PSTET New Exam Date 2020 Out: Check Punjab TET Notification

1. Candidates having Graduation Degree along with having NCTE Certificate/Two years BTC/Spcl. BTC/One Year B.Ed. (Appearing/Completed) will be considered. OR
2. Candidates having graduation/Post graduation Degree with 50% marks along with having B.Ed/Spcl B.Ed/LT/Or having 45% Marks with B.Ed. (Completed/Appearing) will be considered. OR
3. Candidates who have passed their Intermediate level of Examination with 50% Marks along with having 50% Marks with Four year Course in BA/B.Sc.Ed. /BA Ed/Four year B.A LED Graduation Course (Appearing/Passed) will be considered.

Qualifying marks
A person who scores 60% or more in the TET exam will be considered as TET pass. School managements (Government, local bodies, government aided and unaided)
(a) may consider giving concessions to persons belonging to SC/ST, OBC, differently abled persons, etc., in accordance with their extant reservation policy;
(b) should give weightage to the TET scores in the recruitment process; however, qualifying the TET would not confer a right on any person for recruitment/employment as it is only one of the eligibility criteria for appointment.

Punjab TET Exam Pattern 2019

Punjab TET Marking Scheme:

• All questions in PSTET will be Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
• Each answer carrying one mark, with four alternatives out of which one answer is correct
• There will be no negative marking

Punjab TET Syllabus 2019

Syllabus for Paper 1 and Paper 2 have been explained as per the Punjab TET official notification.
Topic wise Syllabus has been explained for paper 1 and paper 2

Punjab TET Syllabus, Paper – 1

Paper 1 will be for a person who intends to be a teacher for classes I to V (Primary Teacher) and fulfills the minimum qualifications.

I. Child Development and Pedagogy 30 Questions
a. Child Development (Primary School Child)

• Concept of development and its relationship with learning
• Principles of development of children
• Influence of Heredity and Environment
• Socialization processes : Social world & children (Teachers, Parents and Peers)
• Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky : constructs and critical perspectives
• Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
• Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
• Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
• Language and Thought
• Gender as a social construct : gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice
• Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.
• Distinction between Assessment for learning assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous and Comprehension Evaluation: Perspective and practice
• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and assessing learner achievement

b. Concept of Inclusive Education and understanding children with special needs

• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, impairment etc.
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled learners

c. Learning and Pedagogy

• How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance
• Basic processes of teaching and learning ; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning
• Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
• Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process
• Cognition and Emotions
• Motivation and Learning
• Factors contributing to learning – Personal and environmental

II. Language- I (Punjabi) 30 Questions
a. Language Comprehension
Reading unseen passage – two passages: one prose/drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)
b. Pedagogy of Language development

• Learning and Acquisition
• Principles of Language teaching
• Role of listening and speaking ; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Critical Perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally or in written form
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
• Language skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency : Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
• Teaching-Learning Materials : Text-books, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

III. Language – II (English) 30 Questions
a. Comprehension- Two unseen prose passages (discursive/literary/narrative/scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
b. Pedagogy of Language development

• Learning and Acquisition
• Principles of Language teaching
• Role of listening and speaking ; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Critical Perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally or in written form
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
• Language skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency : Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
• Teaching-Learning Materials : Text-books, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

IV. Mathematics 30 Questions
a. Topics

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

b. Pedagogical Issues

• Nature of Mathematics / Logical Thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• Evaluation through formal and informal methods
• Problems of teaching
• Error analysis and related aspects of teaching and learning
• Diagnostic and remedial teaching

V. Environmental Studies 30 Questions
a. Topics

• Family and Friends
• Relationships
• Work and Play
• Animals
• Plants
• Food
• Shelter
• Water
• Travel
• Things we Make and Do

b. Pedagogical Issues

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

Punjab TET Syllabus , Paper 2

Paper 2 will be for a person who intends to be a teacher for classes VI to VIII (TGT- Trained Graduate Teacher) and fulfills the minimum qualifications.
Paper 2 Topics
I. Child Development and Pedagogy 30 Questions
a. Child Development (Elementary School child)

• Concept of development and its relationship with learning
• Principles of development of child
• Influence of Heredity and Environment
• Socialization processes : Social world and children (Teachers, Parents and Peers)
• Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky : constructs and critical perspectives
• Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
• Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
• Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
• Language and Thought
• Gender as a social construct : gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice
• Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.
• Distinction between Assessment for learning assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous and Comprehension Evaluation: Perspective and practice
• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and assessing learner achievement

b. Concept of Inclusive Education and understanding children with special needs

• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled learners

c. Learning and Pedagogy

• How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance
• Basic processes of teaching and learning ; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning
• Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
• Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process
• Cognition and Emotions
• Motivation and Learning
• Factors contributing to learning – Personal and environmental

II. Language-I (Punjabi) 30 Questions
a. Language Comprehension
Reading unseen passage – two passages: one prose/drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)
b. Pedagogy of Language development

• Learning and Acquisition
• Principles of Language teaching
• Role of listening and speaking ; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Critical Perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally or in written form
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
• Language skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency : Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
• Teaching-Learning Materials : Text-books, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

III. Language – II (English) 30 Questions
a. Comprehension
Two unseen prose passages (discursive/literary/narrative/scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
b. Pedagogy of Language development

• Learning and Acquisition
• Principles of Language teaching
• Role of listening and speaking ; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Critical Perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally or in written form
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
• Language skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency : Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
• Teaching-Learning Materials : Text-books, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

IV. Mathematics & Science 60 Questions
i. Mathematics 30 Questions
Topics

• Number System
• Knowing our Numbers
• Playing with Numbers
• Whole Numbers
• Negative Numbers and Integers
• Fractions
• Algebra
• Introduction to Algebra
• Ratio and proportion

Geometry

• Basic Geometrical Ideas (2-D)
• Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
• Symmetry : (reflection)
• Construction (using straight edge scale, protactor, compasses)

Mensuration
Data Handling
b. Pedagogical Issue

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

ii. Science 30 Questions
Topics
i. Food

• Sources of food
• Components of food
• Cleaning food

ii. Materials- Materials of daily use
iii. The world of the living
iv. Moving things, people and ideas
v. How things work

• Electric currents and circuits
• Magnets

VI. Natural Phenomena
VII. Natural Resources
b. Pedagogical Issues

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

V. Social Studies / Social Sciences 60 Questions
Topics
i. History

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

ii. Geography

• Geography as a social study and as a science
• Planet : Earth in the Solar system
• Globe
• Environment in its totality : natural and human environment
• Air
• Water
• Human Environment : settlement, transport and communication
• Resources : Types-Natural and Human
• Agriculture

iii. Social and Political Life

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

b. Pedagogical Issues

• Concept and Nature of Social Sciences / Social Studies
• Classroom Processes, activities and discourse
• Developing Critical Thinking
• Enquiry / Empirical Evidence
• Problems of teaching Social Sciences / Social Studies
• Sources – Primary & Secondary
• Project Work
• Evaluation

Punjab TET Online Application Form 2019

Click here to Apply Online for Punjab Teacher Eligibility Test

• The mode of application submission is online only
• Please do not send hard copy of the application
• Do read the important notification details as per the official site before submission of the online form.
• It is important to note that the website clearly states that the Punjab State Teacher Eligibility Test 2018 is to be conducted in December 2019

Punjab TET Application Fee for both Paper 1 and Paper 2

How to Apply Online for Punjab TET 2019?

The steps to apply for Punjab State Teachers Eligibility Test (PSTET Apply online) are given below.

• Follow the given steps for completing the online form Punjab TET 2019.
  1. Click on the link mentioned below and you will be redirected to the CBSE official site directly.
  2. Now Scroll down and Click on Punjab TET Application Form 2019
  3. Now Fill out all the required details i.e Name, Father’s name, Mother’s name etc.
  4. Now Choose the exam centre and medium in which you want to give the Punjab TET Application Form 2019
  5. Now fill in your educational qualifications and all the degree’s you hold
  6. After that Fill in your communication address and Upload your Photo and signature
  7. After filling all the required details and uploading photo/signature You’ll be redirected to payments page. Pay your fee through Debit/Credit card/E-Challan.
  8. Click on submit and Your form will be submitted successfully.