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RMSA- Recruitment to Model Schools Category of Post: TGT - English Syllabus Part – I GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AND CURRENT AFFAIRS (Marks: 10) Part – II PERSPECTIVES IN EDUCATION (Marks: 10) 1. Education: Meaning, Aims of Education, Functions of Education, Types of Education; Constitutional Provisions, important articles and their Educational implications for General and disabled population; Universalization of Elementary Education - Schemes and Programmes to achieve UEE like OBB, APPEP, DPEP, SSA, Open schools, Mid-day-Meals; Recommendations of various committees and commissions during pre-independent and post-independent period. 2. Teacher Empowerment: Meaning, interventions for empowerment, Professional code of conduct for teachers, Teacher motivation, professional development of Teachers and Teacher organizations, National / State Level Organizations for Teacher Education, Maintenance of Records and Registers in Schools. 3. Educational Concerns in Contemporary India : Inclusive Education: Conceptual Clarification and Definition, Prevalence, Myths & Facts, Characteristics, Classification & Types, Importance of Early Identification and Assessment, Planning Inclusive Education, Programming and Classroom Management in Inclusive Education, Evaluation, Documentation and Record Maintenance, Psycho-Social management, Awareness & Sensitization Strategies; Environmental Education: Concept, Objectives of Environmental Education, Environment and Natural Resources; Environmental Pollution – causes and effects and measures for the protection of environment, Development of Environmental Values through Environmental Education. Literacy: Saakshar Bharat Mission, National Programme for Education of Girls at Elementary Level (NPEGEL) School Health Programme, Disaster Management, Population education, Adolescence Education and Life Skills, Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization, Value Education 4. Acts / Rights: Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 and Andhra Pradesh Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules 2010 and Child Rights. 5. National Curriculum Framework, 2005: Perspective, Learning and Knowledge, Curricular Areas, School Stages and Assessment, School and Classroom Environment, Systemic Reforms. Part - III CONTENT (Marks: 44) I. Reading Comprehension of an unseen prose text. II. Language and Communication - Parts of Speech - Articles-Determiners - Conjunctions (Linkers/Connectors/ Cohesive devices) - Prepositions - Adverbs –Types and their order in sentences - Tense and Time - Adjectives including Degrees of Comparison RMSA – TGT - English Page 1

- Modals - Clauses - Types of Sentences - Voice - Direct and Indirect Speech - Non-finites (Infinitives, Gerunds and Participles) - Phrasal Verbs/Idioms/Prepositional Phrases - Punctuation Marks - Aspects of Pronunciation (Sounds, Stress and Intonation) - Composition- Letter writing, Message writing, Notice writing, Report writing, Article writing, Paragraph writing and Précis writing III. Literature A. Reading Comprehension of a literary Prose and Poem B. Poetry Name of the poet Title William Shakespeare Let Me Not To The Marriage of True Minds(A sonnet) John Milton On Time On Shakespeare William Wordsworth A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal The World Is Too Much With Us William Blake The Divine Image The School Boy John Keats On The Grasshopper and The Cricket Ode to The Nightingale John Donne A Literature Upon the Shadow W.B.Yeats The Wild Swans of Coole For Anne Gregory The Lake Isle of Innisfree S.T.Coleridge Kubla Khan Emily Dickinson Trees Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Dust of Snow Fire and Ice Rabindranath Tagore The Last Bargain C. Prose (Essay/Short Story/Novel) Name of the Essayist/Writer/Novelist Oscar Wilde Stephen Leacock E.V.Lucas O’Henry Isaac Asimov R.K. Laxman George Orwell D. Drama Name of the Writer William Shakespeare

Title The Nightingale and The Rose How to Live to be 200 The face on the Wall After Twenty Years Robots and People The Gold Frame Animal Farm (Original version) Title Julius Caesar Macbeth Hamlet Mother’s Day(one act play) Page 2

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Note: The candidates are expected to have a thorough knowledge of the above mentioned poets, essayists, novelists and dramatists and their respective works mentioned at the level that is expected of a student of literature. Part IV Teaching Methodology (Marks: 16) 1. Aspects of English language- History, Nature, Importance of English. 2. Problems and Principles of Teaching English. 3. Objectives of Teaching English. 4. Approaches, Methods and Techniques of Teaching English. 5. Developing Language Skills-Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. 6. Teaching – Learning material – development, preparation and use (including use of ICT). 7. Developing Study and Reference Skills. 8. Remedial Teaching. 9. Evaluation in teaching / learning process. 10. Lesson planning. 11. Curriculum and Textbooks- Development and Use.

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