Inquiry Training Model

Unit II

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

Inquiry Training Model

J. Richard Suchman
Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU
Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU
Inductive inquiry

Discovery learning

Problem solving

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

 Inquiry Training Model

• All knowledge is tentative

• There is no one answer
• All of us inquire when confronted with a
problem or puzzles

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU
Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU
Inquiry Training Model
Focus

✤Children are very curious in nature

✤Engage in inquiry process
✤Explore and analyse themselves

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

Inquiry Training Model
Syntax
✤Encounter with the problem
✤Data gathering process
✤Experimentation
✤Formulating explanation
✤Analysis of the inquiry process
Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU
 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
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Social system

✤Equal participation of teacher and

student
✤Encourage student for the inquiry
✤Learn the principle of inquiry
✤Teacher-pupil and pupil-pupil interaction
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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
Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU