No] Collaborative | Date of post Details of the post Inquiry Idea 1. | Collaborative — | Oct 28", 2017 | Hello, Inquiry Design for a class of 4-year- old students | am considering about how to design and apply a collaborative inquiry for my children, who are 4 years old. My lesson is focus on teaching them how they can distinguish even and odd numbers. Initially, my plan is developed as below. 4. | will randomly form groups of children based on colors. Every child counts as yellow will be in yellow group, every child counts as green will be in green group, and so on. 2. lassign each group a number of apples. 3. | require them to find how many couples of apples that their group have and ask them how they will do with the remaining apple that, is not in any couples. How do they feel when their groups have all couples and when their groups have apples that are not in any couples? 4. They will answer all of my questions.5. | explain to them that if any number of apples that | give their group can make all couples, it is even number. Otherwise, it is odd number. | hope that through this collaborative inquiry project, they can understand well even and odd numbers. Do you have any comments for me? Thanks a lot! Collaborative Inquiry Design for uncommunicative students, Oct 29%, 2017 Hello, ‘Among my classes, there is a special one, which comprises of many uncommunicative students. | tried to raise their motivation in learning by different ways like playing to leaming, watching videos and then discussing on topics mentioned in the video, roles play, etc, However, they just felt motivated in 15 - 20 first minutes. Then, they demotivated and the achievement gap was still not as my expectation. How can I change my teaching methods? How can | apply the collaborative inquiry learning approach to conduct my lessons. For example, I will keep them away from the class and go to the park of the school to have spaces for them to interact with others and develop their communication skills? Thank you in advance for your suggestions and comments! Using technology to support Collaborative Inquiry Oct 30%, 2017 Hello, I am planning to apply the collaborative inquiry in my class of grade 3", The learning objective is to equip my students knowledge on balanced-nutrient meals. My initial plan is in details as below: 1. | divide my students in groups of 3-5 people based on a game.2 1 will show a video mentioning about negative consequences of unbalanced — nutrient meals and some statistics on obesity as well malnutrition of students at their age. 3. | ask them to work in group setting to figure out problems and solutions for problems mentioned in the video assuming that they are experts of Health Organization (to motivate them since they will be proud of being experts rather than students). They can access _into computers with internet connection to find data. 4. My students will work in group setting and present their results by different formats — role play, presentation, drawing pictures, etc. I would love to get your comments in order for me to have the best design for my class. Thanks a lot. To foster a culture of collaborative learning/inquiry in class Oct 30%, 2017 Hello, Although Collaborative Inquiry is helpful for students to learn new things and develop their skills, it is not easy to foster this culture in classes because of several reasons. It takes time, efforts, and resources of teachers to design lessons based on collaborative inquiry projects. While many students are active, others are inactive. Therefore, in ‘groups, works may be implemented by some students, not all students comprising such groups. In many cases, teachers may not feel safe to organize classes using collaborative inquiry approach. Do you have any experiences in fostering the culture of collaborative inquiry in classes? | would love to hear from you! Thank you!