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.