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Special Education Teacher Syllabus Revised
Special Education Teacher Syllabus Revised
Recruitment Exams
(PRT/TGT/PGT)
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Special Education
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DSSSB, AEES, Chandigarh, Rajasthan & Other
State Special Education Teacher Recruitment Exams
d. Format of IEP
e. Definition and Concept of IFSP
f. IEP vs. IFSP
4. Group Teaching
a. Definition and Concept
b. Forming of Groups
c. Work & Management of Groups
d. Micro Teaching
e. Steps of Micro Teaching
36-47
f. Indian Model of Micro Teaching
g. Macro teaching
h. Difference between Micro & Macro Teaching
i. Lesson Plan
j. Herbert Lesson Plan
k. Herbertian Lesson Plan Model
5. Assessment and Evaluation
a. Assessment – Meaning and Definition
b. Purpose of Assessment
c. Assessment for Learning
d. Assessment of Learning
e. Assessment as Learning
f. Difference between Assessment for Learning, of Learning, as
Learning 48-58
g. Types of Assessment
h. Tools of Assessment
i. Plus Curriculum & Expanded Curriculum
j. Evaluation – Meaning and Definition
k. Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation
l. Diffence between Assessment & Evaluation
m. Grading
6. Assessment tools for CWSN
a. Upanayan
b. NIMH – Aarambh (Early Childhood Special Education
Inclusive Package)
c. Portage Guide
d. Functional Assessment Checklist Programming (FACP)
e. Functional Assessment Checklist Programming – Profound
59-75
Mental Retardation (FACP – PMR)
f. Madras Developmental Programming System (MDPS)
g. Behavioral Assessment Scale for Indian Children – Mental
Retardation (BASIC – MR)
h. Behavioral Assessment Scale for Adult Living – Mental
Retardation (BASAL – MR)
i. Educational Assessment Checklist for Children with Intellectual
Disabilities (EACCID)
j. Psycho-Educational Profile (PEP)
k. Adolescents and Adults Psycho Educational Profile (AAPEP)
l. Vineland Social Maturity Scale (VSMS)
m. Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills (ABBLS)
n. Grade Level Assessment Device (GLAD)
o. Dyslexia Assessment for Languages of India (DALI)
p. Indian Scale for Assessment of Autism (ISAA)
q. Vocational Assessment and Programming System (VAPS)
r. Functional Skills Inventory for the Blind (FSIB)
s. Low Vision Assessment by Jill Keeffe
t. Lea Test
u. Adapted Blind Learning Aptitude Test
v. Cornell Medical Index for Visually Handicapped Children
7. Screening Tools for CWSN
a. Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (BSID)
b. Developmental Screening Test (DST) by Bharat Raj
c. Gesell Developmental Schedules
d. Kaufmann Assessment Battery for Children
e. APGAR Score 76-78
f. Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (CHAT)
g. Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT)
h. Autism Spectrum Screening Questionnaire (ASSQ)
i. Behavioural Checklist for Screening the Learning Disabled
(BCSLD)
8. Diagnostic Tools for CWSN
a. Diagnostic Statistical Manual - Mental Disorders (DSM-V)
b. International Classification of Disease (ICD-11)
c. Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS)
d. Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R)
e. Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS)
f. Gilliam Autism Rating Scale (GARS)
g. INCLEN Diagnostic Tool for Autism Spectrum Disorder 79-83
(INDT-ASD)
h. Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)
i. Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM)
j. Colored Progressive Matrices (CPM)
k. Diagnostic Test of Learning Disability (DTLD)
l. Diagnostic Test of Reading Disorder (DTRD)
m. Aston Index
9. Inclusive and Integrated Education
a. Inclusive Education Meaning & Definition
84-91
b. Aims & Objectives of Inclusive Education
c. Ways of Inclusive Education in School Education and its
Premises
d. Types of Inclusive Education
e. Relationship to Universal Design for Learning
f. Diffence between Exclusion, Segregation, Integration &
Inclusion
g. Integrated Education Meaning & Definition
h. Special Education
i. Mainstreaming
j. Marginalization vs. Inclusion
10. Barriers in Inclusive Education 92-94
11. Family
a. Definition and Concept
b. Family Diversity
c. Importance of Family
95-100
d. Parenting
e. Role of Family in Child Development
f. Role of Family in Education
g. Role of family in living of PwD
12. Rehabilitation & Rehabilitation Services
a. Definition and Concept of Rehabilitation
b. Rehabilitation Elements
c. Range & Scope of Rehabilitation
101-106
d. Definition and Concept of Habilitation
e. Habilitation vs. Rehabilitation
f. Rehabilitation Services
g. Rehabilitation Team
13. Orientation and Mobility
a. Definition and Concept of Orientation and Mobility
b. History of Orientation and Mobility
c. Importance of Orientation and Mobility 107-112
d. Skills included in Orientation and Mobility
e. Sensory Training & Mobility
f. Types of Mobility Techniquies
14. Universal Design for Learning – UDL
a. Meaning & Concept
b. Features of UDL
c. Principles of UDL
d. UDL Strategies during Instruction
e. UDL Strategies When Establishing Course Policies 113-122
f. UDL Strategies When Designing Assessments
g. Assessment Technology for UDL
h. Types of Assisstive Technology
i. UDL vs. Traditional Classroom
j. SAMR Model of Classroom Technology
Part – B (Disability)
Sr. No. Topic Page No.
1. Disability
a. Meaning & Concept 135-137
b. Classification of Disability
2. Definition of Disabilities in Indian Acts
a. Rehabilitation Council of India, Act 1992
b. Person with Disability, Act 1995
138-141
c. National Trust, Act 1999
d. Rights of Person with Disability, Act 2016
e. The Mental Health Care, Act 2017
3. Definition of Disabilities in IDEA, Act 2004 142-143
4. Prevention of Disability
a. Definition & Concept of Prevention
b. Proximodistal Level of Prevention
c. Primary Level Prevention 144-146
d. Secondary Level Prevention
e. Tertiary Level Prevention
f. Quarternary Level of Prevention
5. Role of National Institutes in the field of Disability
a. National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Visual
Disabilities (NIEPVD)
b. Ali Yavar Jung National Institute of Speech and Hearing
Disabilities (AYJNISHD)
c. National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with 147-153
Intellectual Disabilities (NIEPID)
d. National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple
Disabilities (NIEPMD)
e. Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya National Institute for Persons with
Physical Disabilities (PDUNIPPD)
11. Intelligence
a. Meaning & Definition
b. Assessment of Intelligence, Mental Age and Intelligence
Quotient 362-366
c. Types of Intelligence Test
d. Intelligence Testing in India
e. Importance of Intelligence Test in Education
12. Domains Related to Cognition - Metacognition, Creativity, Ethics 367-371
13. Motivation
a. Concept & Definition
b. Categories of Motives
372-375
c. Types of Motivation
d. Importance of Motivation in Education
e. Role of Motivation in Learning
14. Brain, its parts & their functions 376-379
15. Principles & Theories of Psychology
a. Cognitive Principle
i. Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory
ii. Bruner’s Cognitive Development Stages
b. Principles of Learning
i. Transfer of Learning Meaning & Definition Psycholo
ii. Trial & Error gy
iii. Laws of Thorndike Theories
iv. Classical Conditioning &
v. Operant Conditioning Principle
vi. Watson Experiment s are
vii. Kohler Theory of Learning/Theory of Understanding/Theory available
of Insight, Constructivism, Experiential Learning Theory separatel
c. Theory of Intelligence y.
i. Uni–factor Theory Those
ii. Bi–factor Theory who wish
iii. Three factors theory of Intelligence to avail
iv. Thorndike Multi Factor Theory of Intelligence may
v. Thurston’s Group factors Intelligence Theory contact
vi. Thomson's Sampling Theory of Intelligence on the
vii. Kettel’s Theory of Intelligence given
viii. Burt and Vernon's Hierarchical Theory of Intelligence number
ix. Guilford’s Three-Dimensional Theory of Intelligence 75994611
x. Kelley’s theory of Intelligence 86.
xi. Sternberg Triarchic Theory
xii. Gardner Theory of Multiple Intelligence
d. Theory of Social Development
i. Vygotsky Social Development Theory
ii. Zone of Proximal Development
b. Purpose of Guidance
c. Scope of Guidance
d. Principles of Guidance
e. Types of Guidance
f. Concept & Definition of Counselling
g. Levels of Counselling
h. Difference between Guidance & Counselling
f. Humanism
g. Pragmatism
h. Constructivism
i. Connectionism
e. Kinder garden
f. Project Method
g. Multisensory Method
h. Braille Method
i. Structured TEACCH – Treatment and Education of Autistic and
Related Communications Handicapped Children
j. Lecture Method
k. Discussion Method
l. Story Telling Method
m. Demonstration Method
n. Heuristic Method
o. Dalton Method
p. Socrates Method
q. Inductive and Deductive Method
r. Analytic and Synthesis Method
s. DHVANI Method for Children with Hearing Impairment
8. Stages of Learning
a. Acquisition
b. Fluency
496-497
c. Maintenance
d. Generalization
e. Adaptation
9. Teaching Strategies
a. Task Analysis
b. Shaping
c. Chaining
d. Reinforcement
e. Prompting 498-500
f. Fading
g. Total Task Presentation
h. Modeling
i. Imitation
j. Generalization
10. Principles of Teaching or Teaching Maxims
a. Simple to Complex
b. Known to Unknown
c. Concrete to Abstract
d. Direct to Indirect
e. Specific to General 501-502
f. Analytic to Synthetic
g. Psychological to Rationale
h. Experience to Reasonable
i. Whole to Part
j. Indefinite to Definite
k. Near to Afar
11. Training Skills for Mental Retardation/Autism/Mental
Illness/Learning Disability, etc.
a. School Readiness Skills
b. Self Help Skills
c. Pre–Academic Skills 503-504
d. Functional Academic Skills–Reading, Writing & Maths
e. Functional Academic Skills–Science & Social Science
f. Social & Recreational Skills
g. Vocational Skills
12. Subject Teaching – Teaching Methods for CWSN
a. Pedagogy of Language Teaching
i. Principles of Language Teaching
ii. Methods of Language Teaching
iii. Techniques of Language Development
iv. Development of Four Basic Language Skills – Listening,
Speaking, Reading, and Writing
v. Accommodation in Approaches and Techniques in Teaching
Children with Disabilities
b. Pedagogy of Science Teaching
i. Techniques of Teaching Science
ii. Methods of Teaching Science
505-519
c. Pedagogy of Math Teaching
i. Techniques of Teaching Math
ii. Methods of Teaching Math
iii. Teaching - Learning Resources in Mathematics for Students
with Disabilities
d. Pedagogy of Social Science & EVS Teaching
i. Methods of Teaching Social Science
ii. Devices and Techniques of Teaching Social Studies
iii. Instructional Material for Teaching of Social Science
iv. Adaptations of Material for Teaching Children with
Disabilities
e. Co–Scholastic
13. Blooms Taxonomy
a. Cognitive Domain (Knowledge Based)
b. Affective Domain (Emotion Based) 520-524
c. Psychomotor Domain (Action Based)
d. Modified Domains of Bloom Taxonomy
14. Indian Sign Language, Lips Reading & Cued Speech 525-528
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