KVS PRT Syllabus : Details, Important, Preparation, Exam, 2024

KVS PRT Syllabus – Part I

KVS PRT Syllabus – Part II 

KVS PRT Syllabus – Part III

(a) Understanding the Learner

• Concept of growth, maturation and development, principles and debates of development, development tasks and challenges
• Domains of Development: Physical, Cognitive, Socio-emotional, Moral etc., Deviations in development and its implications
• Understanding Adolescence: Needs, challenges and implications for designing institutional support.
• Role of Primary and Secondary Socialization agencies. Ensuring Home school continuity.

(b) Understanding Teaching Learning

• Theoretical perspectives on Learning – Behaviorism, Constructivism and Cognitivism with reference to their implications for –

i. The role of the teacher and learner

ii. Nature of teacher-student relationship

iii. Classroom environment

iv. Choice of teaching methods, etc.

v. Understanding of discipline, power etc

• Factors affecting learning and their implications for Planning student activities, Designing classroom instructions and Creating learning spaces in school
• Planning and Organization of Teaching-Learning
• Concept of Syllabus, Competency-based Education, Overt and Hidden Curriculum
• Principles of curriculum organization, Experiential learning, etc.
• Instructional Plans – Unit Plan, Lesson Plan, Year Plan

• Competency-based Education, etc.
• Instructional material and resources

• Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for teaching-learning
• Early childhood care and education, Fundamental literacy and numeracy
• Assessment of learning, for learning and as learning: Meaning, purpose and considerations in planning each.

• Enhancing Teaching Learning processes: Reflections and Dialogues as a means of constructivist teaching, Classroom Observation and Feedback, etc.

(c) Creating Conducive Learning Environment

• The concepts of disability, diversity, and Inclusion, implications of disability as a social construct, types of disabilities-their identification and interventions
• Provisioning for guidance and counselling. Concept of School Mental Health, addressing the curative, preventive and promotive dimensions of mental health for all students and staff, etc.
• Developing School and community as a learning resource

(d) School Organization and Leadership

• Leader as a reflective practitioner, team builder, initiator, coach and mentor.
• Perspectives on School Leadership – instructional, distributed and transformative
• Using School Processes and forums for strengthening teaching-learning, timetabling, parent-teacher forums, using achievement data for improving teaching-learning, school assembly, school self-assessment and Improvement, teacher development forums, etc.
• Vision building, goal setting and creating a School Development Plan
• Creating partnerships with community, industry and other neighbouring schools and Higher Education Institutes-forming learning communities

(e) Perspectives in Education

• NEP-2020 – Equitable and Inclusive Education: Learning for All; Curriculum and Pedagogy in Schools; Holistic & Integrated Learning; Competency-based learning and Education,
• Historically studying the National Policies in education with special reference to school education
• Role of school in achieving aims of education.
• Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, Guiding Principles for Child Rights, Protecting and provisioning for the rights of children to a safe and secure school environment
• School Curriculum Principles: Perspective, Learning and Knowledge, School Stages, Pedagogy and Assessment, Curricular Areas