DISCOVERY LEARNING

Refers to obtaining
knowledge for oneself
Teacher plans and
arranges activities that
students search,
manipulate, explore and
investigate
It takes place in problem
solving situations where
the learner draws on his
own experience and prior
knowledge
 Is a method of instruction
through which students interact
with environment by exploring
and manipulating objects,
wrestling with questions,
performing experiments, to
spark the student’s prior
knowledge and to pursue further
questions
 Jerome Bruner argues that
“Practice in discovering for
oneself, teaches one to
acquire information, that
makes that information more
possible in problem solving
thus, it suggests that we
should “learn by doing”
When does discovery
learning occur?
PUZZLE
How is discovery learning
applied?
In the development of
instructional systems that
cause all students to think
and work more creatively
and to have a greater role
in their own learning
To encourage students to
develop problem solving
strategies
To increase the use and
effectiveness of discovery
learning by promoting
discovery learning courses,
modules, laboratories and
technology