Date of West Bengal SSC Examination

I want to give West Bengal SSC Examination so please give me the information regarding dates and syllabus?

[Kiran Chandar]

West Bengal School Service Commission conducts SSC exam for the purpose of recruitment of Assistant Teacher and Headmaster/ Headmistress in recognized Non-Government aided Schools in West Bengal.

Recruitment Exam’s Tentative Date:

Stay order for 3 weeks on WBSSC TET Exam that was scheduled: 29th March 2014.

WBSSC TET Syllabus:

WBSSC Paper II- Child Development and Pedagogy Syllabus -30 Questions
I. Child Development and Pedagogy 15 Questions
Child Development (Elementary School Child)
. • 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)
. • Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
. • Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
. • Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
. • Multi Dimensional Intelligence
. • Language & Thought
. • Gender as a social construct; gender-bias and educational practice
. • Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based
. • Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning
• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels
. • Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged
. • Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’
. • Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners

Learning and Pedagogy 10
. • How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve
. • Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies
. • Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’ Alternative
. • Cognition & Emotions
. • Motivation and learning
. • Factors contributing to learning personal & environmental

WBSSC Paper II - Language-II Syllabus Total Marks 30
Questions
a)Comprehension 15 Questions
Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
b) Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions
. • Learning and acquisition
. • Principles of language Teaching
. • Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children
. • Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language • Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors
. • Language Skills
. • Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening
. • Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials
. • Remedial Teaching

WBSSC Paper II- Language I Syllabus
Total Marks 30
a) Language Comprehension 15- Marks
b) Pedagogy of Language Development 15- Marks