OTET Syllabus 2024 for Paper 1 & 2: Download Subject-wise Syllabus PDF

Unit 1 - Understanding Child Development during Childhood (focus on children at the Primary level)

• Concept, principles and stages of child development
• Characteristics of physical, cognitive, social, emotional and moral development in childhood
• Influence of heredity and environment in understanding the child

Unit 2 - Understanding Learning Process and Learners

• Learning – concept, nature and individual differences in learning
• Understanding how a child learns – learning through observation, imitation
• Understanding low child learns – various methods of learning
• Basic conditions of learning and promotion of learning through motivation, classroom learning environment and teacher behaviour
• Development of creative thinking

Unit 3 - Concept of Inclusive Education and Understanding Children with Special Needs

• Concept of inclusive education
• Addressing the needs of diverse groups of learning in inclusive classrooms (CWSN, girls, SC / ST)
• Addressing the talented, creative learning

Unit 4 - Approaches to teaching and learning

• Teacher-centred, learner-centred and learning-centred approach
• Competency-based and activity-based approach
• TLM – its importance, use and preparation for classroom transaction
• Teaching competency to handle mono-grade and multi-grade situations

Unit 5 - Assessment

• Continuous and comprehensive assessment
• Purpose of assessment
• Assessing scholastic and other scholastic areas
• Sharing of assessment outcomes and follow-up

Group A (Pedagogy)

Unit 1- Learning Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali at the elementary level

• Aims and objectives of teaching Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali as mother tongue
• Principles of language teaching
• Acquisition of four-fold language skills in Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali viz., listening, speaking, reading and writing
• Interdependence of four language skills
• Objectives and strategies for transacting integrated text for beginners

Unit 2- Teaching, Reading and Writing Skills

• Technique of developing intensive and extensive reading skills
• Teaching-learning composition and creative writing
• Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning language for communicating ideas in written form
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom, language difficulties and errors

Group B (Content)

Unit 3- Assessment of learning Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali

• Assessment of language comprehensive and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, writing – construction of different types of test items
• Remedial teaching

Unit 4- Language items

• Part of speech – Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Adjectives, Conjunction
• Formation of words – using prefix and suffix
• Synonyms and antonyms
• Phrases and idioms

Unit 5- Language Comprehension

• Reading two unseen passages – one passage from prose and one poem with questions on comprehension, drama, inference, grammar and verbal ability
• (prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)

Group A (Pedagogy)

Unit 1 - Learning English at the Elementary Level

• Importance of learning English
• Objectives of learning English (in terms of content and competence specifications)

Unit 2 - Language Learning

• Principles of language teaching
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom

Unit 3 - Skills in Learning English

• Four-fold basic skills of learning viz., listening, speaking, reading and writing: interdependence of skills
• Techniques and activities for developing listening and speaking skills (recitation, storytelling, dialogue)
• Development of reading skills: reading for comprehension, techniques and strategies for teaching, reading (phonic, alphabet, word, sentence and story)
• Development of writing skills – teaching composition

Unit 4

• Assessment of English
• Assessing language comprehension and proficiency: listening, speaking, reading, writing

Group B (Content)

Unit 5- Comprehension

• Two unseen prose passages (discursive literary narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability

Unit 6 - Language items

• Nouns, Adverbs, Verbs, Tense and Time, Preposition, Articles, Adjectives, Prepositions, Punctuation

Group A (Pedagogy)

Unit 1 - Mathematics Education in Schools

• Nature of Mathematics (exactness, systematic, patterns, preciseness)
• Aims and objectives of teaching Mathematics
• Specific objectives of teaching Mathematics

Unit 2 - Methods and Approaches to Teaching-Learning Mathematics

• Methods: Inductive, deductive, analysis, synthesis, play-way
• Approaches: Constructivist and Activity-based

Unit 3 - Assessment in Mathematics

• Assessment in Mathematics
• Formal and informal assessment
• Different types of test items
• Planning for remedial and enrichment programme in Mathematics

Group B (Content)

Unit 4- Number System and Operation in Numbers

• Number System (natural, whole, rational, real)
• Fundamental operation on numbers
• Fractional numbers and decimals – operations in fractional numbers and decimals
• Factors and multiples – HCF and LCM
• Percentage and its application

Unit 5- Measurement

• Measurement of length, weight, capacity
• Measurement of area and perimeter of rectangle and square
• Measurement of time (concept of am, pm and time interval)

Unit 6- Shapes and Spatial Relationship

• Basic Geometrical Concepts (point, line segment, ray, straight line, angles)
• Geometry of triangles, quadrilaterals and circles
• Symmetry
• Geometrical slides (cube, cuboid, sphere, cylinder cone)

Unit 7- Data Handling and Patterns

• Pictography, Bargraph, Histogram, and Pie Chart
• Interpretation of these graphs
• Patterns in numbers and figures

Group A (Pedagogy)

Unit 1- Concept

• Concept and Significance
• Integration of Science and Social Science
• Aims and Objectives of Teaching and Learning EVS

Unit 2- Methods and Approaches

• Basic Principles of Teaching EVS
• Methods: Survey, Practical Work, discussion, observation, project
• Approaches: Activity-based, theme-based

Unit 3- Evaluation in EVS

• Tools and techniques for evaluation learning in EVS
• Diagnostic assessment in EVS

Group B (Content)

Unit 4- Governance

• Local-self, Government – State and Central
• Judiciary

Unit 5- Physical Features of Odisha and India

• Landscape
• Climate
• Natural resources
• Agriculture and industry

Unit 6

• History of Freedom Struggle in India and Odisha

Unit 7- Health and Diseases

• Nutritional, Elements, and a Balanced diet
• Nutritional, Deficiency and Diseases
• Waste Materials and Disposal
• First-aid
• Air and water pollution

Unit 8- Internal Systems of Human Body

Respiratory, Circulatory, Digestive and Excretory System – Structure and parts of plant – structure and function

Unit 9- Matter, Force and Energy

• Matter and its properties
• Earth and sky, the effect of rotation and revolution of the earth
• Work and energy

Unit 1- Child Development (Focus on Upper Primary School Children)

• Features of Physical, Cognitive, Social, Emotional & Moral development during pre-adolescence and adolescence
• Effect of Heredity and Environment on Development
• Needs and problems of adolescents
• Individual differences among learners

Unit 2- Learning

• Learning as meaning-making knowledge and construction
• How children learn – observation, initiation, trial, error, experience
• Learning as a social activity
• Rote learning and meaningful learning
• Factors affecting learning
• Strategies for promoting lessons
• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties and impairment
• Addressing the talented, creative and specially-abled learners

Unit 3- Curriculum Teaching-Learning Approaches and Evaluation

• Teacher-centred, learner-centred and learning-centred approaches
• Principles of curriculum organization
• Teaching learning aids
• Continuous comprehensive assessment of learning, planning and designing achievement tests, rating scale, checklist
• Test reliability and validity
• Date representation – mean, mode median and standard deviation

Group A (Pedagogy)

Unit 1- Learning Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali at Upper Primary Level

• Aims and objectives of learning Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali as a first language
• Principles of Teaching Mother Tongue
• Development of language skills (speaking, reading, writing and listening)

Unit 2- Teaching Language

• Intensive and Extensive reading skills at the upper primary level
• Teaching of non-detailed and detailed texts (prose, poetry)
• Teaching of composition and creative writing
• Teaching of grammar
• Challenges of teaching Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali in a multi-lingual context

Unit 3- Assessment of Language

• Assessment of learning Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali language – listening, speaking, reading and writing
• Planning and designing achievement tests and other tools for assessment

Group B (Content)

Unit 4 - Elements of Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali Language

Comprehension of two unseen passages (one from prose/drama and the other from poem) with test items on comprehension, vocabulary and grammar.

Unit 5 - Language Items

• Parts of Speech (Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Adjectives, and Conjunction)
• Formation of words (prefix and suffix)
• Vocabulary (spelling and meaning of Synonym and Antonym)
• Phrases and Idioms

Unit 6- Contribution of famous literates to the development of Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali language

• Odia - Fakir Mohan Senapati, Gangadhar Meher, Radhanath Ray, Surendra Mohanty, Gopinath Mohanty
• Urdu – Altaf Hussain Hali, Niaz Fatepuri, Ali Sardar Jafri, Amir Khusroo, Majrooh Sultanpuri
• Hindi – Bharatendu Harischandra, Mahavir Prasad Dwivedy, Prem Chand, Jayashankar Prasad, Suryakanta Tripathy Nirala
• Bengali – Rabindra Nath Tagore, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Tarasankar Bandopadhyay, Kzi Nazrul Islam, Bibhuti Bhusan Bandopadhyay
• Telugu – Srinanthadu, Gurajuda Appa Rao, Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Arudra, C. Narayan Reddy

Group A (Pedagogy)

Unit 1 - Learning English at Upper Primary Level

• Importance of learning English
• The objective of learning English

Unit 2 - Development of English Language Skills

• Basic skills of language (listening, speaking, reading, writing), interdependence of skills
• Teaching of Prose, Poetry and Composition
• The teaching of creative writing
• Principles of language teaching
• Challenges of teaching English as a second language at the upper primary level

Unit 3 - Assessment of Learning English Language

Assessment of comprehension and language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing)

Group B (Content)

Unit 4 - Comprehension

Two unseen passages (one from prose/drama and another from poem) with questions on comprehension, grammar)

Unit 5 - Language Items

• Parts of speech, tense, voice change and change of narration, use of article, use of punctuation mark
• Vocabulary – meaning and spelling

Mathematics Group A (Pedagogy)

Unit 1 - Mathematics at Upper Primary Stage

• Nature of Mathematics–logical, systematic, abstractions, pattern, mathematical language
• Aims and objectives of teaching Mathematics
• Specific objectives of teaching Mathematics

Unit 2 - Methods and Approaches to Teaching-Learning Mathematics

• Methods: induction, deduction, analysis and synthesis
• Approaches: Constructivist and activity-based

Unit 3 - Evaluation in Mathematics

• Formal and informal evaluation
• Error analysis
• Remedial and enrichment programmes

Mathematics Group B (Content)

Unit 4 - Number System

• Number System (focus on real and rational numbers)
• Properties in different number systems

Unit 5 - Algebra

• Basic concepts: terms, co-efficient, powers
• Algebraic equations and their applications (with one variable)
• Polynomials – operations in polynomials
• Laws of indices
• Identities

Unit 6 - Commercial Arithmetic

• Percentage and its application (profit and loss, simple and compound, interest, banking, rebate)
• Ratio and proportion
• Variation and its application
• Square, square root, cube, cube root of natural numbers

Unit 7- Shapes and Spatial Relationship

• Triangles and Quadrilaterals
• Angles, complementary and supplementary angles, opposite angles, exterior angles of the triangle
• Angle sum property
• Parallel lines and properties relating to parallel lines
• Congruency and similarities
• Menstruations (area and circumference of circle, higher-order problems relating to area of square, triangle, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezium, Pythagorean theorem)

Science Group A (Pedagogy)

Unit 1 - Nature of Science

Aims and objectives of teaching-learning science at the upper primary stage

Unit 2 - Methods and Approaches

• Methods: Observation, Experimentation, Discovery, Project and Problem- solving
• Approaches: Integrated approach, constructivist approach

Unit 3 - Evaluation in Science

Tools and techniques for assessing learning in Science

Science Group B (Content)

Unit 4- Physical Science

• Metal, Non-metal and Metalloid
• Elements and compounds
• Symbol, valence and chemical equation
• Acid, base and salt
• Physical and chemical changes in matters
• Force, motion, friction, and pressure in solid, liquid and gases
• Electricity and current chemical effects of electric current
• Refraction and reflection of light
• Solar system and planets

Unit 5- Life Science

• Biological adaptation among living beings
• Respiration and transpiration
• Soil and forest resource
• Cell structure and function of cell organelle
• Micro-organisms
• Adolescence in human beings

• Importance of teaching-learning Social Sciences at the Upper Primary stage
• Aims and Objectives of teaching-learning Social Sciences
• Specific objectives of teaching-learning Social Science

• Methods: Survey, fieldwork / trips, project, group work
• Approaches: Activity-based, theme-based

• Tools and technique for assessment of learning in Social Science
• Diagnostic assessment and remedial teaching

• Methods of Historical Studies, Social, Economic and Political Conditions of Sultanate, Moghul and British Period
• Slave, Khiligi, Tughlaq, Lodi Dynasty
• East India Company, British Crown, Impact of British rules, Ancient period, Kharabela, and Ashoka
• Soma, Garganga, Surya, fall of Odisha, Odisha under Moghuls
• Nationalist movement in India
• Development of Nationalism and Europe

• Indian Constitution
• Human Rights
• Governance at the Central, State and Local level
• Political Parties and pressure groups

• Odisha Geography – physical features, climate, agriculture and industry
• Natural resources (land, water, forest and wild animals, minerals)
• Atmosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere
• Earth – crust, internal structure, landscape (hills and mountains, plateau, plains, rivers)
• Temperature zones of the earth