Developing the Inquiry-Based Teaching Skills among Pre-Service Teachers in Xavier University through Lesson Study

This paper presents a collaborative action research on lesson study whichaims to describe the changes in inquiry-based teaching strategies of pre-serviceteachers and to determine the improvements and challenges that they experiencedduring the lesson study. The inquiry-based teaching skills in this study focusedon the questioning skills, communication skills and the presentation of thelesson. The implementation of the Inquiry-based Teaching was conducted atMacasandig Elementary School, Cagayan de Oro City. The research team wascomposed of student teachers, DepEd Science teachers and researchers. Datasources were (a) participant interviews, (b) field notes/observations, (c) teacherreflection journals, (d) Inquiry-Based Teacher Rubrics, and (e) audio and videorecordings of the implementations of the lesson and brainstorming sessions.The lesson study cycle was implemented collaboratively from the planning ofthe research lesson during the pre-conferences, to the lesson implementation,followed by the post-conferences where brainstorming was done. Revisions were integrated and the lesson was then implemented. The results of the lesson studywere the improvement of implementers’ questioning and communication skillsand a clearer delivery of the lesson with appropriateness in using Inquiry-basedteaching method. Hence, inquiry-based teaching skills can be developed throughproductive collaboration using lesson study.

Keywords: Science, inquiry teaching-based skills, questioning and communicationskills, lesson study, Philippines