APPROACHES BASED ON EPISTEMOLOGY

Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember, involve me and I will understand -Benjamin Franklin

PROBLEM METHOD OF INQUIRY

Is based on the philosophy of CONSTRUCTIVIST It assumes that students must be actively involved in their learning and concepts are not transmitted from the teacher to the students but rather knowledge is constructed by the students.

PROBLEM METHOD OF INQUIRY Is a dynamic teaching method that engages students in minds-on as well as hands-on activities. (student-centered method) Student-centered, the teacher considers What the students are going to do The student does most of the work, teachers participation is minimum.

WHY USE INQUIRY TEACHING?

Students are engaged in critical thinking, they are actively involved or engaged in their own learning Greater understanding of life-long process or understanding of the purpose of learning

No fear of being wrong (flexibility in point of view)

Self-confidence in learning ability

 GOAL

OF INQUIRY METHOD

To help students gain a better UNDERSTANDING of the world around them through active engagement in real-life experiences thus students are CONNECTED to the world in which they live.

INQUIRY PROCESS
Inquiry Phase (Inquiry or Problem) Data Gathering Phase 1 ( Hypothesis) Data Gathering Phase II (Data Collection and Analysis)

Implementation (Conclusion and Explanation

TYPES OF INQUIRY

DESCRIPTION

EXAMPLES

STRUCTURED

Teacher gives students problems to investigate during hands-on Laboratory activities as well as procedures procedures, and materials. Students must specified. determine the outcome

activities materials

with and

GUIDED

Students are given hard-boiled egg Teacher gives students the and paper supplies. Students are problem/question and materials. asked to create a device using the Students determine the process supplies that will protect the egg and outcome when it is dropped from a 5-storey building. Students take field trip to a vegetable garden. Students are given time to explore the garden. Students determine the problem, Students must identify a investigate the procedures and the researchable problem and conduct outcome an investigation based on their observation. For example: Which vegetable grow best in shades?

OPEN

SCIENTIFIC METHOD concentrates upon closure on facts, principles and law

INQUIRY METHOD is open-ended and on-going

METHODS OF AUTHORITATIVE EXPOSITION or the TRADITIONAL METHOD OF TEACHING

This is based on the learning theories of Plato and Aristotle. For them the aim of education is MENTAL DISCIPLINE, that is to fill the minds with ideas. The implication is, subjects are constant and essential to the realization of the pupils potentials.

METHODS OF AUTHORITATIVE EXPOSITION or the TRADITIONAL METHOD OF TEACHING

The subject matter content to teaching is subject centered. Lecture method is being used. Thus it follows HERBARTS FIVE STEPS instructional model It is derived from the Philosophies of Idealism and Scholasticism and part of Realism. The teacher leadership style is authoritarian-this means that the teacher makes all the major decisions in the classroom. The classroom is dominated by the teacher. The lesson involves a teaching-learning process in which the students are required to repeat and remember facts. Authoritarian methodology requires the teacher to be an expert in the subject matter content. This is a Teacher-Centered Method (It focus on what the teacher is going to do)

COMPARISON BETWEEN INQUIRY METHOD AND TRADITIONAL METHOD

Inquiry Principle Learning Constructivism Theory Student Participation Student Role Active Problem Solver Traditional Behaviorism Passive Direction Follower

Curriculum Goals
Teacher Role

Process Oriented
Guide/Facilitator

Product Oriented
Director/Transmitt er

WHAT METHOD PRODUCES THE HIGHEST LEARNING?

LECTURE READING AUDIOVISUAL DISCUSSION/GROUPING

5% 10% 20% 30%

PRACTICE BY DOING

90%

A hundred years from now, it will not matter

what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank.but the world maybe a better place because I MADE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIFE OF A CHILD . Forest Witchcraft

If a seed of a lettuce does not grow, we do not blame the lettuce, instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly

-Buddhist proverb

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TEACHERS KEEP ON SHARING YOUR LIGHT!!! MRS. GEMMA B. GARCIA