1.-Nature-of-Inquiry_Lesson1.pptx.......

Philosophy

1. PRACTICAL RESEARCH 1

2. INQUIRE “ The detectives need more time to inquire about the case.”

3. OBJECTIVES: Discuss and explain enquiry. Realize the importance of Benefits of Inquiry – Based Learning. Conduct a simple investigation using the Inquiry Based Learning

4. Learning is your way of obtaining knowledge about your surroundings. This take place in many ways, and one of these is INQUIRY .

5. INQUIRY (1) Is a learning process that motivates you to obtain knowledge or information about people, things, places, or events.

6. It is a problem solving technique. It elevates your thinking power. “Inquiry as problem solving technique, it includes cooperative learning because any knowledge from members of the society can help to make the solution.” (2)

7. Governing Principles or Foundation of Inquiry (3-5) 1. John Dewey’s theory of connected experiences for exploratory and reflective thinking.

8. 2 . Lev Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) that stresses the essence of provocation and scaffolding in learning. 3. Jerome Bruner’s theory on learners’ varied world perceptions for their own interpretative thinking of people and things around them.

9. Benefits of Inquiry – Based Learning (6-8) 1. Elevates interpretative thinking through graphic skills 2. Improves student learning abilities 3. Widens learners vocabulary 4. Facilitates problem-solving acts 5. Increases social awareness and cultural knowledge

10. 6. Encourages cooperative learning 7. Provides mastery of procedural knowledge 8. Encourages higher- order thinking strategies 9. Hastens conceptual understanding

11. “ Educators, businessmen, and other professionals consider all these benefits of Inquiry- based Learning in various fields of knowledge to be crucial to the success of anyone in the 21 st Century. ”