OSSTET TGT Arts Vacancy 2026: Apply Online, Selection Process

 

OSSTET TGT Syllabus 2026 - Overview
 

Conducting Body	Board of Secondary Education, Odisha
Name of the Exam	Odisha Secondary School Teachers Eligibility Test (OSSTET)
Post Name	Trained Graduate Teacher (TGT) - Arts
Exam Level	State
Exam Date 2026	30th September 2026
Mode of Application	Online
Category	Syllabus and Exam Pattern
Official Website	www.bseodisha.ac.in

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Child Development (Process Of Growing Up)
1. Growth and Development
i. Concept and Principles of Development
ii. Difference between growth and development
iii. Factors influencing development (Nutrition, Intelligence, Psychosocial, Heredity, environment, diseases, injury, Siblings & peers)
2. Theories of development
i. Cognitive development theories of Piaget
ii. Language development theories of Noam Chomsky)
iii. Social development theories of Erikson
iv. Moral development theories of Kohlberg
v. Developmental characteristics during childhood ( Physical, Social, Cognitive, and emotional)
vi. Needs and problems at Childhood and adolescence
3. Approaches to Understanding the Nature of Intelligence
i. Psychometric approach (Guilford, Gardner, Thurstone)
ii. Information Processing Approach – Sternberg
iii. Social Constructivist Approach – Vygotsky
4. Addressing Problems of Adolescence
i. Role of Teachers, Parents, and Community
ii. Development of Self – concept of adolescents
iii. Counselling Services for the adolescents
Learning Process / Pedagogy
1. Understanding the Learning Process
i. Learning as a process and as an outcome
ii. Relevance & applicability of theoretical perspectives on learning – Humanistic (Karl Rogers), Constructivist (Piaget and Vygotsky)
iii. Basic Conditions of learning – Readiness, Maturation, Motivation, Maturation, Attention, Task and Methods
2. Organizing Learning
Characteristics and Process of
i. Teacher – centric
ii. Learner – centric
iii. Learning – centric
3. Critical Pedagogy
Concept, Characteristics, Stages & approaches of Critical Pedagogy
4. Addressing Classroom Diversity
i. Using varieties of TLMs
ii. Using Context of the learner
iii. Using Variety of activities while group learning, small group learning, and independent learning
iv. Adopting curriculum to the needs of children with special needs multilingual education.
Educational (School) Management
1. Educational Management
i. Concept, Scope, Importance, and Types – -Centralized and decentralized, Democratic & Autocratic
ii. Structure at National, State, District, and Sub-district (BRCCs, CRCs, SMCs, SMDC) and their roles
2. Management Structure at different levels
i. National
ii. State
iii. District
iv. Subdistricts (BRCs, CRCs, SMCs, SMDC)
3. School Development Plan (SDP)
i. Meaning, Importance, Purpose
ii. Key Actions – Headmaster, Teachers, Students, Parents & SMDC)
4. School-Based Management (SBM)
i. Concept, Importance, Scope, and Process
ii. Objectives of SBM
iii. Resource management – Sources, Utilization & Mobilization
iv. Infrastructural resources
v. Financial Resources
vi. Human resources
vii. Community resources
Assessing The Learner / Performance (Evaluation)
1. Assessment and Evaluation
i. Assessment and evaluation in a constructivists perspective
ii. Concept, Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation, Formative, Summative and Diagnostic Assessment
2. Assessment and Learning
i. Assessment of learning, Assessment for Learning, Assessment as Learning
ii. Subject-based learning from a constructivist perspective
iii. Assessment tools and techniques – Projects, Assignments, observation, Teacher made Tests
iv. Self – Assessment, Peer – Assessment
v. Portfolios, Rubrics
3. Test Construction
i. Steps and principles of Test Construction
ii. Development of blueprint
iii. Preparation of test items
4. Recent Developments in Assessment
i. Grading
ii. Assessment in the co-scholastic area
iii. Implementation strategy of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation
iv. Recommendations of NCF – 2005
 

 

 

Section	Subject	No.of Question	Marks
Section I	Odia	20	20
Section II	English	20	20
Section III	Social Studies For TGT Arts History and Political Science: 15 Geography and Economics: 15 English: 30 Or History and Political Science: 15 Geography and Economics: 15 Odia: 30	60	60
Section IV	Child Development, Pedagogy, School Management & Evaluation	50	50
	Total	150	150