The Inquiry Training Model is an educational approach developed by Richard Suchman that uses a scientific process of inquiry to teach students. It assumes that students are naturally motivated to inquire and can be taught scientific inquiry procedures. The model aims to teach students scientific process skills, strategies for creative inquiry, a spirit of creativity, independence in learning, and tolerance of ambiguity. It involves five phases - presenting a discrepant event, data gathering through verification, data gathering through experimentation, formulating an explanation, and analyzing the inquiry process. Teachers create lesson plans that implement these five phases of the inquiry process.

1. Inquiry Training ModelInquiry Training Model
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PrincipalPrincipal
S.G.S.B.Ed. College,IndoreS.G.S.B.Ed. College,Indore

2. Developed byDeveloped by
Richard SuchmanRichard Suchman

3. AssumptionsAssumptions
• An individual has a natural motivation to inquire.
• Students can be taught scientific procedures of
inquiry.
• Convey the attitude that all knowledge is
tentative.
• There is no permanent to solve the problem.
• Student should consider the point of view of
other persons.
• Cooperative inquiry enriches thinking.
• Students are always eager to solve problems.
• Scientific inquiry process require independent
learning and active participation.
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4. Instructional EffectInstructional Effect
Scientific Process skills
Strategies for creative inquiries
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5. Nurturant effectsNurturant effects
Spirit of creativity
Independence or autonomy in learning
Tolerance of ambiguity
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6. SyntaxSyntax
Phase I: Presentation of discrepant event
Phase II: Data gathering - Verification
Phase III: Data gathering –
Experimentation
Phase IV: Formulation of explanation
Phase V: Analysis of inquiry process
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7. Lesson Plan FormatLesson Plan Format
Teacher name: Institution name:
Subject: Topic:
Date: Class:
• Instructional Objectives
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8. Lesson Plan FormatLesson Plan Format
• Phase I: Presentation of discrepant event
–Description of event
–Statement of problem/discrepancy
–Medium of presenting the event
• Phase II: Data Gathering – Verification
–Questions related to object
–Questions related to event
–Questions related to condition
–Questions related to qualities and properties
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9. Lesson Plan FormatLesson Plan Format
• Phase III: Data Gathering – Experimentation
– Questions related to object
– Questions related to event
– Questions related to condition
– Questions related to properties
• Phase IV: Formulation of explanation
– Principle of linear causation
– Principle of properties
– Principle of analogies
– Principle of generalization
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10. Lesson Plan FormatLesson Plan Format
Phase V: Analysis of Inquiry Process
◦ Questions related to recapitulation of various
phases
◦ Questions related to phase II, asked by the
students
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11. WorksheetWorksheet
Name of the student: Class:
Teacher name: Name of the institute:
Subject: Topic:
Data Gathering – Verification Data Gathering – Experimentation
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12. Explanation………………………………
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Principle and reason…………………...
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