CTET Solved Paper MCQ - CTET September 2015

A lot of children in India, especially girls do household work before coming to school and after going back from school and this is because of poverty. Their parents cannot afford their non-involvement in household works, and they have to study also. So, teachers should give such homeworks which are related with household works so that children can easily do their homeworks.

An effective classroom is such classroom which involves students and teachers in learning process and there is participation and co-ordination. Students are given opportunity to apply their own method with the guidance and help of teacher. And it produces good result.

Language acquired by the children, helps in development of children. Since. children hear and learn from the sounds of speech even while they are still in the womb. Language learning accelerates once infants are born. This language learning affects cognitive development. Some effects are more specific to language whereas other are more general. Development is a multiple process which includes various things, and language is one of them.

Jean Piaget in his Cognitive Development Theory, gave four stages of development. (i) Sensori-motor Stage This is the first stage during this stage, infants are busy discovering relationship between their bodies and the environment. (ii) Pre-operational Stage It ranges from about age 2 to 7 years. The child in this stage is pre (before) operations. This means child cannot use logic or transform, combine or separate ideas. (iii) Concrete-operational Stage This is 3rd stage and most children will enter this stage around age of 7 years and complete prior to eleven. In this child is capable of performing a variety of mental operations and thoughts using concrete concepts. (iv) Formal-operational Stage is 4th stage and begins at about age of 11 years. In this, as adolescents enter this stage, they (children) gain the ability to think in abstract manner.