Syllabus for High School Teacher (English) in Education

DETAILED SYLLABUS FOR THE POST OF HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER (ENGLISH) IN EDUCATION-BY TRANSFER

PART I

Module I : Renaissance and freedom movement (5 Marks)

Module II: General Knowledge and current affairs (10 Marks)

PART II

Module III: Methodology of teaching the subject (5 Marks)

1.  History/conceptual development. Need and Significance, Meaning Nature and Scope of the Subject.
2. Correlation with other subjects and life situations.
3. Aims, Objectives, and Values of Teaching – Taxonomy of Educational Objectives – Old and revised
4. Pedagogic analysis- Need, Significance and Principles.
5. Planning of instruction at Secondary level- Need and importance. Psychological bases of Teaching the subject – Implications of Piaget, Bruner, Gagne, Vygotsky, Ausubel and Gardener – Individual difference, Motivation, Maxims of teaching.
6. Methods and Strategies of teaching the subject- Models of Teaching, Techniques of individualising instruction.
7. Curriculum – Definition, Principles, Modern trends and organizational approaches, Curriculum reforms – NCF/KCF.
8.  Instructional resources- Laboratory, Library, Club, Museum- Visual and Audio-Visual aids – Community based resources – e-resources – Text book, Work book and Hand book.
9. Assessment; Evaluation- Concepts, Purpose, Types, Principles, Modern techniques – CCE and Grading- Tools and techniques – Qualities of a good test – Types of test items- Evaluation of projects, Seminars and Assignments – Achievement test, Diagnostic test – Construction, Characteristics, interpretation and remediation.
10. Teacher – Qualities and Competencies – different roles – Personal Qualities – Essential teaching skills – Microteaching – Action research.

PART III (80 Marks)

Module 1. Poetry

1. Shakespeare Sonnet 121
2. Donne A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
3. Milton On His Blindness
4. Gray Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
5. Wordsworth Tintern Abbey
6. Shelley To A Skylark
7. Keats Ode On A Grecian Urn
8. Tennyson Ulysses
9. Browning My Last Duchess
10. Arnold Dover Beach
11. W.B.Yeats A Prayer For My Daughter
12. Sylvia Plath Daddy
13. Tagore Where The Mind Is Without Fear
14. Nissim Ezekiel Night Of The Scorpion
15. Kamala Das An Introduction
16. A.K.Ramanujan Obituary
17. Robert Frost Home Burial
18. Emily Dickinson Because I Could Not Stop For Death
19. Wole Soyinka A Telephone Conversation
20. Meena Alexander House Of A Thousand Doors
21. Margaret Atwood This Is A Photograph Of Me
22. David Diop Africa
23. Jack Davis Aboriginal Australia

Module 2. Drama

1. Shakespeare Macbeth
2. Sheridan School For Scandal
3. Oscar Wilde The Importance Of Being Ernest
4. Ibsen A Doll’s House
5. Shaw Pygmalion
6. J.M.Synge Riders To The Sea
7. Samuel Beckett Waiting For Godot
8. Arthur Miller Death Of A Salesman
9. Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
10. Girish Karnad Nagamandala

Module 3: Prose and Fiction

1. Francis Bacon Of Studies
2. Steele The Trumpet Club
3. A.G. Gardiner On The Rule Of The Road
4. E.M. Forster On Tolerance
5. Bertrand Russel Functions Of A Teacher
6. Dr.Radhakrishnan Humanities vs Science
7. Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
8. George Orwell Animal Farm
9. Hemingway The Old Man And The Sea
10. Shashi Deshpande Roots and Shadows
11. Arundati Roy The God Of Small Things
12. Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye

Module 4: .Literary Criticism/ Terms

1. Rasa
2. Dhwani
3. Aristotle: Poetics
4. Wordsworth: Preface To Lyrical Ballads
5. Coleridege: Biographia Litereria Chapter 14
6. Arnold: Study of Poetry
7. Eliot:Tradition And The Individual Talent
8. Saussure: Nature Of The Linguistic Sign
9. Showalter:Towards A Feminist Poetics

Terms and Movements ( Based on the latest edition of M.H.Abrams-A Glossary Of Literary Terms Classicism, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Humanism, Realism, Magical Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Russian Formalism, Marxism, Structuralism, Post Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalytical Criticism, Feminism, Post Colonialism, Modernism and Post Modernism

Module 5: Linguistics, Phonetics and History of Language

1. Phonology
2. Morphology
3. Syntax
4. Semantics
5. Langue and Parole; Competence and Performance
6. Organs of Speech
7. Classification Of Speech Sounds
8. Stress, Rhythm, Intonation
9. Transcription
10. Indo-European Family of languages
11. Loan Words-Latin, Scandinavian, French, Indian
12. Englishes-American, Australian, Indian, and African

Module 6: Modern English Usage

1. Sentence Correction
2. Vocabulary
3. Synonyms and Antonyms
4. Give one word
5. Commonly confused words
6. Language Functions such as agreeing, complaining etc.
7. Appropriate word order
8. Appropriate sentence order
9. Idioms
10. Passage for comprehension

Module 7: Basic Grammar

1. Article
2. Prepositions
3. Clauses
4. Tenses
5. Phrasal Verbs
6. Conjunctions
7. Reported Speech
8. Voice
9. Question Tag
10. Transformation of sentences

Module 8: Teaching of English

1. Schools-Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism
2. Skills and subskills of Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
3. Language Acquisition and Learning, Krashen
4. Methods and Approaches: Grammar Translation; Audio-lingual; Direct Method; Structural-OralSituational Approach; Communicative Approach; Bilingual Method; Humanistic Approaches
5. Use of AV aids and ICT
6. Teaching of Prose, Poetry and Grammar
7. Testing and Evaluation
8. Learner Types
9. Teaching learners with disability
10. NCF, KCF on teaching of English

NOTE: – It may be noted that apart from the topics detailed above, questions from other topics prescribed for the educational qualification of the post may also appear in the question paper. There is no undertaking that all the topics above may be covered in the question paper