RPSC 1st Grade Teacher (Paper I) flashcards

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Object permanence

Piaget's sensorimotor achievement (roughly 8–24 months) in which the child knows an object still exists when hidden from view. Its absence marks the early sensorimotor stage.

Zone of Proximal Development

Vygotsky's term for the gap between what a learner can do alone and what the learner can do with guidance from a more capable person. It defines the target for scaffolding.

Conservation (Piaget)

Understanding that quantity, mass, volume or number stays the same despite changes in appearance or arrangement. It typically appears in the concrete operational stage, around age seven.

Kohlberg Stage 6

The postconventional stage of universal ethical principles, where right action follows self-chosen moral principles rather than law. Kohlberg found very few people reaching it.

Bloom's revised taxonomy

A six-level cognitive hierarchy: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyse, Evaluate, Create. The first three are lower-order and the last three higher-order thinking objectives.

Formative assessment

Assessment carried out during teaching to diagnose learning gaps and give feedback. It is low-stakes, continuous and used to adjust instruction rather than to certify achievement.

Microteaching

A scaled-down training cycle of plan, teach a short lesson, receive feedback, re-plan and re-teach, focused on one teaching skill at a time in a small group.

Constructivism

A learning theory holding that learners actively build knowledge by connecting new experience to prior knowledge. The teacher facilitates exploration and discussion rather than transmitting facts.

Differentiated instruction

Adapting content, process and product to learner readiness, interest and profile. Teachers use flexible grouping, tiered tasks and varied representations so all students can progress.

हिंदी स्वर

हिंदी वर्णमाला में स्वर 11 होते हैं - अ, आ, इ, ई, उ, ऊ, ऋ, ए, ऐ, ओ, औ। ये स्वतंत्र रूप से बोले जाते हैं और व्यंजनों के उच्चारण को पूर्ण करते हैं।

अव्ययीभाव समास

वह समास जिसमें पहला पद अव्यय (उप, प्रति, यथा, आदि) होता है और समस्त पद अव्यय की तरह प्रयुक्त होता है, जैसे यथाशक्ति, प्रतिदिन, आजीवन।

अनुप्रास अलंकार

जिस अलंकार में एक ही वर्ण की आवृत्ति एक से अधिक बार होती है, जैसे चारु चंद्र की चंचल किरणें। यह शब्द-सौंदर्य बढ़ाता है।

Communicative Language Teaching

An English teaching approach in which the goal is real communication. Lessons use meaningful tasks, pair and group interaction, and fluency is prioritised over error-free grammar drills.

Phonics instruction

Teaching reading by mapping letters and letter groups to their sounds, then blending them to decode words. It supports early word recognition and spelling systematically.

HCF-LCM relation

For two positive integers a and b, HCF(a,b) × LCM(a,b) = a × b. This lets you find one value when the other three are known.

Divisibility rule for 11

A number is divisible by 11 when the difference between the sums of digits in alternating positions is 0 or a multiple of 11, e.g., 2728 gives 2+2=4 and 7+8=15.

Compound interest formula

Amount A = P(1 + R/100)^n, where P is principal, R the annual rate and n the number of years. Compound interest equals A minus P.

Van Hiele levels

Five levels of geometric reasoning: visualisation, analysis, informal deduction, formal deduction and rigour. Instruction should match the learner's current level to promote movement upward.

Mathematisation

NCF 2005's core aim for mathematics: developing the child's ability to think, reason and model situations mathematically, rather than only performing calculations correctly by rote.

Photosynthesis equation

6CO₂ + 6H₂O + light energy → C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂, occurring in chloroplasts with chlorophyll. Light energy is converted to chemical energy stored in glucose.

Ten percent law

Lindeman's rule that only about 10% of energy at one trophic level passes to the next. Most energy is lost as heat, limiting food chains to four or five links.

Keoladeo Ghana National Park

A Ramsar wetland at Bharatpur, Rajasthan, famous as a wintering ground for migratory birds including the Siberian crane. It was formerly a royal hunting reserve.

Sublimation

The direct change of a solid into vapour without passing through the liquid state, as with camphor or dry ice. The reverse process is deposition.

Kalibangan

An Indus Valley site on the Ghaggar in Hanumangarh district, Rajasthan. It is noted for evidence of a ploughed field and fire altars.

Haldighati battle

Fought in 1576 between Maharana Pratap of Mewar and the Mughal army led by Man Singh. It ended inconclusively, and Pratap continued guerrilla resistance.

Fundamental Rights

Rights guaranteed in Part III of the Indian Constitution, including equality, freedom, protection against exploitation, religion and constitutional remedies. They are enforceable in courts.

Indian Standard Time

Time based on the 82°30′E meridian, which is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. India follows one time zone despite its east-west spread.

Greater Rajasthan

The stage of Rajasthan's unification in 1949 when major princely states including Jaipur, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer and Bikaner joined. Jaipur became the capital.

Luni River

Rajasthan's principal inland river, rising in the Aravalli near Ajmer and flowing south-west to the Rann of Kutch. Its water turns saline downstream.

NEP 2020 structure

The National Education Policy 2020 replaces 10+2 with a 5+3+3+4 structure covering ages 3 to 18, including three years of preschool and four years of secondary schooling.

NIPUN Bharat

A national mission launched in 2021 to ensure foundational literacy and numeracy for all children by Grade 3, aligned with NEP 2020's foundational stage goals.