lesson 1
INDUCTIVE TEACHING STRATEGY
Meaning:
Inductive Teaching Strategy:
A teaching strategy in which the
teacher presents a set(s) of data or situations and encourages students to
infer a conclusion, generalization, definition, hypothesis or pattern of
relationships.
It allows students to observe the
specifics and then to conclude, infer, classify, compare and generalize about
the entire group of particulars.
Types
1. Guided
inductive strategy: When the teacher provides the specifics of the lesson from
which the students make generalizations and conclusions.
2. Unguided
inductive strategy: When students are encouraged to provide the cases/specifics
for analysis from which to draw conclusions.
Features of Guided Inductive Strategy:
The learners progress from data
examination, observation and generalization.
The teacher controls the elements –
the specifics, situations or objects – and structures a meaningful pattern on
the observations being made in the classroom, which in fact is a 'learning
laboratory’.
The teacher encourages as many
students as possible to respond to the specifics provided.
Unguided Inductive Strategy
The teacher controls only the
materials and simply poses questions such as, “Tell me everything that you have
to share with your friends upon your observation of the things?” etc.
Students’ bringing the data pre-supposes
their previous analysis of the matter. This helps a lot of creativity.
As it is more student-centered,
there can be unlimited number of generalizations, out of which the teacher
leads them to the relevant hypothesis through probing questions.
Phases in the Inductive Strategy
Phase I: The open ended phase
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Shows the students an example/ non-example of a
concept
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Students observe and describe
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Give another example and so on until they
compare the examples and non-examples.
Phase II: The convergent Phase
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Prompt students to identify patterns in the
examples
Phase III: Closure
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Arrive at a definition or hypothesis or formula
by explicitly stating the patterns in the examples.
Phase IV: The Application Phase
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Application of the definition…
Advantages of Inductive Teaching Strategy
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It involves observation, inference, classification
and comparison.
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It can be used at all levels of study at varying
degrees.
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It incorporates all the questioning techniques
including prompting, probing and content review.
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It ensures greater interaction among the
learners and the teacher
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It discourages wild guessing as each inference
should be validated by proper evidences.
Disadvantages of Inductive Strategy
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The content coverage can be the smallest amount.
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Inductive discovery needs verification, in
different cases, through deduction.
