Inductive

Guided Inquiry
Beliber, Jake
Fajardo, John Lloyd
Salamanque, Maria Christina
Nava, Marjorie
 What is Inductive Guided
Inquiry?

How to use Guided

Inductive Inquiry as a
Teaching Strategy

Table of Characteristics of Guided

Contents
Inductive Inquiry Model

The Role of Questioning

Within Guided Inductive
Inquiry
 What is Inductive
Induction
- is a thought
Guided Inquiry?
process wherein the
individual observes
selected events, processes,
or objects and then
constructs a particular
pattern of concepts or
relationships based on
these limited experiences.
 Inductive Inquiry What is Inductive
- is a teaching Guided Inquiry?
method in which the
teachers ask the
students to infer a
conclusion,
generalization, or
pattern of relationships
from a set of data or
facts.
Inductive Inquiry is
actually applicable for
all levels of instruction
(from grade school to
university graduate
schools). At any level, the
processes of observing,
making inferences,
classifying, formulating
hypotheses, and predicting
are all sharpened by the
students` experiences.
 TWO APPROACHES OF
INDUCTIVE INQUIRY

GUIDED UNGUIDED
If you provide the If you allow the
specifics- that is, the students to discover
data or facts- but the specifics
want the students to themselves before they
make generalizations make generalizations
Guided Inductive Inquiry:
Show different
How to Use Guided
pictures of the same Inquiry as a
scene to the class
Ask the children to Teaching Strategy?
tell what they see in
the pictures
Ask them to describe
patterns they observe
Ask questions that
require the students
to do some
generalizing
themselves
 You need to distinguish clearly between
statements based on observations and those
based on inferences. Begin the lesson by
explaining and demonstrating th difference
between observations and inferences.

The process of inductive reasoning is

developed gradually. As the lesson
progresses, prepare a simple chart or list
on the blackboard of the students`
observations and inferences.
 Time Requirements
spend at least twice as much class time on
each lesson.
This time is spent on in-depth analysis of the
content by the students.
Inquiry methods demand greater interaction
between the learner and the learning
materials, as well as greater interaction
between the teacher and the students.
 Characteristics of Guided
Inductive Inquiry
1. The learners progress from specific observations to inferences or
generalizations.
2. The objective is to learn the process of examining events or objects and
then arriving at an appropriate generalization from the observations.
3. The teacher controls the specifics of the lesson and thus acts as the
class leader.
4. Each student acts to the specifics and attempts to structure a
meaningful pattern based on his or her observations and those of others
in the class.
5. The classroom is to be considered a learning laboratory
6. Usually, a fixed number of generalizations will be elicited from the
learners.
7. The teacher encourages each student to communicate his or her
generalizations to the class so that others may benefit from them.
 A General Model of Inquiry
Identifying a Problem Being aware of something

Preparing a statement
of research objectives Proposing testable hypotheses

Gathering evidenc
Collecting data
Conducting an expperiment
Surveying a sample
Make a meaningful statement supported by data
Interpreting data
Testing hypotheses

Developing tentative Establishing relationships or patterns

conclusion Specifying generalizations

Obtaining new data

Replication
Revising original conclusions
 The Role of Questioning Within
Guided Inuctive Inquiry
What kinds of
Questions Stems: Dynamic Sujects
questions should a
teacher ask? Questions Stems: Static Subjects
What is happening?
What kind of objects is it?
What do you think will happen
The following list show now?
What is it made of?
some questions that
the teacher can pose Where have you seen something
in the class like this happen? Where is it found?

When have you seen something

like this? What is its purpose?

How can you make this happen? How did it get its name?

How can you do this more How is it different form other

easily? things?