AP DSC PGT (English) Syllabus 2026, Exam Pattern, Exam Date 2026
Detail Information about AP DSC has published notification 2026 for the recruitment of PGT (English) vacancies. Those Candidates who are Interested to the following vacancy and completed all Eligibility Criteria can read the Notification & Apply Online. In this page we provide the Complete Syllabus of this Recruitment with Latest Update Exam Pattern and the Exam Date also.
AP DSC Teacher Syllabus 2026 - Overview
| Name of Recruitment |
AP DSC Teacher Recruitment 2026 |
| Recruitment Full Name |
District Selection Committee (DSC), Andhra Pradesh |
| Conducting Body |
School Education Department, Andhra Pradesh |
| Post Name |
PGT (English) |
| Number of Vacancies |
81 |
| Mode of Exam |
Online |
| Mode of Application |
Online |
| Job Location |
Andhra Pradesh |
| Category |
Syllabus and Exam Pattern |
| Official Website |
tet2dsc.apcfss.in |
AP DSC PGT (English) Paper 2 Syllabus 2026
Part I – General Knowledge and Current Affairs :
1. Important syllabus topics include Static GK topics such as – freedom fighters of India, Indian constitution, geography, headquarters of international organizations etc.
2. Current events and latest happenings worldwide from the past 1 year also feature prominently.
3. Candidates need to keep themselves updated with important policy decisions of central and state governments, key personalities in politics, important days and dates, sports, awards and honors, budgets and economic surveys, science and technology etc.
4. Questions test fundamental GK in areas including history, culture, economy, polity and governance.
5. As this section carries significant weightage, candidates must prepare extensively by regularly reading newspapers, magazines and referring to standard GK books and current affairs resources.
Part II – Perspectives in Education :
1. History of Education –
a. The Education in Ancient India – Pre-Vedic and Post-Vedic period – Medieval Education
b. Education in Pre Independent era – Woods Despatch (1854) – Hunter Commission (1882) – Hartog Committee (1929) – Sargent Committee (1944)
c. Education in Post Independent era - Mudaliar Commission (1952-53) – Kothari Commission (1964-66) – Ishwarbhai Patel committee (1977) – NPE-1986 – POA-1992
2. Teacher Empowerment –
a. Need, interventions for empowerment
b. Professional code of conduct for teachers
c. Teacher motivation
d. Professional development of Teachers and Teacher organizations
e. National / State Level Organizations for Teacher Education
f. Maintenance of Records and Registers in Schools.
3. Educational Concerns in Contemporary India –
a. Democracy and Education, Equality, Equity, Quality in Education, Equality of Educational opportunities.
b. Economics of Education, Education as Human Capital, Education and Human Resource Development, Literacy - Saakshar Bharat Mission.
c. Population Education, Gender - Equality, Equity and Empowerment of Women, Urbanization and migration, Life skills.
d. Adolescence Education
e. Value Education – Moral Value and Professional Ethics in Education.
f. Health and Physical Education · Inclusive Education - Classroom Management in Inclusive Education
g. Role of Education in view of Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization
h. Programmes and Projects – APPEP, DPEP, SarvaSikshaAbhiyan, National Programme for Education of Girls at Elementary Level (NPEGEL), Rashtriya Madhyamika Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), KGBVs, Model Schools, Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA)
i. Incentives and special provisions – Mid Day Meals, Free Books, Scholarship, Awards, Welfare Hostels, Transportation.
j. Current Trends in Education
4. Acts / Rights –
a. Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act - 2009
b. Right to Information Act - 2005
c. Child Rights
d. Human Rights
5. National Curriculum - Framework, 2005 : Perspective, Guiding Principles, Learning and Knowledge, Teaching Learning Process, Assessment, Systemic Reforms
6. National Educational Policy 2020
Part III - Classroom implications of Educational Psychology :
1. Development Of Child
i. Development, Growth & Maturation — Concept & Nature
ii. Principles of development and their education implication
iii. Factors influencing Development — Biological, Psychological, Sociological, emotional.
iv. Dimensions of Development and their interrelationships — Physical & Motor, Cognitive, Emotional, Social, Moral, Language relating to Infancy, early Childhood, late Child hood, adolescence.
v. Understanding Development — Piaget, Kohlberg, Chomsky, Carl Rogers, Erikson
vi. Individual differences — Infra & Inter Individual differences in the areas of Attitudes, Aptitude, Interest, Habits, Intelligence and their Assessment.
vii. Development of Personality — Concept, Factors effecting development of personality, self concept.
viii. Adjustment, Behavioural problems, Mental Health, Defense mechanism.
ix. Methods and Approaches of Child Development — Introspection, Observation, Interview, Case study, Experimental, Cross sectional and Longitudinal
x. Developmental tasks and Hazards
2. Understanding Learning
i. Concept, Nature of Learning — input — process — outcome
ii. Factors of Learning — Personal and Environmental
iii. Approaches to Learning and their applicability—Behaviorism (Skinner, Pavlov, Thorndike) Constructivism (Piaget, Vygotsky), Gestalt(Kohler, Koffka) and Observational (Bandura)
iv. Dimensions of Learning — Cognitive, Affective and Performance.
v. Motivation and Sustenance —its role in learning.
vi. Memory & Forgetting
vii. Transfer of Learning
3. Pedagogical Concerns
i. Teaching and its relationship with learning and learner.
ii. Learners in Contexts: Situating learner in the socio-political and cultural context
iii. Children from diverse contexts—Children With Special Needs (CWSN), Inclusive Education.
iv. Understanding of pedagogic methods — Enquiry based learning, Project based learning, Survey, Observation and Activity based learning, Cooperative and collaborative learning.
v. Individual and Group learning: Issues and concerns with respect to organizing learning in class room like Study habits, Self learning and Learning to learn skills.
vi. Organizing learning in heterogeneous class room groups — Socio-economic background, Abilities and Interest.
vii. Paradigms of organizing Learning-Teacher centric, Subject centric and Learner centric.
viii. Theory of instruction – Bruner
ix. Teaching as Planned activity — Elements of Planning
x. Phases of Teaching — Pre active, Interactive and Post active
xi. General and Subject related skills, competencies required in teaching and attributes of good facilitator.
xii. Learning resources — Self, Home, School, Community, Technology.
xiii. Class room Management: Role of student, teacher, Leadership style of teacher, Creation of non threatening learning environment, Managing behaviour problems, Guidance &Counselling, Punishment and its legal implications, Rights of a child, Time Management.
xiv. Distinction between Assessment for Learning & Assessment of Learning, School based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation : Perspective & Practice.
xv. Understanding teaching & learning in the context of NCF, 2005 & Right to Education Act, 2009.
PART - IV
IV.Content:
Classes VI to 3 years Bachelor Degree course in A.P. State
1. Reading Comprehension of an unseen prose text
2. Language and Communication
1. Parts of Speech
2. Articles-Determiners
3. Conjunctions (Linkers/Connectors/ Cohesive devices).
4. Prepositions
5. Adverbs –Types and their order in sentenses.
6. Tense and Time
7. Adjectives including Degrees of Comparison
8. Modals
9. Word Order in Sentences
10. Clauses
11. Types of Sentences
12. Voice
13. Direct and Indirect Speech
14. Non-finites (Infinitives, Gerunds and Participles)
15. Complex and Compound Sentences
16. Phrasal Verbs/Idioms/Prepositional Phrases
17. Punctuation Marks
18. Phonetics -Sounds, Stress and Intonation, Minimal Pairs, Minimal Contrastive Pairs
19. Composition- Letter writing, Message writing, Notice writing, Report writing, Article writing, Paragraph writing and Precis writing
3. Literature
A. Detailed study of English Literature from 1798 to 1900 with special reference to Wordsworth, S.T.Coleridge, John Keats , Shelley, Lord Byron, Charles Lamb, Charles Dickens, William Hazlitt, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Mathew Arnold, George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin.
B. Reading Comprehension of a literary Prose and Poem
C. Poetry
Name of the Poet : Title
1. William Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage of True - Minds (A sonnet)
2. John Milton - On Time, On Shakespeare
3. William Wordsworth - The Solitary Reaper, Education of Nature, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, The World Is Too Much With Us
4. William Blake - A Poison Tree, The Divine Image The School Boy
5. John Keats - On The Grasshopper and The Cricket, Ode to The Nightingale, Ode to Autumn
6. John Donne A Literature Upon the Shadow - The Sunne Rising
7. W.B.Yeats - The Wild Swans of Coole, Byzantium, The Second Coming
8. S.T.Coleridge - The Rime of The Ancient Mariner
9. P.B.Shelly - The Cloud
10. Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken, Dust of Snow, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy, Evening
11. Rabindranath Tagore - The Last Bargain, Where The Mind is Without Fear, From Lover’s Gift
12. Sarojini Naidu - The Bangle Sellers
D. Prose (Essay/Short Story/Novel)
Name of the Essayist/Writer/Novelist : Title
1. Francis Bacon - Of Studies
2. Charles Lamb - Dream Children-A Reverie
3. Oscar Wilde - The Nightingale and The Rose
4. Stephen Leacock - How to Live to be 200, The Conjuror’s Revenge
5. E.V.Lucas - The face on the Wall
6. O’Henry - After Twenty Years
7. Isaac Asimov - Robots and People
8. A.G.Gardiner - On Shaking Hands
9. R.K. Laxman - The Gold Frame
10. Ruskin Bond How Far is the River
11. George Orwell - Animal Farm (Original version)
12. R.K.Narayan - Next Sunday, The Guide
13. Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
14. Jawahar Lal Nehru - Chapter III (The Quest) of Discovery of India
E. Drama
Name of the Writer Title
1. William Shakespeare - The Tempest, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Hamlet
2. Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
3. Fritz Karinthy - The Refund
4. Mahaswetha Devi - Mother of 1084
F. Literary Criticism
1. Mathew Arnold: The Study of Poetry
2. T. S. Eliot: Function of Criticism
V. Teaching Methodology
1. Aspects of English language- History, Nature and 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. Planning - Lesson planning.
11. Curriculum and Textbooks- Development and Use.
AP DSC PGT (English) Paper 2 Exam Pattern 2026
Duration : 3 Hours
| Part |
Subject |
No.of Question |
Marks |
| Part I |
General Knowledge and Current Affairs |
20 |
10 |
| Part II |
Perspectives in Education |
20 |
10 |
| Part III |
Classroom implications of Educational Psychology |
20 |
10 |
|
Part IV
|
Content of concerned subject |
100 |
50 |
| Methodology of concerned subject |
40 |
20 |
| |
Total |
200 |
100 |
AP DSC Exam Date 2026 : Notified Soon
Starting Date of Application Form : 13th October 2026
Last Date of Application Form : 03rd November 2026
Total Post : 81
