2018 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ Taiwan ]School[ Wen Hua Elementary School ] Teacher [ Fifi, Yahuei, Fu ] Grade (5-6)

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JP school [ Ono Elementary School ] Teacher [ Masami Mokushi ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson

Hours

EnglishTo learn how to introduce ourselves’ culture

10Students’ ClubTo share the finding of ourselves and partner3

To do survey of ourselves and partners and learn how to do VC

6Discuss and design the mural then paint it

16

ComputerArt# Theme and Message of the muralThemeMessage
United thoughts toshare with the world

Culture Exchange and Fusion

Build the bridge
This mural is a bridge connects the world. Not only Japan and Taiwan people
know each other, also people in the world will know us via this mural.
Though we exchange thinking and culture in VC, students combine culture of Taiwan andJapan in the mural. We didn’t only paint our culture but also partner’s. It means students
really get something through VC.

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
1. Students learn how to set up the ICT to have a 1. Through this culture survey, students know local
and Taiwan culture further more.
VC.
2. Students feel and know we can make friends in
2. Introduce themselves and local culture in English.
different country and we can meet in VC. It’s a
3. Do survey to know local culture.
fantastic experiment.
4. Try to do their best to paint the mural even some 3. Through practice and peer co-learning, students
finish the mural together and have a highof them can’t paint well.
achievement in this project.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachersthA bridge is built between Taiwan (Miaoli) and Japan It’s the 4 time I attend in this project but this year I(Gunma). Through this bridge, we make friends and invite four new teachers attend in IIME2018. It’s aappreciate to each other.
challenge for me to guide them and a new teachingexperiment for these four teachers. We discuss manytimes for how to teach students and cooperate
together. I feel grateful to have this team for IIME
2018.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

UNITE
United message/

Mural design

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

Month

What you did

Your students attitude/reflection
Japan students do the same thing.

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Students paint posts for
self-introduction in classthen teacher upload photos
in the forum..

Meet in VC and do
self-introduction.
Taiwanstudents are shy in VC.

We feel Japan students are very
generous.

We do more VCs tointroduce culture to partnerschool.

Japan students are very enthusiastic tointroduce Gunma.

We discuss how to arrange
the mural.

Japan students start to paint the mural

English&Computer

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English&Socialstudy

English&SocialstudyArt

We visit partner school andintroduce, appreciate themural together.
3Subject

Partner school arrange the school-visit
for us including host families.

Japanese&
English&Computer# Effect and evaluation gained through the collaborative learning
Evaluation: Rank 5 to 1 (5: very effective / 4: effective / 3: so- so / 2: not so effective / 1: not effective at all)Expected effectEvaluation

Scenes / points teachers felt the effects

Understanding yourown cultures

5

After learning activity, students know Taiwan and local culture further
more even teachers.

Understanding yourpartner's cultures

4

Gunma is a strange place for us. After this project, we know somefeatures of Gunma.

4

All the information we share are useful for us to performance in themural.

Information literacy(research, share)

Communication ability(interactive exchange)

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Active learningand action
Collaboration(in the class, with partners)

Expression ability(in words, in pictures)

3
3

Students in elementary school don’t have much critical thinking, theylearn everything.

5

Students like the model of “L earning by Doing”. In this project, we adopt
this model a lot such as do survey, discuss, design, draft and painting.

5

My students are from different classes and ages but they still can learn
together well.

5

Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

Taiwan students are shy in VC so their voices are not loud enough.

5

Students English ability is not very good in elementary school, partnerstudents might not understand well, but through concrete painting, weknow the meaning well.
We do school-visit and appreciate the mural together, It’s perfect.