New syllabus (applicable from June 2019)

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UNIT 1 TEACHING ATTITUDE

 Teaching Concepts, Objectives, Level of Learning (Memory, Comprehension and Thinking), Characteristics and Basic Expectations

 Learner characteristics: Adolescent and adult learner expectations (academic, social/emotional and cognitive, individual differences)

 Teaching Factors Teachers, Aids, Institutional Facilities, Educational Environment

 Methodology of teaching in higher learning institutions Teacher centered vs learner centered method, offline vs online methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCS etc.)

 Teaching Aid System Traditional, Modern and ICT based.

 Evaluation Systems: Elements and types of evaluation, Choice based credit system evaluation in higher education, Computer based examination, Innovations in evaluation methods.

Unit 2 Research Aptitude

Research: Meaning, Types and Characteristics, Positivism and Post-positivism Approaches to Research

 Research Methods: Experimental, Descriptive, Historical, Qualitative and Quantitative

 Steps of research

 Dissertation and Article Writing: Format and Style of Reference

 Application of ICT in Research

 Research Ethics

Unit 3 Perception

 A passage will be given, the questions asked from that passage have to be answered.

UNIT 4 COMMUNICATION

 Meaning, types and characteristics of communication communication

 Effective communication, verbal and non-verbal, intercultural and group communication, classroom communication, barriers to effective communication

 Mass media and society

Unit 5 Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude

Ø  Types of reasoning

Ø  Number Series, Letter Series, Codes and Relationships

Ø  Mathematical Aptitude (Fraction, Time & Distance, Ratio, Proportion, Percentage, Profit & Loss, Interest & Discount, Average etc.)

 Unit 6 Reasonable Reasoning

Ø  Perception of structure of device, form of device, formless

Ø  Structure, state and form of proposition, formal and informal fallacy, use of language, words

Ø  Goal and reality, traditional class of protest.

Ø  Types of reasoning: evaluation and specification of deductive and inductive reasoning

Ø  Analogies

Ø  Venn’s Diagram: Simple and multiple use of Venn to ensure the validity of the argument

Ø   Means of Indian Logic Knowledge Pramana: Direct, Inference, Analogy, Word, Meaning and Absence

Ø  Structure, types, scope, fallacies of inference

UNIT 7 INTERPRETATION OF DATA

Ø  Data source, collection and classification

Ø  Qualitative and Quantitative Data

Ø  Graphical representation (bar charts, histograms, pie charts, table charts and line charts) and plotting of data

Ø  Data Interpretation Statistics and Good Governance

UNIT 8 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT)

Ø . ICT common abbreviations and acronyms

Ø  Basics of Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio-Visual Conferencing

Ø  Digital Initiatives in Higher Education

Ø  ICT and Good Governance

UNIT 9 PEOPLE, DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT

Ø Development and Environment: Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals

Ø Human and Environment Interactions: Ethnic activities and their impact on the environment.

Ø Environmental issues local, regional and global, air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, noise pollution, waste (solid, liquid, biomedical, hazardous, electronic), climate change and its social, economic and political dimensions.

Ø Effects of pollutants on human health

Ø  Natural and solar energy, wind, soil, water, geothermal, bio-mass, nuclear and forest

Ø  Natural Hazards and Disasters: Mitigation Tips

Ø  Environment (Protection) Act (1986), National Action Plan on Climate Change, International Agreements/Efforts – Montreal Protocol, Rio Convention, Bio-diversity Convention, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, International Solar Alliance.

UNIT 10 HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM

Ø  Institutions of higher learning and education in ancient India

Ø The emergence of higher learning and research in India after independence

Ø  Oriental, traditional and non-traditional learning programs in India

Ø  Vocational/Technical and Skill based education

Ø   Value Education and Environmental Education Policies, Good Governance, Politics and Administration