Tamilnadu Post Graduate Assistant Recruitment 2021 : Syllabus and Exam pattern

Tamilnadu Post Graduate Assistant Recruitment 2021: Teachers Recruitment Board(TRB), Tamilnadu has released 2207 direct recruitment teaching vacancies in various subjects. TRB has released vacancies for the post of Post Graduate Assistants / Physical Education Directors Grade-I and Computer Instructor Grade I in School Education and other department in Tamilnadu. All the candidates has started preparing for the examination. To get better knowledge of TRB Recruitment Exam, candidates should know syllabus and exam pattern properly. The detailed of syllabus , exam pattern has been given below :

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TRB TN Post Graduate Assistants Teacher Recruitment : Syllabus

TRB has released vacancies for the post of Post Graduate Assistants / Physical Education Directors Grade-I and Computer Instructor Grade I in various Subjects. For Post Graduate Assistants and Physical Director Grade I, the syllabus contains Main Subject, Educational Methodology, General Knowledge. For Post Graduate Computer Instructor Grade I, the syllabus contains Computer Science, Educational Methodology, General Knowledge. Here we are going to explain for all post.

Syllabus of Education Methodology

Educational Methodology section comes in all post recruitment exams i.e. Post Graduate Assistants / Physical Education Directors Grade-I and Computer Instructor Grade I. This section contains 30 question for 30 marks for Post Graduate Assistants / Physical Education Directors Grade-I recruitment exam. In Post Graduate Computer Instructor Grade I, this section contains 10 question for 10 marks.

Unit-I 

Pre-primary Education – Programme of Pre-primary Education-universalization of Primary Education- Equality of opportunity- Secondary and Higher Secondary Education-Need for uniform pattern-Non-formal and Adult Education-Functional Literacy Programme- Programmes for workers in Industry- Programme for dropouts-Role of Educational Institutions in Non-formal Education-Open School/Open University, Quantity and Quality of Education-State and National level-Unemployment and underemployment- Delinking employment from degrees- Skill development- Vocational Skill oriented education- Man Power planning and education – Brain drain – Special problems of rural and tribal people – Illiteracy and poverty- Eradication of poverty through Education.

Unit-II

National Integration – International understanding – Value Education in action – Nutrition and health – Sanitation – Safety and first aid – Women’s education – Education for handicapped – Education for gifted – Population Education- Need for protecting the environment – Environmental Education – Language policy – Medium of education – Channel of International communication – Management of Schools, Private, Aided, Government, Local authorities – Government Department of education, administration and academic supervision- Headmaster / Headmistress as an administrator and academic supervisor.

Unit-III

History and Culture of Tamil Nadu: Political – Spiritual – Religion – Literature – Language – Education – Natural Resources – Trade – Occupations – Historical places – Tourist centers – Arts – Games – Society.

Unit-IV

The Learner, learning process – Learning situation – Significance of Educational Psychology to the teacher concept of growth and maturity – Development characteristies and trends – Developmental tasks and education – Development of mental abilities – Attention, Inattention and distraction – span of attention, sensation and perception – factors in perception – Errors – concept formation – Piagets stages of cognitive development – concept maps language. Imagination, thinking and reasoning – Psycho- linguistics – Implications for the teacher.

Unit-V

Special characteristics of adolescents and their problems, attitudes, interest, group behaviour, Discipline – Leadership – Nature and importance of learning – Individual differences in learning – Learning curves – Transfer of learning – Learning styles – Factors in learning – Types of learning – Trial and error – Conditioning – Classical and operant – Learning by insight – Imitation – Levels of learning – Remembering and forgetting- Learning Disabilities.

Unit-VI

Motivation- Maslow’s hierarchy of needs- Role of rewards and punishments – Levels of aspiration – Achievement motivation – Goal as a motivational factor – Nature of Intelligence – Theories of Intelligence – Assessment of intelligence – IQ constancy – Distribution – uses of intelligence tests – Creativity – Creativity and intelligence – Identification and promotion of creativity – Meaning of personality – Factors influencing personality -Assessment of personality – Integrated personality – concept of mental health and hygiene – conflict and frustration- Unrest – Adjustment – Defence mechanisms – Mental illness – Guidance and counselling.

Unit-VII

Meaning of educational innovation – Principles involved in innovation – Emergence of School – in cultural, social and religious setting – Innovations that emerged from educational experiments – Tagore:- Santiniketan – Gandhiji:- Basic Education – A.S.Neill:- Progressive School – Sri Aurobindo:- Ashram Schools. Rousseau: Children’s Education – Moutessori:- Sense Experience – BertrandRussel:- Education for Social Order- Froebel:-Kindergarten – Dewey:- Pragmatic life – J. Krishnamoorthy:- Freedom in learning situation. Influence of Psychological factors on innovation – principles underlying self learning devices. Piaget:- Experiments and discovery learning – Child -centred learning. Effects of cultural, religious and social factors on innovation – Principles of equality – conformity to common educational goals.

Unit-VIII

Modernization of education – National Educational Policy (1986) – DPEP-Special focus on Teacher Education (DTERT, DIETs, BRCs, CRCs) MLL based curriculum and syllabus – Joyful learning – Autonomy in institutional structures – Individual freedom – Library based learning: Self paced instruction – pace setting schools – Mobile schools – De-Schooling and non-classroom learning – community schools – school complex Distance education and open learning – Education through mass communication – Special education – Sainik School – Defence academy – Educational Technology – need for and use of Industructional technology – mass media for instructional purposes – Review of radio and TV educational programmes – educational computing.

Syllabus for General Knowledge

General Knowledge section comes in all post recruitment exams i.e. Post Graduate Assistants / Physical Education Directors Grade-I and Computer Instructor Grade I. This section contains 10 question for 10 marks for all post exams.

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