Advance Diploma in Nursery Teachers Training (ADNTT)

(A)	Duration :	24 Months	(D)	Courses :	13

(B)	Eligibility :	12th Pass	(E)	Credit :	80

(C) Contents and Scheme of Examination

Course Code

Title of the Course

Credit

Total Marks

Theory

Practic al Marks

Assign ments

Key Learning Outcomes

Max

Min

Ma x

Semester I

ADNTT1

Introduction to Early Childhood Education;

100

–

· Understand meaning, scope, need and importance of early childhood care and education (ECCE)

· Understand aims and objectives of early childhood care and education (ECCE)

· Understand significant approaches to ECCE

ADNTT2

Child Development

100

–

· Understand child care and development

· Understand basic concepts and principles in child development

· Knowledge of stages of development – physical, motor, language, cognitive,

social and emotional development of children

ADNTT3

Safety Practices in the Work Environment

100

· Familiarity with safety, fire safety, first aid, food safety, primary health and basic hygiene

Semester II

ADNTT4

Motivation and Learning

100

· Understanding of development of insight into the process of learning

· Ability to encourage motor activities, creative activities for development in various dimensions

· Familiarity with practical experiences in arts and craft for learning creativity and imagination

ADNTT5

Pedagogy in ECCE/ Nursery Education

100

· Understand methods and approaches of pedagogy in ECCE

· Ability to apply art activities such as drawing, painting, cutting and pasting tearing and paper folding, modeling, sand, water and blocks play with accessories etc.

· Understand 3 R (Reading, Writing and Arithmetic)

· Familiarity with concepts of shapes, size, classification, comparison, ordering, serration, number, counting and measurement

ADNTT6

Communication and Personality Development

100

–

· Basic communication skills

· Personality Grooming

ADNTT7

Activities/ Project

100

–

100

–

· Learn activity based projects

· Understand and learn collaboration, team work and research skills

Semester III

ADNTT8

Organization Behavior in ECCE/Nursery Setting

100

–

· Understand teacher quality competence and skill

· Understand classroom management

· Understand working with parents and community for creative home school interaction

ADNTT9

Health & Nutrition of Preschoolers

100

–

· Familiarity with immunization, childhood disease and prevention, impact of prolonged deprivation

· Learn forming good health habits among children

· Understand concept of a balanced diet, planning diet for children, major health problems and deficiency diseases

ADNTT10

Setting up ECCE/Nursery Centre

–

· Understand basics of management

· Understand maintenance of records

· Familiarity with HR practices

Semester IV

ADNTT11

Introduction to Entrepreneurship Development

100

–

· Understanding of entrepreneurship development concepts

ADNTT12

Internship in ECCE/Nursery Education Setting

–

· Orientation to internship

· Ability to participate in classroom processes and devise appropriate interventions.

· Knowledge of working with nursery teachers, recording the activities at ECCE centre, joyful participation

· Ability to prepare activities for physical, emotional, social and intellectual domains

ADNTT13

Practice of Lessons in Nursery/ Early Childhood Education

100

–

100

–

· Practice of teaching of 20 lessons in nursery / pre-primary school

Note : For a PASS – A Student would require to secure 40% for both Theory and Practical.

Grand Total	Pass
1300	520

Detailed Syllabus

Semester I

ADNTT 1: INTRODUCTION TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Meaning, Scope, Need, Importance, Aims and Objectives of Early Childhood Education/ Nursery Education. Salient features of early childhood education, Foundations of early childhood Education programme. Approaches to early childhood education with special reference to Froebel’s kindergarten approach; The Montessori approach, Integrated Child development services (ICDS), Aganwadi and Balwadi, Role of United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Pre School Education

ADNTT 2: CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Introduction to child care and development, basic concepts in child development, principles of child development; Factors influencing child development: Heredity and environment, maturation and learning, Intelligence, Emotional and Social factors, health and nutritional status of children, Stages of development with special reference to Early childhood (3-6 years of age): , physical, motor, language, cognitive, social and emotional development of children, Importance of play in child’s physical, motor, language, cognitive and socioemotional development

ADNTT 3: SAFETY PRACTICES IN THE WORK ENVIRONMENT

Safety Signs & Colour at Work: Safety Signs – Cause for accidents, Safe attitudes; Safety Signs

& Colour- Sign categories, Sign types.

First Aid & Artificial Respiration: First Aid – Introduction, first aid and Its aim, Recovery position, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), Wound, Shock, Convulsion, Extensive burns, Minor burns and scalds, Chemical burns, Electric shock, Fracture, first–aid box; Artificial Respiration – Respiration, Artificial respiration, Mouth to nose method of artificial respiration, Artificial respiration in case of cardiac arrest, Important points to note after giving artificial respiration to victims.

Safe Lifting and Carrying Techniques: Causes of injury, Types of injury and methods to prevent them, Points that make an objects/load difficult to carry, Preparation before lifting or shifting heavy loads, Correct body posture before beginning the lift in kinetic method of lifting, Manual lifting techniques using kinetic method, shifting of working tables, Shifting of electronic equipments/instruments, Basic steps of safe lifting and handling.

Fire and Fire Extinguishers: Fire, Fuel, Heat, Oxygen, Controlled and uncontrolled fire, Controlling and extinguishing fire, Fire extinguishers, Types of fire extinguisher – water-filled extinguishers, foam, extinguishers, dry powder extinguishers, carbon dioxide type extinguishers, halon extinguishers, General procedure to be adopted in the event of a fire.

Safe Working Measure: Electric shock, action and treatments; Hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control; Workstation layout and ergonomic guidelines.

Managing Health and Safety at Work: Introduction, General office safety, Types of office accidents, Office hazard control, Office environment, Hazards from electrical equipments, Office safety procedures, Emergency action plan.

Personal Hygiene: Introduction, how to maintain good hygiene, how to ensure food safety, Grooming, what are the consequences of not maintaining good hygiene?

Public and Home Safety: Introduction, Safety at home, Activities that have a potential for accidents, Things that are normally used at home and have a potential for accidents, Public safety, Prevention.

Common Food Borne Diseases and Infections: Introduction, The Farm – beginning of the food chain, Food processing-preventing food-borne illness and improving quality, Transport and storage–safeguarding food, Food safety and retailing, Food safety in the home, Food borne diseases.

Semester II

ADNTT 4: MOTIVATION AND LEARNING

Concept of Motivation; Factors affecting motivation for learning; Motivating young children for learning;

Learning- Concept of Learning; Psychology of learning, Process and outcomes of Learning, Types of learning; Factors affecting learning: Factors associated with learner’s learning experiences and factors associated with men and material. Teacher’s role in making young children learn, Learning Physical and Motor skills: significance, concept of motor skill learning and process. Language learning: Importance of language learning, stages of language learning, reinforcement and imitation, learning language skills.

Awareness to Learning difficulties among young children: Visit to school, recognition/ identification of learning difficulties, acceptance of variability among children, Utilizing referral services

Arts and crafts as sources of learning, creativity and imagination (Activities) Any Five

Exploring and appreciating different art forms as innovative tools (visual and performing arts) not only cutting and
Encourage children to explore and experience variations in color, shape, textures in nature and (like flowers, leaves) and others
Activities to create art forms like drawings using crayons, water colors providing enough flexibility to children and encouraging art as a medium of expression
Identify changes in drawings as children grow, encourage children to talk about their
Children’s orientation to play
Developing and involving children in activities for both indoor and outdoor play
Use of sand and water to involve children in play
Development and use of recyclable and reusable play material
Create a “props corner” like a basket of chunni, bags, spectacles, magazines etc
Music and movement and the appeal of rhythm
Facilitating children to experience different forms of music in the environment (like chirping of birds, train, sound of rain and so on)
Enhancing familiarity with local songs, rhymes, folk dance and cultural
Use of different material in the environment to create music and also encouraging children to create music
Use dance as a form to explore movement of body and a mode of communication
Develop a schedule to involve children in group activities for 20 minutes period, For a day,For a week

ADNTT 5: PEDAGOGY IN ECCE/NURSERY EDUCATION

Child centered approach: Activities for physical and motor development, social and emotional development, developing positive self-concept, Activities for cognitive development, Language development. Art Education for the preschool child plays materials and their use for the education of preschool child. Fostering development of cognitive skill.

Other activities: Festivals, Field trips, nature walk, indoor and outdoor games

PRACTICUM:

Observation of infants while providing them with visual and sensory stimulation (toys, pictures, different shapes and textures), Auditory (natural sounds like clap, conversations) and kinesthetic experiences (movements)
Development of aids, play material for sensory
Engage children in physical activities for developing and involving children to enhance loco motor skills like jumping, hopping, balancing, climbing, throwing, kicking,
Use of blocks, beads and strings, abacus and innovative methods to foster fine motor skills like grasping, and eye-hand
Case study of at least one child meeting with parents and seeking information related to Childs development and habits (Report preparation)

ADNTT 6: COMMUNICATION AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

Basic Grammar for Effective Communication : Parts of Speech – Revision (sentence, phrase, clause, parts of speech), Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, Article, Verb, Active

& Passive Voice, Infinitive, Gerund, Preposition, Conjunctions, Interjection; Analysis, Transformation, Synthesis and Direct & Indirect Speech – The phrase, the clause, the sentence, Analysis of compound and complex sentences, Transformation of sentences, Synthesis of sentences, Direct and indirect speech; Composition and Comprehension – Picture composition, How to write short a short story, Letter writing; Situational communication

Personality Development: Communication skills, Body language, Positive attitude, Etiquette and manners, SWOT analysis, Decision making, Goal setting, Positive thinking, Self-confidence, Motivation, Time management, Anger management, Stress management, Leadership, Team building,

ADNTT 7: ACTIVITY / PROJECT

The pupil teacher will undertake a Project related to her field of interest and would do some application oriented work in that area. It could be teaching content in a different way, making teaching aids, creating more activities to make a topic interesting etc.

Semester III

ADNTT 8: ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR IN ECCE/NURSERY SETTING

Teacher quality competence and skill : Fostering harmonious environment and effective home school relations for children’s to learn and be emotionally secured; observations of children and critical thinking on everyday activates; reflecting on classroom interaction and making children socially comfortable; sharing and discussing teaching learning experiences; devising new strategies and resolving interpersonal conflicts; picking up cues of deviant behavior in children and sensitivity to Childs need.

Classroom Management: Helping children making the transition from home to ECCE/Nursery settings with parental assistance; Managing large groups and mixed age groups; arrange classroom space for individual child as per requirement; Manage children participation in activities and bring discipline

Working with Parents and Community for creative home school interaction: To know the parents and family dynamics through home visits and meetings; Helping parents understand and ease to home to school transition; utilizing community resources and talents for ECCE/NURSERY/NURSERY setup; Using traditional drama, role play or modern media for information, education and communication (IEC)

ADNTT 9: HEALTH & NUTRITION OF PRESCHOOLERS

Concept of health and Nutrition, indicators of children’s health, common ailments and diseases in

children: Identification, prevention and remedial measures. Health and hygiene programs in a

preschool/ ECE center: Major components of health and hygiene program, cleanliness of the centre, safety measures.

ADNTT 10: SETTING UP ECCE/NURSERY CENTRE

Basics of management; Definition and meaning of management, Management process, Skills associating with managing setting up and running ECE centre: physical structure and facilities, equipment and material, The ECE staff, admission procedure, Records and Registers. Policy perspectives in ECE; National policy on ECE, program of action (POA) 1986, 1992 on ECE, Parents participation

Semester IV

ADNTT 11: INTRODUCTION TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Introduction to Entrepreneurship – Introduction and concept of Entrepreneurship, Theory of Entrepreneurship – Entrepreneurship in developing countries, Entrepreneurship stimulation, Entrepreneurship and economic growth, Entrepreneurship and Economic system, various theories of Entrepreneurship, Growth of Entrepreneurship – Role of Entrepreneurship, Growth of Entrepreneurs, Prospects for Entrepreneurship

Nature and Importance of Entrepreneurship – Entrepreneurship Qualities, Entrepreneurship Functions, Entrepreneurship Vs Entrepreneurs, Opportunity matrix, Entrepreneurship Decision, Role of Entrepreneurship, Growth of Entrepreneurship, Classification and types of Entrepreneurship – Business Entrepreneurs, Types of Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship and Motivation, Growth and Entrepreneurship, Nature and scope of management – Scope of Management, Meaning of Management, Characteristics of Management, Objectives of Management, Management as a profession, Organization and Management, Branches of Management, Importance of Management, managerial Skills, Planning – Concepts, processes and types – Importance of Planning, Characteristics of Planning, a Good Plan, Advantages of Planning.

Concepts of an Organization – Organization Concepts, organization theory, formal and informal organization, significance of organization, the organization process, analysis of organization, nature of organization, organization as an art, group dynamics, organization development.

Motivation – Introduction, Meaning, Kinds of Motivation, MC Gregor’s Theory X and Theory Y, Coordination, Need Hierarchy theory of Motivation, Motivational Techniques, Financial and Non- Financial Incentives. Leadership – Introduction, Characteristics of leadership, great man theory of leadership, role of leadership, leadership styles, techniques of leadership, functions of leadership, qualities of leadership, process of leadership, develop voluntary cooperation, Communication – Introduction, Features of communication, Need, Communication Process, communication Process models, Gestural or non verbal communication, Models of Grapevine, Communication Networks, Barriers of Communication, Effective communication, Improve written communication.

Accounting in an small enterprise – Need, How accounts maintained? Objectives of accounting, Ledger, Trial Balance, Final accounts Balance sheet etc.

Entrepreneurship development institutions – AISECT model of Entrepreneurship

How to setup and AISECT Centre Training for self employment

ADNTT 12: INTERNSHIP IN ECCE/ NURSERY EDUCATION SETTING

Orientation to Internship: Internship in Teaching: Teaching, Student Teaching Internship: Characteristics of Internship Programme, Supervision of Interns

Advantages of Internship Programme, Internship in Indian context, Organizing Internship in Teaching Programme, Pre-Internship Programme, Selection of Cooperative Schools, Pre- Internship Meeting, Conference of Cooperating Heads, Principals and Teachers, Pre-Internship Orientation/ Readiness Activities, Internship Activities, Post- Internship Activities, Guidelines for Teacher Trainees, Experiences for the student teacher

Project/ Assignment- Preparation of School Calendar, Assignment on Sociometry, Preparation of Cumulative Record Card, Project on Action Research, Case Study

ADNTT 13: PRACTICE OF LESSONS IN NURSERY / EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Practice Teaching – : 20 Lessons in Nursery/ Early Childhood Education

Counseling and Study Structure

S. No .	Course Code	Title of the Course	Credit	Total Hour s of Stud y	Counseling and Study Structure (hours)
S. No .	Course Code	Title of the Course	Credit	Total Hour s of Stud y	Face to Face Counse ling	Self study	Prac tical	Assi gnm ents
Semester I
1	ADNTT 1	Introduction to Early Childhood Education	7	210	28	119	–	63
2	ADNTT 2	Child Development	7	210	28	119	–	63
3	ADNTT 3	Safety Practices in the Work Environment	6	180	24	66	36	54
Semester II
4	ADNTT 4	Motivation and Learning	5	150	20	55	30	45
5	ADNTT 5	Pedagogy in ECCE/ Nursery Education	6	180	24	66	36	54
6	ADNTT 6	Communication & Personality Development	3	90	12	51	–	27
7	ADNTT 7	Activities/ Project	6	180	–	–	180	–
Semester III
8	ADNTT 8	Organization Behavior in ECCE/Nursery Setting	7	210	28	119	–	63
9	ADNTT 9	Health & Nutrition of Preschoolers	6	180	24	102	–	54
10	ADNTT 10	Setting up ECCE/Nursery Centre	7	210	28	119	–	63
Semester IV
11	ADNTT 11	Introduction to Entrepreneurship Development	3	90	12	51	–	27
12	ADNTT 12	Internship in ECCE/ Nursery Education Setting	7	210	28	119	–	63
13	ADNTT 13	Practice of Lessons in Nursery/ Early Childhood Education	10	300	–	–	300	–

Study Modules & Books Information

Sr. No

Course Code

Subject Name

Modules / Books to be used

Semester I

ADNTT 1

Introduction to Early Childhood Education

· Early Childhood Care and Education by

M. Sen Gupta, PHI Learning Private Limited (English)

ADNTT 2

Child Development

· Early Childhood Care and Education by

M. Sen Gupta, PHI Learning Private Limited (English)

ADNTT 3

Safety Practices in the Work Environment

· S 69 – Safety Practices, Primary Health

& Personal Hygiene (English), AISECT

Semester II

ADNTT 4

Motivation and Learning

· TT 02 – Motivation and Learning (English), AISECT

ADNTT 5

Pedagogy in ECCE / Nursery Education

· Early Childhood Care and Education by

M. Sen Gupta, PHI Learning Private Limited (English)

ADNTT 6

Communication and Personality Development

· S 68 – Effective Communication and Personality Development (English), AISECT

ADNTT 7

Activities/ Project

· Early Childhood Care and Education by

M. Sen Gupta, PHI Learning Private Limited (English)

Semester III

ADNTT 8

Organization Behavior in ECCE/Nursery Setting

· Early Childhood Care and Education by

M. Sen Gupta, PHI Learning Private Limited (English)

ADNTT 9

Health & Nutrition of Preschoolers

· Early Childhood Care and Education by

M. Sen Gupta, PHI Learning Private Limited (English)

ADNTT 10

Setting up ECCE/Nursery Centre

· Early Childhood Care and Education by

M. Sen Gupta, PHI Learning Private Limited (English)

Semester IV

ADNTT 11

Introduction to Entrepreneurship Development

· S56: Entrepreneurship Development (English and Hindi), AISECT

ADNTT 12

Internship in ECCE/ Nursery Education

· TT01 – Internship in ECCE/ Nursery Education, AISECT

ADNTT 13

Practice of Lessons in Nursery/ Early Childhood Education

· Early Childhood Care and Education by

M. Sen Gupta, PHI Learning Private Limited (English)