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A teacher is trying to teach the concept of good & bad conductors of electricity to class VI students. He begins by providing the definition of two terms. He then demonstrates how placing a good conductor like a safety pin between two ends of an open circuit consisting of a battery and a bulb completes it and bulb begins to glow. On the other hand, placing a poor conductor like a plastic scale does not complete the circuit and the bulb does not glow. He then invites the students turn-wise to his desk & asks them to themselves verify this. How would you evaluate the approach from an inquiry - oriented perspective?

A teacher is trying to teach the concept of good & bad conductors of electricity to class VI students. He begins by providing the definition of two terms. He then demonstrates how placing a good conductor like a safety pin between two ends of an open circuit consisting of a battery and a bulb completes it and bulb begins to glow. On the other hand, placing a poor conductor like a plastic scale does not complete the circuit and the bulb does not glow. He then invites the students turn-wise to his desk & asks them to themselves verify this. How would you evaluate the approach from an inquiry - oriented perspective? Correct Answer It is not an effective approach for encouraging inquiry.

In an Inquiry approach, the students are given a problem or a discrepant event. The students will ask the teacher questions to collect the data and they through interaction find out a satisfactory solution to a given problem or explanation of the given discrepant event. In this approach, the teaching-learning process is controlled by the students.

Key PointsLearning through inquiry involves the teacher posing the problem(s) and giving assistance, but making it possible for pupils to achieve discoveries collectively for themselves.

Inquiry training has the following phases.

  • Encounter the problem.
  • Data Gathering- verification.
  • Data gathering—Experimentation.
  • Hypothesizing.
  • Testing of hypothesis Formulation of an explanation.
  • Analysis of the inquiry process.

Important PointsIn the Inquiry Training model, the teacher does not demonstrate the experiment to all the students. Students own their process from the beginning of the experiment to conclude. In the above-mentioned example, the students are not actively involved to find out rules, and principles and hence develop their minds by using insight and intuition to go beyond the data to find relationships and organize structures. Hence, It is not an effective approach for encouraging inquiry.

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S1: If you want to do well in your examinations you need to be able to think for yourself which means not just following the guide-books but write what you think yourself.
P: That will not help much.
Q: Few if any students do this.
R: By discussing things with other students, with your teachers, and with any intelligent people you meet you will find you can pick up a lot of new ideas but it is not good first accepting these ideas, swallowing them undigested and then repeating them in the examination.
S: At first you will find it difficult but if you go on trying you will find clear independent thought becomes easier.
S6: If however you turn these ideas over in our mind accepting those which you agree with and fitting them into your stock of knowledge and rejecting the others you may get somewhere.

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