The document outlines the Inquiry Training Model, which focuses on engaging children in the inquiry process of encountering problems, gathering data, experimenting, formulating explanations, and analyzing results. It emphasizes that knowledge is tentative, there are no definite answers, and that inquiry occurs when confronted with problems or puzzles. The model also describes the social system of equal participation between teachers and students and encouragement of student inquiry and interaction.
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Inquiry Training Model
The document outlines the Inquiry Training Model, which focuses on engaging children in the inquiry process of encountering problems, gathering data, experimenting, formulating explanations, and analyzing results. It emphasizes that knowledge is tentative, there are no definite answers, and that inquiry occurs when confronted with problems or puzzles. The model also describes the social system of equal participation between teachers and students and encouragement of student inquiry and interaction.
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Inquiry Training Model
Unit II Inquiry Training Model
J. Richard Suchman Inquiry Training Model
• All knowledge is tentative
• There is no one answer • All of us inquire when confronted with a problem or puzzles Inductive inquiry
Discovery learning
Problem solving Inquiry Training Model Focus
✤Children are very curious in nature
✤Engage in inquiry process ✤Explore and analyse themselves Inquiry Training Model Syntax ✤Encounter with the problem ✤Data gathering process ✤Experimentation ✤Formulating explanation ✤Analysis of the inquiry process Inquiry Training Model principle of reaction ✤Asking questions to rephrase invalid questions ✤Pointing out invalid statement ✤Neither approving nor rejecting student theories ✤Encourage interaction among students Inquiry Training Model Social system
✤Equal participation of teacher and
student ✤Encourage student for the inquiry ✤Learn the principle of inquiry ✤Teacher-pupil and pupil-pupil interaction Inquiry Training Model Support system ✤A set of confronting materials ✤Te c h n i c a l u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f t h e intellectual processes and strategies of inquiry ✤The resource materials bearing on the problem