Sikkim TET Syllabus 2025 And Latest Exam Pattern

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Sikkim TET 2025 Syllabus

Sikkim TET Syllabus 2025 is different for the Primary & upper Primary Level. Candidates must go through the topic-wise syllabus before starting their preparation. The syllabus is available in the PDF format for all the different subjects given below.

Sikkim TET  Syllabus Paper I

(A) Child Development (Primary School Child)                                    

• Concept of development and its relationship with learning.
• Principles of the development of children.
• Gross and fine motor development skills in infancy & preschool children.
• Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teachers, parents, peers)
• Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives.
• Development of speech and language.
• 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.
• Understanding child abuse.

(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,and  especially able learners.

(C) Learning and Pedagogy                                                                       

• How children think and learn.
• Factors contributing to learning –personal & environmental.
• Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.
• Cognition & Emotional development of the child.
• Motivation – Concept and types of Motivation; Relationship between Motivation and Learning.
• Gathering data about children from different contexts: Naturalist Observation, Reflective Journal, and Anecdotal Record.

Sikkim TET Syllabus 2025 Language Wise

(A) Language Comprehension                                                                              

Reading unseen passages –  two passages, one prose or drama and 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 and in written form.
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom: language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
• Teaching – learning materials: Textbook, multimedia materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

Sikkim TET Syllabus 2025 Mathematics

(A) Content                                                                                                               

1. Numbers

• Squares and Square roots
• Cubes and Cube roots
• Integers
• Decimals and Fractions
• Algebraic Expressions and Identities
• Factorizations
• Rational Numbers
• Exponents and Powers
• Addition and Subtraction
• Operation on Numbers
• Ratio and proportion
• Measurement
• Comparing Quantities
• Direct and Inverse Variations
• Geometry
• Shapes & Spatial Understanding
• Solids around Us
• Mensuration
• Weight
• 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 learning and teaching
• Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching

Sikkim TET Syllabus 2025 Environmental Studies

(A) Content
(i) Science: VI-VIII 

• Food: Sources and Components
• Nutrition in Plants and Animals
• Light, Shadows and Reflection
• Electric Current and its effects
• Sound
• Microorganism: Friend and Foe
• Pollution of Air and Water
• Physical and Chemical changes
• Fibre to Fabric

(ii) Social Science: (VI-VIII Social and Political Life, History–Our Pasts, Geography)

(a) History:

• From Gathering to Growing Food
• Rulers and Buildings
• India after Independence

 (b) Geography:

• Motions of the Earth
• Life in the Temperate Grassland
• Mineral and Power Resources.

 (c) Social and Political Life:

• Diversity and Discrimination.
• Understanding Media.
• Understanding Marginalisation

(B) Pedagogical Issues:                                                                                         

• Environmental Studies: Meaning and Nature.
• Objectives of teaching Environmental studies.
• Approaches to teaching Environmental Studies. NCF – 2005
• Meaning of Child Centric activity-based classroom.
• Principles and importance of Child-Centred approach.
• Needs of the child.
• Development of various skills among the children through teaching of Environmental studies.
• Steps in planning and conducting activities.
• Methods of teaching environmental studies – Meaning, importance, advantages and disadvantages.
• Difference between various methods of teaching.
• Methods of teaching at Primary Level.
• Problem solving method.
• Question answer method or conversation method.
• Project method
• Play – way method
• Story telling method
• Scientific method
• Principles and Characteristics of good method of teaching.
• Different types of activities needed to develop various skills among the children.
• Teaching – Learning material –Meaning, Importance, Qualities of teaching–Learning material, Types – Audio, Visual, Audio – Visual
• Meaning, importance, principles of lesson plan.
• Steps involved in Lesson Planning.
• Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation:
• Difference between Assessment and Evaluation, importance of evaluation.
• Types of assessment – Formative and Summative
• Tools and Techniques of Evaluation (Summative Assessment)
• Types of questions, Qualities of a good question paper. Educational objectives for framing questions (According to NCERT Model.)
• Grading System at Primary level – Meaning, Type of grading.

Sikkim TET 2025 Syllabus: [Paper II]

⇒Sikkim TET Syllabus 2025 Child Development and Pedagogy

(A) Child Development (Elementary School Child)                                          

• Concept of development and its relationship with learning
• Principles of development of children
• Influence of Heredity and Environment
• Socialization processes: Social world and children (Teacher, parents, peers)
• Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
• Concepts of child – centered and progressive education
• Critical perspective of the construct and intelligence
• Multiple Intelligence
• Language and Thought
• Gender as a social construct: gender roles, gender – bias and education practice
• Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion
• Data organization, Graphical representation (Bar Diagram, Histogram, Frequency Polygon, Ogive, Pie and Line Graph), Mean, Mode, Median, Standard Deviation, Average Deviation, Quartile Deviation, Percentiles and Ratio
• Principles of constructing Objective, short answer, essay and Interpretative type
• Characteristic of good test: Reliability, Validity, Objectivity and Usability.

(B) Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs

• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantage and deprived.
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties and impairment.
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Especially abled Learners.
• Mental Health and Mental Hygiene: Concept, causes and remedial Measures.

 
(C) Learning and Pedagogy                                                                                   

• How children think and learn: how and why children fail to achieve success in school performance.
• Basic process of teaching and learning: children’s strategies of learning and 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.
• Personality – Types.
• Constructivism and learning.

⇒Sikkim TET Syllabus 2025 Language

(A) Language Comprehension                                                                             
Two unseen prose passages(discursive or literary or narrative or scientific)with question 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 and in written form;
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
• Teaching – learning materials: Textbook, multi – media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

⇒Sikkim TET Syllabus 2025 Mathematics

• Content

(i) Number System

• Knowing our Numbers
• Playing with Numbers
• Whole Numbers
• Real Numbers
• Fractions

(ii) Algebra

• Introduction to Algebra
• Polynomials
• Remainder Theorem
• Linear Equations up – to two variables
• Ratio and Proportion
• Quadratic Equations

(iii) Arithmetic Progressions
(iv) Introduction to Trigonometry

• Trigonometric Ratios
• Trigonometric ratios of some specific angles
• Trigonometric Ratios of Complimentary Angles
• Trigonometric Identities

(v) Some Applications of Trigonometry

• Heights and Distances

(vi) Geometry

• Basic geometrical ideas (2 – D)
• Lines and Angles
• Triangles, Polygons and Circles
• Understanding Elementary Shapes (2 – D and 3 – D)
• Symmetry: (reflection)

 
(vii) Mensuration

• Surface Area and volumes of cube, cuboid, right circular cylinder, right circular cone, hemisphere and Sphere.

 
(viii) Coordinate Geometry
(ix) Data handling
 

• Pictorial Representation of Data
• Mean, Median and Mode of Grouped and Ungrouped Data
• Probability

Pedagogical Issues:

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

⇒Sikkim TET Syllabus 2025 Science

(A) Content:

• Motion
• Velocity
• Acceleration
• circular motion
• Force and laws of motion
• Gravitation
• Work and energy
• Sound – its speed and characteristics
• Light
• Reflection
• Refraction
• Human eye
• Electricity
• Ohm’s law
• Resistance
• Magnetic effect of current
• Air
• Materials from daily life
• Metals and non – metals
• Acid ,base and salt
• Carbon and its compounds
• Atoms and molecules
• Structure of the atom
• Periodic classification of elements
• Basic chemical reactions and equations
• Water
• Physiological processes in plants and animals
• Respiration
• Transportation
• Reproduction
• Cell – structure and functions
• Tissue – structure and functions
• Forest
• Environment
• Natural resources
• Control and coordination

Pedagogical Issues:
 

• Nature and Structure of Science
• Aims of Objectives
• Correlation with other subject i.e. Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
• Scientific method and inquiry.
• Science Curriculum
• Recommendation of NCF 2005 on teaching of Science.
• Approaches & Methods of teaching Science.
• Planning and Learning Resources for effective instruction in Science.
• Unit plan, Lesson Plan & TLMs.
• Community & Laboratory as a learning Resources.
• Evaluation of Learner progress
• Tools & Techniques for assessment in Science.
• Diagnostic & Remedial Teaching in Science.

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