| Syllabus Home |
| CRECHE AND PRE- SCHOOL MANAGEMENT - Duration One Year |
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| Qualification : SSLC Passed |
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| SUBJECTS AND PAPERS |
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| 1 | Growth and Development of child |
| 2 | Organisation and Management of Creche/Pre- School |
| 3 | Health & Nutrition |
| 4 | Community Education and Parents Involvement |
| 5 | Computer Education (Windows & MS Office) |
| Paper - I Growth and Development of child |
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| 1 | Importance of the study of developmental psychology with special reference to early childhood. |
| 2 | Meaning of growth and Development |
| 3 | Principles of child development, stages of child development from conception to Pre-primary age-their characteristics, rate of development, developmental norms at each stage, needs of children at each stage with special reference to early childhood. |
| 4 | Major aspects of child development |
| 5 | Physical Development : Development of different organs of the body, norms of physical development |
| 6 | Motor development :- Its meaning and significance, role of maturation in the development of motor skills, gross and finer muscular developmental sequence of development of major motor skills; factor influencing physical and motor development. |
| 7 | Social development :- Pattern of social development, social behaviour in early childhood, forms of social , unsocial and antisocial behaviour, factor affecting social development ; development of social maturity.
(1) Emotional development : Characteristics of childhood emotions, important emotions of Childhood-fear, anger, jealously, pattern of emotional development development of emotion Maturity.
(2) Cognitive and language development : Trends in cognitive development ; sense perception Concept formation, memory, thinking, reasoning, problem solving concept-formation, Characteristics of children’s concepts : Some common concepts of children Viz, concepts of Life casualty space time etc. Social concept: Importance of concept for intellectual development and adjustment; Significance of language development, development of language skills, vocabulary formation, Factors affecting language development.
(3) Aesthetic development : Pattern of aesthetic development appreciation of beauty in form, Colour, sound and rhythm ; of aesthetic expression – drawing, painting, constructive activities Music, dance and hand work. |
| 8 | Play : Its nature and significance, development and learning. Types of play-free play, guided Play, make believe play, constructive or creative play, group games factors influencing Childrens play. |
| 9 | Methods of child study : Observation, interview, experimentation questionnaires, check lists, Case studies inventories tests and records of various types viz, development, health accidental Records and progress reports. |
| 10 | Behaviour problem: enquiries,temper thumb sucking nail biting aggression, withdrawal,lying Stealing and disobedience ; their causes and symptoms ; ways of prevention and treatment. |
| 11 | Psychology of exceptional children i.e., of the gifted, the physically handicapped and the mentally retarded, ways of helping exceptional children. |
| Paper - II Organisation and Management of Creche/Pre-School |
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| 1 | Significance of child care and early childhood education |
| 2 | Types of Pre-schools and crèches and their characteristics |
| 3 | Aims and objectives of crèches and Pre-school |
| 4 | Essential components of establishing a centre building
a) Planning Budget; b) Resources of finance; c) Mobilisation of human and material resouces |
| 5 | Physical set-up of a creche
1. Location 2. Building 3.Environment 4. Staff |
| 6 | Planning and implementation of the programmes |
| 7 | Planning a daily programme in crèche/Pre-schools |
| 8 | Planning and importance of the activities |
| 9 | Methods of Pre-School education
a) Progressive (Play-way) b) Montessori (sensory-training) |
| 10 | Principles of pre-school, curriculum content, construction |
| 11 | Maintenance of class and office records |
| 12 | Principles of the supervision, aspects of supervision etc |
| 13 | Duties and qualification of head and staff(teaching) and their contribution for the development of the child. |
| 14 | Duties of other workers in crèche/pre-school |
| 15 | Importance and need of training of other workers in Creche and Pre-school. |
| Paper - III Health and Nutrition |
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| 1 | Concept of nutrition and health |
| 2 | Importance of nutrition and health in Indian context in early childhood. |
| 3 | Nutritional needs (quality, quantity, and frequency) of following groups of children
0-3 months; 3-6 months; 6-12 months; 1-3 years; 3-6 years |
| 4 | Nutritional deficiency diseases |
| 5 | Meal planning : Elements of nutrition-Nutritional value of Indian food. Different types of food for children, Importance of breast feeding, Proper way of breast feeding care and cleanliness of the mother, weaning and its importance, age and ways of weaning. |
| 6 | Preparation of food : Principles and practices to be observed in the preparation of food, food preservation or enhancement of its nutitional value. Methods of preparing frest/bottled milk-powdered milk-fruit-juice, vegetable soup, fruit salad kheer porridge sabudana, smashed fruit and vegetables-boiling eggs and water for drinking-proper method of breast feeding. |
| 7 | Storage of food : Need and methods for safe and effective storage of prepared food, raw vegetables food. |
| 8 | Nutritional intervention for the vulnerable group of children. |
| 9 | Hygienic food practice. |
| 10 | Common ailments of the children, cough and cold, constipation, diarrhea, earache,seasonal fever vomiting rashes common communicable diseases, mumps, diphtheria, chicken pox, cholera, jaundice, T.B, skin infection, worm infections. |
| 11 | Common communicable diseases |
| 12 | Immunization: Importance of immunization-types of immunization such as BCG, DPT, Polio, Schedule and frequency of immunization. |
| 13 | First-Aid including popular home remedies |
| 14 | Concept of healthy environment |
| 15 | Common environmental hazards and their prevention |
| Paper - IV Community Education and Parents involvement |
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| 1 | Agencies of Education-their classification |
| 2 | Home as an agency of education |
| 3 | Importance to make Indian family in the proper development of child |
| 4 | Measures to make Indian family an effective Agency of education |
| 5 | Need and importance of close relationship between home and school for the best development of the child |
| 6 | Need for educating the parents |
| 7 | Way of educating the parents |
| 8 | Content of educating the mothers and parents |
| 9 | Role of parents in the proper functioning of the Creche/Pre-school |
| 10 | P.T.A-Oraganization and functions |
| 11 | Community as an agency of Education |
| 12 | Role of community in the proper development of child |
| 13 | Measures to make community an effective agency of education |
| 14 | Need and importance of close relationship between community and school for the best development of the child |
| 15 | Need of educating the community |
| 16 | Ways and Principles of educating the Community |
| 17 | Role and importance of community for the proper functioning of the Creche/Pre-School. |
| 18 | Concept-Democratic values, National integration among children. |
| Paper - V Computer Education (Windows-MS Office ) |
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| WINDOWS INTRODUCTION |
| 1 | Operating System |
| DESK TOP ICONS |
| 1 | My Computer, Recycle Bin, Internet Explorer, Network Neighbourhoods, My Documents |
| WORKING WITH WINDOWS |
| 1 | How to create a Folder, Copying and cutting files, Renaming |
| START ICON |
| 1 | Programs, Favorites, Documents, Settings, Find, Run, Shutdown |
| APPLICATION ICONS |
| MS WORD |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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| 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. |
