BSS SYLLABUS

BSS DIPLOMA IN PRIMARY EDUCATION (ONE YEAR)
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PAPER I : CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
PAPER II : HEALTH & NUTRITION
PAPER III : SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
PAPER IV : MONTESSORI METHOD OF TEACHING ARTS & CRAFTS
PAPER V : COMMUNICATION ENGLISH & METHODS OF TEACHING
PAPER VI : COMPUTER (WINDOWS & MS OFFICE)
PAPER I : CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
1	What is psychology? Definition of psychology – mass psychology, customer psychology. Client psychology, Labour psychology, criminal psychology – Child psychology. Educational psychology and learning.
2	Emotions of children – Early child hood and later. Child hood – Emotions of small children – love, happiness, sorrow, anger, fear, jealousy, adamancy etc.
3	Actions – parrot age, repetition, limitation, habits, how habits are formed.
4	Physiological changes and mental changes – Growth and Development – personality traits – individual difference
5	Pre – Natal life – period of the ovum and sperms, embryo, fetus, child birth – subsequent stages up to 6 years
6	Needs of children at various stage – physical and motor development – cognitive development – language development – stage of speaking, child talk, babbling
7	Defects of speech – stammering – socio emotional developments – socialization – peer groups – influence of home, family and society – school as an agent of socialization
8	Mental Age and chronical age – I.Q how it is determined. Psycho-mental development – intelligence – personality development
9	Psychology and Learning process – known to unknown, easy to difficult.
10	Motivation – rewards and punishment – Montessori methods of teaching – sense training – didactic apparatus. Nature study – problem relating to sleep, food, temper. How they can be sublimated
11	Children who need special care – mentally retarded children and physically handicapped children – how to help them in learning
12	Importance pf play way in learning – group activities
PAPER II : HEALTH & NUTRITION
1	Health and Hygiene – cleanliness of surroundings, cleaning of the individual – teeth, hair –bath
2	Wearing clean loathes – uniforms – suitable cloth. Cotton / wool etc.
3	Child diseases – Malnutrition – Balance diet. Vitamins, carob hydrates and protein. Minerals. Deficiency diseases, iodine deficiency
4	Other health problem – eyes, ears, nose, throat etc. skin, respiratory and gastro – intestinal problems. first aid and prevention methods
5	Psychological and physical needs of children below 3.Breast feeding – its importance
6	Accidents – indoor and outdoor accidents – prevention and first aid
7	School meal programme – food items to be chosen carefully cooking and serving good habits of eating food and cleaning
8	Immunization and inoculations – DPT, polio drops etc. health cards
PAPER III : SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
1	School management: Place suitable for a Montessori school, Building and site – primary facilities required for games, drinking water, light seating arrangements transports facilities – plan of a suitable building.
2	Montessori method – kinder garden – froebel pre school education preparatory to primary education.
3	Arrangement for medical check ups – Health cards to be maintained, play ground for outdoor play. Minimum play materials required.
4	Registers and records – admission, attendance, progress registers/progress cards, cash book, parents register etc.
PAPER IV : MONTESSORI METHOD OF TEACHING ARTS & CRAFTS
1	Introduction – Montessori principles – stages of development
2	Self correction – recognition of shapes and sizes, colures, boxes cylinders, colure matching – building blocks – bead boxes
3	Developing aesthetic, creative and imaginative abilities – flash cards, story charts, number charts, number game
4	Conversational charts, stories, songs and hand work
5	Types of arts – kinds of drawing – craft work and cutting models
PAPER V : COMMUNICATION ENGLISH & METHODS OF TEACHING
1	Listening practice – teachers speak English using gestures, proper facial expressions and hand movements – students imitate
2	Teachers English must be a modal – knowledge of phonetics, 12 vowels, 8 diphthongs and 24 consonants – Daniel Jones pronouncing dictionary phonetic symbols to be practiced
3	Work stress, sentence stress, intonations – rising and falling intonations – practice
4	Language and communication – listening – speaking, reading and writing – four skills one after the other (Not to start with A.B.C...)
5	Rhymes – teaching for enjoyment – non sense rhymes or nursery rhymes – meaning not important. Tongue twisters – pronunciation, accent and rhymes.
6	Functional English – greeting & formulas to be used in classes. Good morning, Thank you, it’s all right etc…
7	Picture conversation – story picture – story telling – use of appropriate tense forms in stories – structural approach – drills and practices
8	Play way – conversation through play variety use of mother tongue judiciously
9	Reading with clarity and speed – not work but in meaningful phrases – flash cards to be used
10	Writing – strokes and curves first – various drawing of patterns. Introduction to italic writing – Unjoined letters to begin with legibility, beauty and quickness
11	Teacher trainees practical work – speak English only in the English period gestures to be used. Class room formulas such as come here, go to your place, Thank you, good etc. are to be used amply.
12	Conversation in pairs – at the post office, at school, at school at the shop, at the railway station etc. to be practiced
PAPER VI : COMPUTER (WINDOWS & MS OFFICE)
WINDOWS INTRODUCTION
1	Operating System
DESK TOP ICONS
2	My Computer, Recycle Bin, Internet Explorer, Network Neighbourhoods, My Documents
WORKING WITH WINDOWS
3	How to create a Folder, Copying and cutting files, Renaming
START ICON
4	Programs, Favorites, Documents, Settings, Find, Run, Shutdown
APPLICATION ICONS
MS WORD
1. AN INTRODUCTION TO WORD
The word workspace, Starting and quitting word, Creating and Manipulating various Documents, Editing of proofing files, Merging documents and macros.
2. HOW TO USE MOUSE AND MENU
Working with dialog box
3. PRIMARY COMMANDS IN FILE MENU
The Open Commands, The File name commands, The New commands, The Save, Save as and save all commands, the Close command, The page setup, the Print commands, The Exit commands
4. EDIT MENU COMMAND
The cut, copy and Paste commands, The Undo and Repeat commands, Find and And Replace commands.
5. FORMAT COMMANDS
The view menu, the insert menu, the tool menu, the table menu, the window menu
SPREAD SHEET PREPARATION USING MS EXCEL
1. BUILDING A SIMPLE WORKSHEET
Entering Text, Entering Values, Enteriing Dates and Times, Moving Around, Selecting Ranges, Using menu, Using Tool Bar, Using Shortcut Menus, Changing Entries, Copying entries, Moving Entries, Inserting and Deleting cells
2. FORMATTING BASICS
Changing character Style Changing alignment, Changing Column width, Changing Row Height, Sheet rename, Conditional Formatting, auto Formatting
3. WORKING WITH MULTIPLE WORKSHEET
Copying entries between workbooks, Moving sheets between work books, Deleting sheets, Quitting Excel
4. OPENING EXISTING WORKBOOKS
Simple calculations, Doing arithmetic, Totaling column of values, Naming cells and Ranges
5. FORMATTING TEXT
Displaying dollars and cents, formatting decimal places, Formatting dates, copying style And formats.
6. FORMULAS THAT MAKE DECISIONS
Using IF function, using the nested IF function, copying formulas
7. Checking Spelling, Printing Worksheets, Preview Worksheets, Goal seek, Scenarios, Macro, Protection
8. Sorting data, Keeping leading in view, Finding records, Adding and deleting Records Filtering records
9. Plotting charts, Sizing and moving charts, Updating charts, changing the chart type Using Chart auto format
10. Creating Macros Recording Macros, Running Macros.