Inquiry Training Model-Models of Teaching

Inquiry Training Model is ne of the most important model of teaching especially for Science Classrooms. The presentation gave the important topic of the Inquiry Training Model.

1. Inquiry Training Model Presentation by Nikhil D. S 2 , B.Ed. Physical Science MTTC TVPM

2. About the Model Developed by Richard Suchman in 1962 Promotes the art of Inquiry It teaches students a process of Inquiry Helps students improve their process skills and language of Inquiry Inquiry Training Model 2

3. Basic Assumptions Students Inquire naturally when they are puzzled. They become conscious of and learn to analyze their thinking strategies. New Strategies can be taught directly and added to their existing ones. Cooperative inquiry enriches thinking and helps students to learn about tentative and emerging nature of knowledge and appreciate alternate explanations. Curiosity is the basic instinct possessed by every Human. Inquiry Training Model 3

4. Specific Objectives To develop Scientific Process Skills To develop strategies for creative Inquiry To develop autonomy in learning. To develop among students the ability to tolerate ambiguity. to make the students understand the tentative nature of learning Inquiry Training Model 4

5. Focus To enhance the thinking ability of the student. To enable them to form conclusions based on facts. To enable them to have fluency in their thinking and speaking. More specialty to impart training of inquiry skills. Inquiry Training Model 5

6. Syntax Inquiry Training Model 6 Analysis of the Inquiry Procedure Formulating rules of explanations Encounter the Problem Data Gathering - Verification Data Gathering - Experimentation Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5

7. Teacher presents the discrepant event or a puzzling situation. Explains the inquiry procedures. Inquiry Training Model 7 Phase 1 Encounter the Problem Students are allowed to ask Yes/No Questions If not, ask the student to rephrase it as yes/no question Encourage students to ask more and more questions

8. Students inquire about the nature, identifies the objects, events and conditions related to the problem. The data should be recorded on the board or on data sheets by students Inquiry Training Model 8 Phase 2 Data gathering- Verification

9. Isolate relevant variables. Student identify a hypothesis from the data they gathered and asks questions to the teacher to test it. If the generated idea seems verified, They will move to the next phase, otherwise once again data gathering is carried. Inquiry Training Model 9 Phase 3 Data Gathering- Experimentation

10. Students formulate the explanation on the basis of D ata Gathering. Students formulates rules or explanations as solution to the discrepant event through simple causation, properties, analogy etc. Inquiry Training Model 10 Phase 4 Formulating Rules of explanation

11. Teacher guides students to analyze their thinking and questioning patterns. T hey also decide how the information was helpful or misleading in finding the solution. Discusses the factors influenced the inquiry effectively and adversely. Inquiry Training Model 11 Phase 5 Analysis of the Inquiry Procedure

12. In the preparatory phase, Teacher design or selects the puzzling situation and present it to students. Rest of the phases, students and teacher plays an important role. Students learns the principle of inquiry and teacher guide them, uses the resources, materials, perform experiments and conducts discussions. An open classroom environment is maintained. Inquiry Training Model 12 Social System

13. Ensures that the questions are phrased in such a way as to elicit Yes/No response. Asks pupils to be specific with their questions Directs students inquiry towards object, event condition and proper questions Provide support for generalizations. Ask the pupils to rephrase the invalid questions Encourage interaction among the pupils. Provide a free intellectual environment without evaluating student’s questions. Review the questions and responses to help the student to keep track of the process. Inquiry Training Model 13 Principle of reaction

14. “ All the specific conditions required for the smooth running of all phases of the model is called support system.” In Inquiry Training Model, Support System includes:- Discrepant Event or a Puzzling Situation Resources materials needed for the problem. Teaching Aids Teacher’s intellectual knowledge about Inquiry strategies. Inquiry Training Model 14 Support System

15. Develops Scientific Process Skills Develops Strategies for creative Inquiry Inquiry Training Model 15 Instructional Effects Nurturant Effects Spirit of creativity Autonomy in learning Tolerance of ambiguity Tentative nature of Knowledge

16. Develops Scientific Process skills Develops strategies for creative inquiry. Promotes autonomy in learning Develops the spirit of creativity in students. Develop among the students ability to tolerate ambiguity. makes students understand the tentative nature of knowledge Inquiry Training Model 16 Advantages Disadvantages Not applicable to primary contents or subject matter like facts, formulas etc. Cannot be applied to every puzzling situation. The situation only with a cause – effect relation can lead to generalization. All teachers are not compatible with the presentation of Discrepant event and lead the students to generalization. All students may not participate in the inquiry process.

17. Inquiry Training Model is used for giving training of inquiry to the students. Model promotes the processing skills that are helpful for inquiring. The process skills therefore include the observing, collecting and organizing data, identifying the variables in a situation, formulating hypothesis based on cause-effect relationship, experimenting or otherwise listing the hypothesis, inferring and drawing conclusions . The model takes the students through small versions of the procedures that scholars use in order to organize knowledge and generate principles that explain causation. Inquiry Training Model 17 Summary

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