Guided Discovery

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Guided Discovery

• Melinda Boone Rachel Stone Heather Kuti

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What is Guided Discovery?

• An adaptation of discovery learning, in which the
  teacher provides some direction.

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What is discovery learning?

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• It is Bruners approach, in which students work
  on their own to discover basic principles.

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Bruners Work Lets Take a closer look!

• He emphasis the importance of understanding the
  structure of the subject being studied, the need
  for active learning as the basis for true
  understanding, and the value of inductive
  reasoning in learning.

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Teaching with Guided Discovery Students are
presented with

• Intriguing questionsBaffling situations
  Interesting problems
• Instead of of explaining how to solve the
  problem, the teacher provides the appropriate
  materials and encourages students to make
  observations, form hypotheses, and test
  solutions.

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A Baffling Situation

• The washer and the String Activity

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Some Things to Remember when teaching with
Discovery Learning..

• Help students to see connections among concepts
  using open ended questions, diagrams, outlines,
  and summaries.
• Pose a question and let the students try to find
  the answer.
• Encourage students to make intuitive guesses,
  about the definition of a word, or where they
  think a major city would be located on a blank
  map.
• Use guideline questions to help direct the
  students focus.
• Remember this key phrase, Let them TRY IT OUT!