Mizoram TET Syllabus 2022 for Paper 1 & 2

Mizoram Teacher Eligibility Test 2024 ( Mizoram TET )

Updated on Dec 26, 2022 17:41 IST

Mizoram TET syllabus 2022 is prescribed by the Mizoram Board of School Education (MBSE). The Mizoram TET syllabus differs for Paper 1 (Primary Stage) and Paper 2 (Middle Stage).  Knowing the Mizoram TET 2022 syllabus is the first step toward exam preparation. Candidates should be familiar with the detailed syllabus to have an overview of the subjects or sections and important topics from which the questions will be asked in the exam. Once candidates catch hold of the detailed Mizoram MTET syllabus, they can begin the preparations to crack the exam with flying colours. 

Here, we have provided the detailed paper-wise and subject-wise syllabus for the Mizoram TET 2022 exam. Candidates can refer to the latest Mizoram TET syllabus for Paper 1 and 2 below.

Mizoram TET Syllabus 2022: Overview

Before going through the detailed syllabus below, let's have a look at the overview or highlights of the Mizoram TET (MTET) syllabus below.

Particulars Paper 1 Paper 2
Number of Subjects 5 4
Name of Subjects
  • Child Development and Pedagogy
  • Language-I (English)
  • Language-II (Mizo or Alternative English)
  • Mathematics
  • Environmental Studies
  • Child Development and Pedagogy
  • Language-I (English)
  • Language-II (Mizo or Alternative English)
  • Mathematics and Science or Social Studies/Social Science

Also Read: Mizoram TET exam pattern 2022

Mizoram TET Syllabus 2022

The Mizoram TET syllabus 2022 is divided into two parts- Paper 1 and Paper 2. Both papers comprise four to five sections. There are some common sections or subjects in both Paper 1 and Paper 2 such as Child Development and Pedagogy, Language-I and Language-II. Lets first have a look at the syllabus of common subjects in Paper 1 and Paper 2 below before going through the paper-wise syllabus:

Child Development & Pedagogy Syllabus: Paper 1 & Paper 2

Child Development:

  • Perspective in development: Factors affecting child development, naturalistic observations: interviews, anecdotal records, narratives
  • Physical – Motor Development: Growth and maturation, gross and fine motor development skills in infancy and pre-school children
  • Social and emotional development: Personality development (Freud), psycho-social development (Erikson), attachment: Bowlby, Ainsworth, development of emotions; functions of emotions and the ability to regulate them.
  • Childhood: Childhood in the modern world. How poverty, globalization and adult culture affect the child, commonalities and diversities within the notion of childhood
  • Context of socialization: Concept of socialization, parenting styles, school culture, peer influence, competition, conflict and cooperation

Concept of inclusive education & understanding children with special needs:

  • Inclusive Education: Concept of inclusive education, forms of inclusion and exclusion, addressing inequality and diversity in Indian classroom; pedagogical and curriculum concerns
  • Children with special needs: Identification, assessment and intervention of disability, approaches and skills for teaching children with special needs
  • Gender, School and Society: Social construction of masculinity and femininity, working towards gender equality in the classroom

Teaching & Learning Process: Behaviourism & constructivism and their educational implications, factors affecting learning, motivation for learning, evaluation, concept, process & purpose of evaluation & assessment, evaluation & measurement, continuous and comprehensive evaluation, tools & techniques of evaluation

Teaching Aptitude: Factors affecting teaching, methods & techniques of teaching; learner-centred teaching strategies, classroom management skills: planning and implementation, qualities of a good facilitator, emotional maturity, balanced personality, attitude, values, professional ethics, conduct rules, inculcating democratic ideals and moral value

Alternative English Syllabus: Paper 1 & Paper 2

  • Language Comprehension: Unseen passages - one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability.
  • Pedagogy of Language Learning Mother Tongue and Language Development: Mother tongue: definition and meaning, aims and objectives of teaching first and second language in elementary schools, characteristics and qualities of a good language teacher, four language skills, prose, poetry, vocabulary, grammar, lesson planning, English usage, idioms and phrases, the importance of teaching aids in teaching English, learner assessment, classroom activities
  • Teaching Strategies: Teaching prose, teaching poetry, teaching vocabulary, teaching grammar
  • Classroom activities: role play, dramatization, recitation, extempore speech, debate, storytelling
  • Assessment: concept and purpose, responding to content and form, using portfolios for subjective assessment

English Syllabus: Paper 1 & Paper 2

  • Language Proficiency: Reading unseen passages- one prose or drama or one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability, four language skills, grammar, vocabulary
  • Pedagogy of Language Development: Issues on teaching English, teaching English as a second language and foreign language: developmental, socio-economic and psychological factors, key factors affecting second language acquisition, nature of language

Approaches and Methods of Teaching English: Different approaches to the teaching of English

  • Behaviouristic Approach
  • Structural Approach
  • Cognitive Approach
  • Constructivist Approach
  • Communicative Approach
  • Different methods and techniques of teaching English:
  • Grammar translation method
  • Audio lingual method
  • Direct Method
  • Bilingual Method
  • Planning: Unit planning and lesson planning, English across the curriculum, preparation and use of low-cost teaching aids
  • Teaching Strategies: Four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing, grammar
  • Developing and Assessing: Listening skills, speaking skills, reading skills, writing skills

Also Read: Mizoram TET Admit Card 2022

Mizoram TET Syllabus 2022 for Paper 1: Primary Stage

Let’s now have a look at the Mizoram TET Paper 1 syllabus in detail below for Mathematics and EVS subjects:

Mathematics Syllabus

The Mizoram TET Maths syllabus is divided into two sections- Content and Pedagogical Issues. Have a look at the detailed syllabus below:

Content: Geometry, Shapes & Spatial Understanding, Solids around us, Numbers, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Measurement, Weight, Time, Volume, Data Handling, Patterns, Money

Pedagogical issues:

  • Nature of mathematics/logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning
  • Aims and objectives of teaching mathematics in primary schools
  • Place of mathematics in curriculum
  • Language of mathematics
  • Methods and techniques of teaching mathematics at the primary stage
  • Instructional materials in mathematics, their importance and improvisation
  • Problems of teaching mathematics
  • Assessment in mathematics
  • Concept and purpose
  • Techniques of assessment
  • Assessment tools
  • Diagnostic and remedial teaching
  • Planning for teaching mathematics
  • Annual plan, unit plan, lesson plan
  • Mathematical reasoning
  • Communicating mathematics

Environmental Studies (EVS) Syllabus

The Mizoram TET EVS syllabus is divided into two sections- Content and Pedagogical Issues. Have a look at the detailed syllabus below:

Content:

  • Family and Friends
  • Relationships
  • Work and Play
  • Animals
  • Plants
  • Food
  • Shelter
  • Water
  • Travel
  • Things we do and make

Pedagogical issues:

  • Concept and Scope of EVS: Curriculum organization, EVS as an integrated area of studies, EVS as science and evs as social science
  • Perspective in EVS Learning: How children learn – based on Piaget, Vygotsky and Bruner, preconception and alternative conception in children.
  • Classroom transaction: Methods and techniques of teaching EVS, process skills in EVS, different types of teaching-learning materials for teaching EVS, indicators of learning
  • Assessment in EVS: Concept and purpose of assessment, techniques of assessment, assessment tools

Also Read: Mizoram TET Exam Dates 2022

Mizoram TET Syllabus 2022 for Paper 2: Middle Stage

Have a look at the subject-wise Mizoram TET Paper 2 syllabus below for Mathematics and Science and Social Studies subjects:

Mathematics & Science Syllabus

Mathematics Content:

  • Number system
  • Knowing our numbers
  • Playing with numbers
  • Whole numbers
  • Negative numbers and integers
  • Fractions
  • Algebra including ratio and proportion
  • Geometry
  • Basic geometrical ideas (2D)
  • Understanding elementary shapes (2D and 3D)
  • Symmetry: (Reflection)
  • Mensuration
  • Data handling

Pedagogical issues:

  • Nature of mathematics/logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning
  • Aims and objectives of teaching mathematics in middle schools
  • Place of mathematics in curriculum
  • Language of mathematics
  • Methods and techniques of teaching mathematics at middle stage
  • Instructional materials in mathematics, their importance and improvisation
  • Problems of teaching mathematics
  • Assessment in mathematics
  • Concept and purpose
  • Techniques of assessment
  • Assessment tools
  • Diagnostic and remedial teaching
  • Planning for teaching mathematics
  • Annual plan, unit plan, lesson plan
  • Mathematical reasoning
  • Communicating mathematics

Science content:

  • Food (sources of food, components of food, cleaning food)
  • Materials (materials of daily use)
  • The world of the living
  • Moving things people and ideas
  • How things work (electric current and circuits, magnets)
  • Natural phenomena
  • Natural resources

Pedagogical issues:

  • Aims and objectives of teaching science in elementary school
  • Problems and remedies of teaching science
  • Correlation and interdependence of science with other subjects
  • Educational values of teaching science
  • Qualities of a good science teacher
  • Development of scientific attitude
  • Methods of teaching science in elementary school
  • Science museum, field trips, projects and exhibition
  • Different types of assessment
  • Teaching-learning materials (teaching aids) in science

Social Science/ Social Studies Syllabus

Content:

Our Pasts

  • What, where, how and when?
  • On the trail of the earliest people
  • From gathering to growing food
  • In the earliest cities
  • What books and burials tell us
  • New questions and ideas
  • New kings and kingdoms
  • The Delhi sultans
  • The Mughal empire
  • Towns, traders and craft persons
  • Tribes, nomads and settled communities
  • From trade to territory
  • Ruling the countryside
  • When people rebel - 1857 and after
  • Weavers, iron smelters and factory owners
  • Civilising the “native”, educating the nation
  • The making of the national movement: 1870s-1947
  • India after independence

Geography

  • The earth in the solar system
  • Globe
  • Motions of the earth
  • Environment
  • Inside our earth
  • Air
  • Water
  • Natural vegetation and wildlife
  • Human environment – settlement, transport and communication
  • Resources
  • Land, soil, water, natural vegetation and wildlife resources
  • Agriculture
  • Human resources

Social and Political Life

  • Diversity and discrimination
  • Key element of a democratic government
  • Panchayati raj
  • Rural administration
  • Urban administration
  • Equality in Indian democracy
  • State government
  • Gender
  • Indian constitution and secularism
  • Parliament and the making of laws
  • Social justice and the marginalized

Pedagogical issues:

  • Important themes in social studies
  • Classroom transaction/processes
  • Evaluation in social science/social studies

A. Almost all the sections are scoring in the MTET exam. Candidates find the Child Development and Pedagogy section as the most scoring one. 

Mizoram TET Syllabus 2022 FAQs

Q. What is the syllabus of Mizoram TET?

A. The syllabus of Mizoram TET include topics from the subjects or sections of Paper 1 and Paper 2 from which questions are asked in the exam.

Q. Does the Mizoram TET syllabus change every year?

A. No, the Mizoram TET syllabus remains the same every year.

Q. Who prescribes the Mizoram TET syllabus?

A. The Mizoram TET syllabus is prescribed by the Mizoram Board of School Education (MBSE).

Q. What is the marking scheme for Mizoram TET?

A. In the Mizoram TET exam, a total of 150 questions are asked in each paper and each question carries 1 mark. There is no negative marking in the exam.

Q. Which is the most scoring section of the Mizoram TET exam?

A. According to the experts and qualified candidates, Child Pedagogy and Language Papers are the most scoring papers. Candidates can attain maximum after carefully preparing them.

Q. What is the duration of the Mizoram TET exam?

A. The Mizoram TET exam is of 2 hours 30 minutes duration for each paper.

Q. Is coaching necessary to crack the Mizoram TET exam?

A. No, undertaking coaching is not necessary to crack the Mizoram TET exam. Candidates can undertake the self-study to crack the exam with high scores.

Q. Which section carries the maximum marks in the Mizoram TET exam?

A. In Mizoram TET Paper 1, all the sections carry an equal weightage of 30 marks. However, in Mizoram TET Paper 2, Mathematics and Science or Social Studies section carries maximum marks, that is, 60.

Q. Which are the good books for Mizoram TET exam preparation?

A. There are many books available in the market for Mizoram TET preparation, however, candidates must choose those books that are relevant and cover the entire syllabus.

Q. How much time does it take for Mizoram TET preparation?

A. Generally, it takes around six to seven months to prepare for the Mizoram TET exam.

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