BPSC Special Teacher case studies
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The BPSC Special Teacher recruitment exam is the selection route through which the Bihar Public Service Commission screens candidates for special teacher posts in Bihar's school system. It is aimed at candidates who already hold a recognised teaching qualification and now need to clear a competitive, commission-conducted selection process rather than a single eligibility test. The BPSC Special Teacher case studies are 5 cases and about 3,719 words.
1Rahim cannot copy fast enough: accommodating low vision in a class of 62
At a government middle school in Muzaffarpur district, Class 6 has 62 students in a room with three rows of benches and one chalkboard. Rahim, aged 11, has low vision (best corrected acuity about 6/60 in the better eye) and sits in the fourth row.
752 words, about 4 min2The gap of one: ratio misconceptions in Class 7
You teach mathematics to 48 Class 7 students in a Patna government school. A five-item diagnostic on ratio and proportion gives four distinct results.
756 words, about 4 min3Amit, Sneha and one written report
It is the seventh period, after lunch, in a Class 8 room with 55 students. In the first 12 minutes of a 35-minute Social Science period you have already spoken to Amit three times: he called out an answer, made a joke when another student answered wrongly, and tapped his pen through the explanation.
747 words, about 4 min4Correcting every miscue in a Bhojpuri-speaking Hindi class
You teach Hindi to 45 Class 7 students in a rural school in Champaran. Thirty-eight speak Bhojpuri at home, six speak Urdu at home and read the Urdu script, and one student recently arrived from Jharkhand and speaks Magahi.
694 words, about 3 min5Laws of reflection with one mirror, one spoon and a weak torch
You teach the Class 8 science chapter on light to 50 students in a school with no laboratory. Available materials: one plane mirror, one steel spoon, a torch with weak batteries, a dusty room with shuttered windows, and a chalkboard.
770 words, about 4 min