CENTA TPO 2024 - Centre for Teacher Accreditation Teaching Professionals' Olympiad : Application Form, Exam Date, Eligibility, Syllabus and Exam Pattern

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CENTA TPO 2024 - Centre for Teacher Accreditation Teaching Professionals' Olympiad acronym CENTA TPO is a unique national competition to reward, recognize and celebrate teachers. This exam is held in 14 subject tracks and 4 languages (English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu).

 

CENTA TPO Exam 2024 Important Dates

Date of Notification and Start of Online Registration

  • To be notified.

Last Date of Submission of Application Form

  • To be notified.

Date of Entrance Exam

  • 28th April 2024

Date of Declaration of Result

  • To be notified.

CENTA TPO 2023 was held on-

  • October 2023 (finals)

 

CENTA TPO Exam 2024 Eligibility

Educational Qualification

  • Aspiring students must be working teachers.

 

CENTA TPO Exam 2024 Syllabus

CENTA TPO  will consist of questions from the following subjects Topics:

1. Subject Expertise

Topics covered will be themes of the chosen subject and grade levels, independent of the board and largely aligned with themes in the NCERT syllabus. With respect to grade levels, ‘primary’ broadly refers to Standard I to V, ‘middle school’ broadly refers to Standard VI to  VIII, and ‘high school’ broadly refers to Standard IX to XII.

The subject knowledge part of the section will include:

  • Knowledge of content and procedures
  • Conceptual understanding of the content
  • Application of the content
  • Knowledge of the purpose of content in the chosen subject

The pedagogical content knowledge part of the section will include:

  • Pedagogical methods and resources, especially subject- and topic-specific, especially understanding and application of these
  • Student assessment methods and the ability to derive insight into
  • student misconceptions on specific topics
  • Understanding of order or sequence of teaching various topics.

2. Classroom Practice and Professional Competencies

This section will test the following topics - knowledge as well as understanding and application, including situation response questions.

  • Learning theories and child growth stages
  • Diversity in learning patterns
  • Pedagogical methods
  • Classroom management techniques
  • Learning objectives and lesson planning
  • Student assessment: purpose, methods, and tools, deriving insight
  • The relevance of technology in education (basic level)
  • Professional competencies such as teamwork and leadership, interaction with parents and community, and understanding of
  • common policies and student safety.

3. Logical Ability and Communication (Common for all subject tracks)

• Logical Ability

  • Patterns
  • The logical and analytical reasoning
  • Syllogisms and Venn diagrams

• Communication

  • Comprehension
  • Expression clarity, structure, sensitivity
  • Language 

 

CENTA TPO Exam 2024 Pattern

  • CENTA TPO will consist of Two-hour having multiple choice questions with no negative marking from the given syllabus as given below:
  • Competencies tested are based on the Centre for Teacher Accreditation (CENTA) Standards.
  • Computer-based, but the interface is very simple and does not require knowledge of computers.
  • There will be three sections, no section-wise time limit, questions can be attempted in any order.

Sections

Subject Expertise (including teaching methods) (Specific to your subject track)  Classroom Practice and Professional Competencies (Common for all subject tracks) logical Ability and Communication (Common for all subject tracks) Total
Marks  40

40

20 100
No. of Questions 25

25

14 64

 

How to apply for CEMTA TPO 2024 Exam?

Aspiring Candidates can visit the official website i.e., https://centa.org/teachingprofessionalsolympiad and follow the instructions given there to apply for the same.

 

CENTA TPO Exam 2024 Fee

CEMTA TPO Fee will be as follows.

  • TPO (India) - Rs. 590/- (including GST)

 

CEMTA TPO 2024 Exam Dates

CEMTA TPO Exam is usually held in the month of December.

 

CEMTA TPO 2024 Exam Centres

CEMTO TPO will be held in the below given 28 cities across India

  • Ahmedabad
  • Bengaluru, Bhubaneshwar
  • Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore
  • Delhi
  • Gurugram, Guwahati
  • Hyderabad
  • Indore
  • Jaipur
  • Kochi, Kolkata
  • Lucknow
  • Madurai, Mumbai
  • Navi Mumbai
  • Noida
  • Patna, Pune
  • Margao (Goa)
  • Shimla
  • Trivandrum
  • Varanasi, Visakhapatnam
  • Udaipur
  • Vijayawada

 

CENTA TPO 2024 Contact Details

CENTA TPO 2022
Helpline No. +91-8880390557
Whatsapp: +91-7349662401
Email: [email protected]
Web: https://centa.org/teachingprofessionalsolympiad