CG TET Paper 2 Child Development and Pedagogy Syllabus 2026 - Download CG TET Paper 2 Syllabus PDF Here

Unit 1: Introduction to child development:

• Concept of development, stages of development - prenatal/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

7 marks

Unit 2: Dimensions of Development:

(a) Physical and motor development, development of physical control and coordination

(b) Emotional and Moral development.

Some basic principles: change in the body parts and their proportions, development of control (macro and micro), emotional development, moral development, (school and home environment, friends/peers, groups and relations with adults, social and cultural background of child development), personality development and socialization

7 marks

Unit 3: Learning and cognitive development:

• What is learning and how do children learn?
• Review of different theories - behavioral, structural, and social concepts. What is Cognition?
• Views of Jean piaget on children’s thinking, construction of knowledge, schema, assimilation, accommodation, organization, equilibration, characteristics of adolescent thinking what is mental operation, development of thinking from early childhood to adolescence and its stages, sensory stage, Page 35 functional stage, pre-operation stage, concrete operation stage, formal operation stage, educational importance of Piaget’s theories, Lev Vygotsky’s theory, Zone of Proximal development (ZPD), 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.

9 marks

Unit 4: Children with Special Needs:

Children with Special Needs - meaning, defect, damage, disability, similarity in differences, working with differently abled children Knowledge and Curriculum - need of Curriculum, concept of Curriculum, concept of Syllabus, problems in Framing curriculum, criteria for the selection of curriculum, Right to Education Act-2009, role and responsibilities of teachers, child rights.

7 marks