Karnataka TET Syllabus 2024, Subject Wise Syllabus – Check Here

Department of Public Instruction, Government of Karnataka is the conducting authority of the Karnataka Teacher Eligibility Test (KAR TET) and it is the popular eligibility Entrance Examination of Karnataka State.

This test is regulated to appoint the candidates for the appointment of primary and upper primary teachers in government schools across the state. Every year, many candidates may appear in this Examination to get in the teaching field on the basis of their Eligibility Criteria. 

Here, from this article, candidates will know detailed information of the Karnataka Teacher Eligibility Test (KAR TET) in which includes the KAR TET Syllabus.

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KAR TET 2024 Syllabus

The Department of Public Instruction, Government of Karnataka, will prescribe the syllabus for the paper I and paper II examinations.

Those applicants who have applied for this Examination must have to prefer the syllabus for better preparation of the Examination.

On the official website, the syllabus details have been available in PDF mode, and candidates must download it.

Candidates must search the whole syllabus to waste their time; they only have to prefer the prescribed syllabus. The syllabus details are mentioned below.

Paper I (for classes I to V) Primary Stage

1. Child development and pedagogy

Child development: Concept of development and its relationship with learning, Principles of the development of children, Influence of Heredity & Environment.

Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)

Concepts of child-centred and progressive education: Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky, constructs and critical perspectives., Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence, Multi-Dimensional Intelligence, Language & Thought.

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.,

The distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning: School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation., perspective, and practice, Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners, for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.

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, Specially abled Learners

Learning and Pedagogy: How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to succeed in school performance.

Basic teaching and learning processes: children’s learning strategies, learning as a social activity and 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 & Emotions, Motivation, and learning, Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental

II. Language I

Language Comprehension Reading unseen passages – Answering the question based on the given unseen passage. (Prose, Drama or Poetry.)

Pedagogy of Language Development: Learning and Acquisition, Principles of Language Teaching, Role of listening and Speaking, the function of Language and how children use it as a Tool.

A 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 and Language Skills.

Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching

III. Language – II

Language Comprehension Reading unseen passages – Answering the question based on the given unseen passage. (Prose, Drama or Poetry.)

Pedagogy of Language Development: Learning and Acquisition, Principles of Language Teaching, Role of listening and Speaking, the Function of language and how children use it as a Tool.

A 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 and Language Skills.

Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching.

VI. Mathematics Content :

• Geometrical figures & the knowledge of space
• 3-D Geometrical figures
• Numbers
• Fractions
• Mathematical operations on numbers and algebraic expressions
• Measurements- Weight, time and volume
• Data Handling & Measures of central tendency
• Ratio and proportion
• Mathematics in daily life
• Lines & angles
• Polygons
• Basic algebra – Linear equations & Identities

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.

V. Environmental Science

Syllabus:

1. Our Environment:

• Major components of the environment, types of ecosystem, life diversity and its features, food chain, and nature balancing factors, Food web, ecological Pyramids, Plant and animal species, factors of Biodensity, Tropic levels, Types of pollution, reasons-effects- remedial measures, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gasses, sustainable development and its maintenance, waste management measures.
• Environment movements (Related to state and national level), Important Environment activists, state and national award-winning literature and writers related to the environment, major environmental phenomena, and types of ecological conservation.

2. Living world:

• Life processes, classification of organisms. How do organisms reproduce?
• Cell, Tissues, organ, and organ system.

3. Sources of Energy: Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Tidal Energy, Geothermal Energy, Biodegradable wastes, non-biodegradable wastes, Chemicals in our daily life.

4. Human Health and Hygiene:

Carbohydrates: Types of Monomers, lipids, proteins, Vitamins, Minerals, Deficiencies.

5. Natural Phenomena: Motion, Force, Gravitation, Newton’s laws of motion, distance–speed graphs.

6. How do things work:

Electricity: Definitions of important terminologies, SI units, Numericals.

7. Pedagogy of Environmental Science:

• Important methods of teaching
• Current teaching-learning interaction. Main features of NCF-2005
• Features and uses of practical methods.
• Values that are to be integrated into the classroom learning process.
• Evaluation methods, existing evaluation methods and maintenance of records.

VI Social Studies: (For Visually impaired instead of mathematics and EVS) Concepts, content and pedagogy of social studies pertaining to classes 6 to 8 and difficulty level up to secondary level (class 10). Content:

History: When, Where and How, The Earliest Societies, The First Cities, Early States, New Ideas, The First Empire, Contacts with Distant lands, Political Developments, Culture and Science, New Kings and Kingdoms, Sultans of Delhi, Architecture, Creation of an Empire, Social Change, Regional Cultures, The Establishment of Company Power, Rural Life and Society, Colonialism and Tribal Societies, The Revolt of 1857-58, Women and reform, Challenging the Caste System, The Nationalist Movement, India After independence.

Geography: Geography as a social study and as a science, Planet- Earth in the solar system, Globe, Environment in its totality: natural and human environment, Air, Water, Human-Environment – settlement, transport and communication, Resources- Types-Natural and Human, Agriculture.

Social and Political Life: Diversity, Government, Local Government, Making a Living, Democracy, State Government, Understanding Media, Unpacking Gender, The Constitution, Parliamentary Government, The Judiciary, Social Justice and the Marginalized.

Pedagogical issues: Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies, Class Room Processes, activities, and Discourse, Developing Critical Thinking, Enquiry/Empirical Evidence, Problems of Teaching Social Science/Social Studies, Sources – Primary & Secondary, Project Work, Evaluation.

Paper-II (for classes VI to VIII) Higher Primary

I. Child Development and Pedagogy

Child development: Concept of development and its relationship with learning, Principles of the development of children, Influence of Heredity & Environment.

Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)

Concepts of child-centred and progressive education: Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky, constructs and critical perspectives., Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence, Multi-Dimensional Intelligence, Language & Thought.

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.,

The distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning: School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation., perspective, and practice, Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners, for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.

The concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs addresses learners from diverse backgrounds, including disadvantaged and deprived, Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc., addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners.

Learning and Pedagogy: How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to succeed in school performance.

Basic processes of teaching and learning, children’s strategies, learning as a social activity and 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 & Emotions, Motivation, and learning, Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental

II. Language I

Language Comprehension Reading unseen passages – Answering the question based on the given unseen passage. (Prose, Drama or Poetry.)

Pedagogy of Language Development: Learning and Acquisition, Principles of Language Teaching, Role of listening and speaking, the function of Language and how children use it as a Tool.

A 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 and Language Skills.

Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching

III. Language – II

Comprehension: Two unseen prose passages (discursive, literary, narrative, or scientific) with the question on comprehension, grammar, and Verbal Ability.

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, Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders, Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing, Teaching– learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom, Remedial Teaching.

VI. Mathematics and Science:

Mathematics

Content:

• Arithmetic Progression
• Number system
• Statistics & Probability
• Trigonometry
• Coordinate geometry
• Identifies
• Pair of linear equations in two variables
• Quadratic equations
• Polynomials
• Mensuration
• Triangles
• Quadrilaterals
• Circles
• Area related to circles

Pedagogical issues: Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking, Place of Mathematics in Curriculum, Language of Mathematics, Community Mathematics, Evaluation, Remedial Teaching, Problem of Teaching

Science

Content:

1. Physics

Motion:

• Definitions, Types of motion, Law & Equations of motion.
• Laws and numerical.

Gravitation: Law, Numericals

How do things work:

Light – Reflection

– Refraction

Lens  – Concave, Convex

Mirror  – Concave, Convex

– Images formed in Spherical mirrors and lens

Electricity and Electric Circuits – Definitions, units, derivations.

Resistors – Numericals, circuit diagrams.

Magnetism – Definition, Various laws, numericals, AC, DC motors and generators.

Natural phenomenon – Eye, Eye defects.

– TIR, Dispersion.

2. Chemistry

Materials & Materials in our daily life – Metals, non-metals.

– Physical and chemical properties

Acids, Bases, and Salts: Physical and chemical properties.

Atoms and Molecules: Formulae, Masses, electronic configuration.

Polymers: Artificial, natural uses.

Natural resources: Types and applications.

Chemicals in our daily life: Soaps, detergents, Sweeteners, medicines, Drugs.

3. Biology

Food  –  Definition of food

• Food and its importance
• Food chain
• Food web
• Food pyramid

Food and its sources – Plant source and animal source implications.

Food and its Constituents: 

Energy-giving food – Carbohydrates & lipids

Bodybuilding food – Proteins

Body protectors – Vitamins & minerals, Roughage, and water.

Living World: Microorganisms

Plant kingdom – Thallophyta

Animal kingdom – Bryophyta

– Pteridophyta

– Gymnosperms

– Angiosperms

Protista, Protozoa, Fungi Prokaryotic and Eukaryotes.

Animal kingdom:

Cell: Plant cell and Animal cell

-Tissues, organ, organ system.

Pedagogical issues: Nature & Structure of Sciences, Natural Science/Aims & objectives, Understanding & Appreciating Science, Approaches/Integrated Approach, Observation/Experiment/Discovery (Method of Science), Innovation, Text Material/Aids, Evaluation.- problems and remedial teaching.

V. Social Studies/Social Sciences

Content:

History: When, Where and How, The Earliest Societies, The First Cities, Early States, New Ideas, The First Empire, Contacts with Distant lands, Political Developments, Culture and Science, New Kings and Kingdoms, Sultans of Delhi, Architecture, Creation of an Empire, Social Change, Regional Cultures, The Establishment of Company Power, Rural Life and Society, Colonialism and Tribal Societies, The Revolt of 1857-58, Women and reform, Challenging the Caste System, The Nationalist Movement, India After independence.

Geography: Geography as a social study and as a science, Planet- Earth in the solar system, Globe, Environment in its totality: natural and human environment, Air, Water, Human-Environment – settlement, transport and communication, Resources- Types-Natural and Human, Agriculture.

Social and Political Life: Diversity, Government, Local Government, Making a Living, Democracy, State Government, Understanding Media, Unpacking Gender, The Constitution, Parliamentary Government, The Judiciary, Social Justice and the Marginalized.

Pedagogical issues: Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies, Class Room Processes, activities, and discourse, Developing Critical thinking, Enquiry/Empirical Evidence, Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies, Sources – Primary & Secondary, Project Work, Current Evaluation methods.

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