vygotsky), Gestalt (Kohler, Koffka) and
Observational (Bandura), Dimensions of Learning – Cognitive, Affective and Performance, Motivation and Sustenance- its role in learning, Memory & Forgetting, Transfer of Learning. Design of Learning activities and classroom processes, pedagogic practices, and creating democratic learning environments that include diverse children’s knowledge and social experiences in the classroom. |