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PSTE 2023 Notification – PSTET New Updates
Punjab State Education Board, Punjab has released the PSTET 2023 Notification on 17 February 2023. Candidates who want to apply online Punjab State Teacher Eligibility Test 2023 for Paper I or II are informed that PSTET 2023 Registration will take place from 18 to 28 February 2023 by visiting the official website at https://www.pstet2023.org/.
PSTET 2023 Notification – PSTET 2023 EXAM DATE
PSTET notification 2023 has been released by the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) on February 18, 2023, on the official website. The PSTET notification 2023 PDF provides information on important aspects relating to the exam such as dates, application, exam pattern, syllabus etc. The PSTET application process 2023 begins after the release of the notification. Candidates must go through the notification before filling out the application form. In this Post , we have provided all the necessary information available in the PSTET notification.
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PSTET 2023 Notification – PSTET Online Application form Details 2023
| Important Dates | |
| Notification | 17 February 2023 |
| Registration | 18 to 28 February 2023 |
| Admit Card | March 2023 (1st Week) |
| Examination | 12 March 2023 |
| Important Details | |
| Country | India |
| State | Punjab |
| Exam | Punjab State Teacher Eligibility Test (PSTET) 2023 |
| Organizer | Punjab School Education Board |
| Paper | I & II |
| Educational Qualification | D.El.Ed. / B.Ed. |
| Age Limit | Not Applicable |
| Application Fee | Rs. 1000/- |
| Helpdesk | Mobile Number: 0183-282-3182 Mail Address: pstet2023.helpdesk@gmail.com |
| Important Links | |
| PSTET 2023 Notification | Click Here |
| PSTET 2023 Registration | Click Here |
| Official Website | https://www.pstet2023.org/ |
How to Fill PSTET 2023 Online Application Form
- Go to the official website of Punjab State Teacher Eligibility Test (PSTET) 2023 at https://www.pstet2023.org/.
- Register Yourself by clicking on New Registration Tab
- Fill in your Name, Father’s Name, Mobile Number, E-Mail ID and Password and complete registration procedure.
- After Registration Login with your credential
- Fill the Application form with proper details
- Upload the Required Documents
- Pay the Application Fee.
- Submit the Application form
- Download the PSTET Application form for future references.
PSTET Exam Pattern 2023
PSTET is conducted in two sessions for Paper 1 and Paper 2. The PSTET Paper 1 is for Classes 1 to 5 teachers and Paper 2 is for Classes 6 to 8 teachers. Check the detailed exam pattern below:
| PSTET Paper 1 Exam Pattern 2023 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Sections | Number of MCQs | Marks |
| Child Development and Pedagogy | 30 | 30 |
| Environmental Studies | 30 | 30 |
| Mathematics | 30 | 30 |
| Language I | 30 | 30 |
| Language II | 30 | 30 |
| Total | 150 | 150 |
| PSTET Paper 2 Exam Pattern 2023 | ||
| PSTET Sections | Number of MCQs | Marks |
| Child Development and Pedagogy | 30 | 30 |
| Language I | 30 | 30 |
| Language II | 30 | 30 |
| Mathematics and Science (for Mathematics and Science teacher)Or, Social Studies (for Social studies teacher)Or, any of the above groups (for any other subject) | 60 | 60 |
| Total | 150 | 150 |
PSTET Syllabus 2023
According to the PSTET notification, there will be two papers: paper 1 and paper 2. The following is the syllabus for both papers:
Punjab TET Syllabus 2023: Paper 1 (Classes I to V) Primary Stage
PSTET Syllabus for Child Development and Pedagogy: 30 Questions
- Child Development (Primary School Child): 15 Questions
• 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 roles, gender bias, and educational practice
• Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on
diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion, etc.
• Distinction between assessment for learning and assessment of learning; school-based assessment, continuous & comprehensive evaluation: perspective and practice
• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.
PSTET Syllabus for Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs: 5 Questions
- Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived.
- Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
- Addressing the Talented, creative, specially-abled learners.
PSTET Syllabus for Learning and Pedagogy: 10 Questions
• How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance
• Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.
• Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
• Alternative conceptions of learning in children; understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process.
• Cognition & Emotions
• Motivation and learning
• Factors contributing to learning- personal & environmental
Punjab TET Syllabus for Language-I (Punjabi): 30 Questions
PSTET Syllabus for Language Comprehension: 15 Questions
Reading unseen passages- two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar, and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative, or discursive)
PSTET Syllabus For Pedagogy of Language Development: 15 Questions
- Learning and acquisition
- Principles of Language Teaching
- Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
- A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form
- Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
- Language Skills
- Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
- Teaching- learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
- Remedial Teaching
Punjab TET Syllabus for Language- II (English): 30 Questions
PSTET Syllabus for Comprehension: 15 Questions
Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar, and verbal ability
PSTET Syllabus for Pedagogy of Language Development: 15Questions
• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of language Teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form;
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching
PSTET Syllabus for Mathematics: 30 Questions
1. Content 25 Questions
• Geometry
• Shapes & Spatial Understanding
• Numbers
• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Division
• Measurement
• Weight
• Time
• Volume
• Data Handling
• Patterns
• Money
• LCM &HCF
• Decimal
Fractions
PSTET Syllabus for Pedagogical Issues: 5 Questions
• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• Evaluation through formal and informal methods
• Problems of Teaching
• Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
• Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching
PSTET Syllabus for Environmental Studies: 30 Questions
1. Content: 25 Questions
• Family and Friends
a) Relationships
b) Work and Play
c) Animals
d) Plants
• Food
• Shelter
• Water
• Travel
•Things We Make and Do
The questions in Paper-I will be based on the topics of the prescribed syllabus of the State for classes I-V, but their difficulty standard, as well as linkages, could be up to the secondary stage.
PSTET Syllabus for Pedagogical Issues: 5 Questions
• Concept and scope of EVS
• Significance of EVS, integrated EVS
• Environmental Studies & Environmental Education
• learning Principles
• Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
• Approaches to presenting concepts
• Activities
• Experimentation/Practical Work
• Discussion
• CCE
• Teaching material/
• Problems
Syllabus of PSTET Paper 2 (Classes VI to VIII) Elementary Stage
I. Child Development and Pedagogy: 30 Questions
1. Child Development (Elementary School Child): 15 Questions
• 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 roles, gender bias, and educational practice
• Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion, etc.
• Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
• Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and assessing learner achievement.
2. Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs: 5 Questions
• Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners
3. Learning and Pedagogy: 10 Questions
• How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance
• Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.
• Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
• Alternative conceptions of learning in children; understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process.
• Cognition & Emotions
• Motivation and learning
• Factors contributing to learning- personal & environmental
II. Language-I (Punjabi): 30 Questions
1. Language Comprehension: 15 Questions
Reading unseen passages- two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar, and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative, or discursive)
2. Pedagogy of Language Development: 15 Questions
• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of language Teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form;
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching
III. Language- II (English): 30 Questions
1. Comprehension: 15 Questions
Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar, and verbal ability
2. Pedagogy of Language Development: 15Questions
• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of language Teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
• Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form;
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors, and disorders
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
• Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching
PSTET Exam Syllabus for Mathematics and Science: 60 Questions
1. Mathematics: 30 Questions
a) Content: 25 Questions
• Number System
a) Knowing our Numbers
b) Playing with Numbers
c) Whole Numbers
d) Negative Numbers and Integers
e) Fractions
• Algebra
a) Introduction to Algebra
b) Ratio and Proportion
• Geometry
a) Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)
b) Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
c) Symmetry: (reflection)
d) Construction (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)
• Mensuration
• Data handling
b) Pedagogical Issues: 5 Questions
• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• Evaluation
• Remedial Teaching
• Problems of Teaching
2. Science: 30 Questions
a) Content: 25 Questions
• Food
• Sources of food
• Components of food
• Cleaning food
• Materials
• Materials of daily use
• Air
• Water
• Change of matter
• Structure of Atom
• Molecule
• Compounds
• Metals & Nonmetals
• Carbon
• Soil
• Acids, base, salt
• The World of the Living organisms, microorganisms and diseases
• Food; production & management
• Moving Things People and Ideas
• Effect of population growth & human activities on the environment
• The Universe
• Force
• Motion
• Work & Energy
• Electric current and circuits
• Magnets & magnetism
• Light
• Sound
• Natural Phenomena
• Natural Resources
• Sources of energy
• Environmental concerns; regional & national
• Pollution
b) Pedagogical issues: 5 Questions
• Nature & Structure of Sciences
• Natural Science/Aims & objectives
• Understanding & Appreciating Science
• Approaches/Integrated Approach
• Observation/Experiment/Discovery(Method of Science)
• Innovation
• Text Material/Aids
• Evaluation- cognitive/psychomotor/affective
• Problems
• Remedial Teaching
PSTET Syllabus for Social Studies/ Social Sciences: 60 Questions
a) Content: 50 Questions
1. History: 20 Questions
• Sources of History— When, Where and How
• The Earliest Societies
• The First Farmers and Herders
• The First Cities
• Early States
• New Ideas
• The First Empire
• Contacts with Distant lands
• Political Developments
• Culture and Science
• New Kings and Kingdoms
• Sultans of Delhi
• Architecture
• Creation of an Empire
• Social Change
• Regional Cultures
• The Establishment of Company Power
• Rural Life and Society
• Colonialism and Tribal Societies
• The Revolt of 1857-58
• Women and reform
• Challenging the Caste System
• The Nationalist Movement
• India After Independence
PSTET Syllabus for Geography: 15 Questions
• Geography as a social study and as a science
• Planet: Earth in the solar system
• Globe
• Environment in its totality: natural and human environment.
• Air
• Water
• Human Environment: settlement, transport, and communication.
• Resources: Types- Natural and Human
• Agriculture
PSTET Syllabus for Social and Political Life (Civics): 15 Questions
• Diversity
• Government
• Local Government
• Making a Living
• Democracy
• State Government
• Understanding Media
• Unpacking Gender
• The Constitution
• Parliamentary Government
• The Judiciary
• Social Justice and the Marginalised
b) Pedagogical issues: 10 Questions
• Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies
• Class Room Processes, activities and discourse
• Developing Critical thinking
• Enquiry/Empirical Evidence
• Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies
• Sources – Primary & secondary
• Projects Work
• Evaluation