CG TET Paper 1 Child Development and Pedagogy Syllabus 2026 - Download CG TET Paper 1 Syllabus Subject-Wise PDF Here

Duration of exam

150 minutes

Total Questions

150

Total marks

150

Exam mode

Offline

Number of subjects

5

Names of subjects

Type of questions

Objective or Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs)

Level of the papers

Class 12 level

Marking scheme

+1 for correct answer

Negative marking

No negative marking for wrong answers

• Concept of development, stages of development – pre-natal/infancy/early and post-childhood/adolescence.
• Physical, cognitive, and social-emotional development.
• Factors affecting development – nature, nutrition, continuity and discontinuity, early and later experiences, and the social and cultural background of child development.
• Knowledge about different methods to study children.

• Physical and motor development: Development of physical control and coordination.
• Emotional and Moral development: Some basic principles, changes in the body parts and their proportions, development of control (macro and micro), emotional development, and moral development. (School and home environment, friend/peer groups and relations with adults, social and cultural background of child development, personality development and socialization.)

• What is learning and how do children learn?
• Review of different theories – behavioural, structural, and social concepts. What is cognition?
• Views of Jean Piaget on children’s thinking, construction of knowledge, schema, assimilation, accommodation, organization, and equilibration.
• Characteristics of adolescent thinking: what is a mental operation, the development of thinking from early childhood to adolescence and its stages, the sensory stage, the functional stage, the pre-operational stage, the concrete operational stage, and the formal operational stage.
• Educational importance of Piaget’s theories.
• Lev Vygotsky’s theory, Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), and the role of teachers in scaffolding.
• 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.
• Motivation and learning.

• Children with special needs – meaning, defect, damage, disability, similarity & differences, and working with differently-abled children. Knowledge and curriculum – need of curriculum, concept of curriculum, concept of syllabus, problems in learning, curriculum, criteria for the selection of curriculum.
• Right to Education Act-2009, role and responsibilities of teachers, child rights.