Applying Guided Discovery Learning to Enhance the Achievement of Information Technology Team

The fast development of IoT and ChatGPT is urging the change of educational method. The traditional methods are being gradually replaced with discovery learning, the method of teacher-centered learning is transferred to student-centered learning. The discovery learning method is developed to guided discovery learning model to apply in educational institutions. This experimental research applied guided discovery learning method for training the information technology team of a gifted high school to take national excellent student prize. A clustering algorithm is applied to set up the team. The research also constitutes an algorithm to evaluate the efficiency of guided discovery learning method for each lecture, where teacher is involved in the evaluation. The result of guided discovery learning method is proved with 3 prizes got by the 2022 team comparing with 1 prize of the 2021 team applying traditional learning method, which is considered as control team of this experiment. An issue which need to be discussed is the increase of teacher’s time and energy for the preparation before class and teacher’s self-motivation during class to apply guided discovery learning method.