THE USING OF INQUIRY BASED LEARNING

AND LEARNING BLENDS AT MAGDALENA

INTEGRATED NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
KRISTINA CARLA G. RENIVA
Ph.D – Curriculum and Instruction
Student
Learning Theories
PROCESS
 PLANNING STAGE
 IMPLEMENTATION
 MONITORING
 FEEDBACKING
PLANNING
TRADITIONAL APPROACH HAS ITS OWN BENEFITS BUT IT IS
NOT FREE FROM DEFICIENCIES SUCH AS THE FOLLOWING
 It is failing to meet the individual needs of all the students in the
class basically due to improper pupil teacher ratio
 It is not adapting itself to meet the challenge of teaching
physically challenges students
 Course are not regularly revised, books are not updated and
teachers are not interested in upgrading their knowledge and
professional skills, the result is that our students are not well
prepared to meet the demands of the modern market and
professions.
INQUIRY BASED LEARNING
 “Inquiry” is defined as a quest “for truth, information, or
knowledge…seeking information by questioning” (Exline,2004:
31 )
 The fundamental concept in inquiry - based learning regards to a
process of personal discovery by the learners.
 Inquiry is a multifaceted activity that guides learners to inquire or
generate meaningful questions that lead to the relevant answers.
 In inquiry learning learners are shown how knowledge is
generated and transmitted and how they can acquire the
knowledge and skills necessary to become life-long learners.
(Ismail, 2006)
Elements of Inquiry
 Learning as Question Driven - Inquiry-based learning seeks
to spark and build on students’ curiosity, so as to create
meaningful learning.
 Reliance on Evidence - The inquiry approach also requires
students to justify opinions and beliefs using relevant and
valid evidence.
Elements of Inquiry
 Double movement of reflection -With the necessary
evidence gathered regarding an issue, students proceed to
create a working theory, where they move from experiencing
a phenomenon, to creating a working hypothesis about that
experience, to experiencing the phenomenon again to test
the working hypothesis, and back to revise the hypothesis,
and so forth.
Elements of Inquiry
 Knowledge Construction -When students ask questions,
gather evidence and reflect on the different perspectives
presented, they are actively engaged in knowledge
construction, where they discover new ways of
understanding and new ways of seeing things.
SOCIAL STUDIES INQUIRY PROCESS
INQUIRY BASED CLASSROOMS
 In order to have a productive inquiry – based classroom the
learning environment in the class should be enriched with
learning materials that will enhance and stimulate. It should
also provide answers to the learners‟ inquiries.
BLENDED LEARNING
 Blended learning is an innovative concept that embraces the
advantages of both traditional teaching in the classroom and
ICT supported learning including both offline learning and
online learning.
 It has scope for collaborative learning; constructive learning
and computer assisted learning (CAI).
 Blended learning needs rigorous efforts, right attitude,
handsome budget and highly motivated teachers and students
for its successful implementation
 As it incorporates diverse modes so it is complex and
organizing it is a difficult task.
CHARACTERISTICS OF BLENDED
LEARNING
 Students have the option of two modes- students in blended
learning can select either the traditional mode of classroom
teaching where they can get personal interaction with
teacher and their classmates or they can choose ICT
supported teaching learning
 Teachers are well versed with both modes - it is an important
feature of the blended learning that teachers are very
dynamic, techno savvy and fully trained to work efficiently in
both the formats traditional classroom format and ICT
supported format
CHARACTERISTICS OF BLENDED
LEARNING
 Students get face to face interaction as well they interact in
virtual space -students get ample of time to interact with
other students pursuing same subject. They can interact with
them inside school and also in virtual space
 Students get full experience in using new technology- Today
all professions demand expertise in ICT so blended learning
help to make student’s ICT experience rich. Students
involved in blended learning gain capability to exploit
available technologies to the fullest of their benefit
CHARACTERISTICS OF BLENDED
LEARNING
 It has a human touch-due to physical prescience of teacher via
traditional approach students get that human touch which is
very necessary for balanced student’s emotional quotient and
very necessarily up to secondary level.
 Makes teaching learning process child centered- blended
learning is designed to provide maximum gain to students
and thus reach the goal of child centered education.
 Diverse role of teacher- teacher in blended learning is
playing different role, traditional role of a teacher in
classroom, she acts as motivator, as a resource person, as an
organiser, as a developer, when she develops content to be
provided through ICT, as a guide on the side.
ADVANTAGE OF BLENDED LEARNING
 As part of learning is done through ICT, online or offline
mode so teachers and students get more time in the
classroom for creative and cooperative exercise.
 Students gain advantage of online learning and CAI without
losing social interaction element and human touch of
traditional teaching’
IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING
PHASE
INQUIRY BASED LEARNING
INQUIRY BASED LEARNING
INQUIRY BASED LEARNING
BLENDED LEARNING
BLENDED LEARNING
FEEDBACKING ON INQUIRY BASED
LEARNING
TEACHERS
 “Mas iba po ang infact kpag nag tatnong na may ICT mam
mas nkukuha ang attention nila kumapra s nasa manila paper
or tarpapel.pag may dala pngalang tv ahh feeling nila may
kakaiba kang ipapakita s knila.base po sa npapansin ko mam”
 CARLA JEAN A. BURBOS
 Teacher I
 Araling Panlipunan
TEACHERS
 “SA akin mam mas epektibo ang paggamit Ng may evidience
based s ICT dahil madaling makuha Ang atensyon nila kaysa
SA sinasabi lng.at madaling gamitinYan SA pagtuturo no nid
na magsulat SA Manila paper.. social na mga Bata marunong
na gumamit din turpapel at power point isinisend nila SA
akin Yung PowerPoint presentation Ng groups Ng nila...dahil
marunong n din Sila mam..”
 LOLITA T. TOBIAS
 Teacher I
 Araling Panlipunan
TEACHERS
 “Mas effective at mas mabilis po kumuha ng attensyon at mas
excited mga bata.thanks po kasi po nag iisip sila”
 ZENAIDA B. ESTRABO
Teacher I
Araling Panlipunan
FEEDBACK ON BLENDED LEARNING
TEACHER
 “Mam mas nagiging independent cla eh lalo pag hands on may
learning by discovery cla. Pero Disadvantage pag hndi mo cla
ngguide sumosobra naman cla s paggmit ng technology. S ICT
instruction po un. Mas natututo cla kpag gnmitan ko ng ibang
strategy kung saan mas naiintindihan nla ung lesson. Medyo
mahirap po module nla bnababawan ko para maabot ng utak nla”
 “Mam lecture method prang hndi nagging interesting s knila..
Dapat may gamit ng ICT at hhingan cla feedback. Dun cla
maraming alam. Minsan mas may alam pa sayo. Kasi nga too much
ang exposure nla s internet.,.”
 DANICA S. BOTIN
 Teacher I
 TLE – ICT
STUDENTS FEEDBACK
SAN KAYO MAS NATUTUTO? DUN SA BAGONG WAY O SA
DATING WAY NG PAGTUTURO NA LECTURE?
 “Teaching lecture po maam, kasi po bukod sa pagtuturo ng
personal may naibabahagi pa sila na maa natututunan pa
namin base sa kanilang mga karanasan.”
 Grade 10 Antipolo
 Student
SAN KAYO MAS NATUTUTO? DUN SA BAGONG WAY O SA
DATING WAY NG PAGTUTURO NA LECTURE?
 “Teaching lecture po, dahil bilang estudyante mas
naiintindihan ko po ang mga lessons kung direktang itinuturo
ito ng mga teachers “.
 Grade 10 Antipolo
 Student
SAN KAYO MAS NATUTUTO? DUN SA BAGONG WAY O SA
DATING WAY NG PAGTUTURO NA LECTURE?
 “Teaching Lecture po dahil mas mabibigyan ng paliwanag
yung mga lesson na tinatacle at nakakapagshare ng idea or
experience na mas lalong maintindihan”
 Grade 10 Antipolo
 Student
SAN KAYO MAS NATUTUTO? DUN SA BAGONG WAY O SA
DATING WAY NG PAGTUTURO NA LECTURE?
 “Teaching Lecture po dahil dun po mas napapaliwanag po ng
maayos at madaling maintidihan po kung personal na
ipinapaliwanag.”
 Grade 10 Narra
 Student
SAN KAYO MAS NATUTUTO? DUN SA BAGONG WAY O SA
DATING WAY NG PAGTUTURO NA LECTURE?
 “Teaching lecture po kase mas naiintindihan po namin yung
isang topic, dahil mas naiipaliwanag po samin ng ayos at
napapalawak pa po yung isang topic at kung may mali nmn po
kami ay naiitama po
 Grade 10 Narra
 Student
SAN KAYO MAS NATUTUTO? DUN SA BAGONG WAY O SA
DATING WAY NG PAGTUTURO NA LECTURE?
 “Teaching lecture po Kasi alam mo pong sa kanila nang
gagaling at lalong matututo ka At maiintindihan mo Ang lahat
 Grade 10 Narra
 Student
CONCLUSION
 There was a conflicting responses from teachers group and
student group. The teachers were in favor of the innovative
learning approaches, while the students were favored the old
traditional lecture method.
 The conflicting responses can be attributed to:
 Teachers’ training
 Geographic location of the school
 Socio – economic status of students
References
 Lalima, K. & Dangwal, L. 2017. Blended Learning: An
Innovative Approach. DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2017.050116
 Ismail, N. & Alais, S. 2006. Inquiry Based Learning: A New
Approach to Classroom Learning.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259632827
 Singapore Social Studies Syllabus