School Health Development Project for All Cambodian ChildrenVol. 2Issued date: April 30, 2021

Message from TEC Directors
On behalf of Teacher Education College (TEC) and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport(MoEYS), I'd like to express my sincere thanks to Tokyo Gakugei University for the School
Health Project and for organizing this training workshop with the support of the Nippon
Foundation to Lecturers in the TEC, both in Phnom Penh and Battam Bang, regarding to theHealth Education contents have been developed for TEC curriculum. The Health Education is acrucial challenge for TEC as well as for Cambodian Education due to lack of lecturers orteachers specialized in this subject, whereas it does include in the current school curriculum.
Truly, we would be difficult in the development of health education syllabus and the teaching
document without the support of Tokyo Gakugei University and the Nippon Foundation. I also
Dr. Set Sengstrongly believe that through this project we will produce qualified teachers specialized inDirectorof Phnom Penh
Health Education for schools in Cambodia graduating from the TEC in future.
Teacher
Education
CollegeAgain, I'd like to express my gratitude to Tokyo Gakugei University and the Nippon
Foundation, as well as KIZUNA for serving as a key role for Health Education Development for
Teacher Education in Cambodia. I hope our lecturers can learn new knowledge and skills fromthis training workshop building their capacity to perform their teaching in this healtheducation course to student teachers with the quality and effectiveness responding to the TEC
missions.
Please allow me to introduce myself. I’m Bin Chum, the Director of Battambang Teacher
Education College. It is a pleasure for me to be a part of this project. I am overjoyed that Tokyo
Gakugei University has chosen eight BTEC lecturers to participate in this training course on
developing curriculum and health education training. I'd like to thank Tokyo Gakugei Universityfor their support and for taking the time to create a new syllabus for the health education topicof course syllabus for student teacher 12+4 (Primary Education and Lower SecondaryDr. Bin ChumEducation) in year 4. Furthermore, I would like to encourage all lecturers to participate in thisDirector of Battambang
training with enthusiasm and to work together effectively.
Teacher Education CollegeSchool Health 3rd WS Report(Yuuka MASUKO, Thay Sokheng)

Tokyo Gakugei University held a 3rd School Health Workshop on March 29th and 30th 2021 on the topic “Child growthand development” and “Lifestyle and health” participate by 16 lecturers and management team from both Phnom Penhand Battambang Teacher Education College which conducted by Japanese professors through online. Both topics arevery important for health education. Moreover, participants had active discussions in order to understand more details.
It was a good opportunity for lectures to learn and gain new knowledge about School Health and also for Japanese
project members to know more about Cambodia’s culture and lifestyle throughout this workshop.

Phnom Penh OfficeMs. Chhum Kunthy
PTEC
Thank for all the professors and staff who organized thishealth education program and shared their goodknowledge and experience from Japanese professors.
I really got and learned a lot of new knowledge from thisonline workshop. Thank you.

Mr. Mao Veasna
BTEC
I noticed that the workshop process went smoothly, thelecturer explained the lesson easily and acted on thelesson content clearly and very relevant, which made thelearners want to learn more.

Greetings from TGU Student
Two students at Tokyo Gakugei University who are interested in global
health assist this project. Their major is Nursing Education and they
study to be a teacher in charge of school health called “Yogo teacher”
in Japanese. Here they will introduce themselves and what Yogoteacher is.
Left: Akari

Right: Aoi

My name is Akari Ito. I am a sophomore at Tokyo Gakugei
University and majoring Nursing education. I graduated fromLexington high school in the United States in 2019. The reason
why I join this project is that global issues are a part of myinterest. Also, I was looking for something that I can practice
my English. Around the time, I heard that Prof. Asakura islooking for some students to assist this project, and I
contacted him to join it.
From my experience at schools in Japan and the United States,
both Yogo teachers and school nurses have pros and cons andit is hard to decide which job is better than the other.
However, the biggest difference is that Yogo teacher is one of
the educators and the school nurse is one of the medicalworkers. A nursing certificate is not necessary to become aYogo teacher. Therefore, the Yogo teachers’ knowledge inmedical field may be less than nurses. Despite that, I chose a
Yogo teacher over a school nurse as my dream because thefocus of Yogo teachers is to support and educate students. Oneof the Yogo teachers’ jobs is health education. Health is a very
fundamental thing for our well-being and providing
information about health from an early age will leave a positive
impact on students. Furthermore, children in Japan face many
complicated issues that have deep connections with theirmental health. Therefore, Yogo teachers often are needed toplay a role as counselors for students. When it comes totreating students with health complaints, it is important toevaluate students’ states not only from the medical standpoint
but also from various and wide perspectives.

I’m Aoi Michishita, and a sophomore at Tokyo
Gakugei University. I study to become Yogo teacher inmajor of Nursing Education, Faculty of Education.
When I was a junior high school student, I wasinterested in the international cooperation likeUNICEF. However, I couldn’t do anything about it.
When I was a first-year student at university, I heard
about this project. I participated in it because I wantto try.
Every Japanese school has a health room andstudents can receive both physical and mental careby Yogo teacher. Yogo teacher is a teacher who
promotes health of children and works educationally.
Yogo teacher plays the only role in school and its job
is uniquely found in Japan. When a boy injured hisknee, Yogo teacher doesn’t only treat his injury, butalso teaches how a wound heals. That makes him
understand his mechanism of the human body andlearn how to be responsible for his health. Yogo
teachers’ job also includes classing on health and onnutrition. Since I need to be familiar with medicine,nutrition and health information to work as Yogo
teacher, I study hard at the university.

The Nippon Foundation member
Yuji MORI
Executive Director
It is my great hope that health education will be properly provided to the school
children by all of you in the future. These children will be the energy of nationbuilding in Cambodia.

James HUFFMAN
Program Director
Roles: Team leader responsible for projects and programs in Southeast and Central Asia.
By raising the general level of health and sanitation of the population, health education
has a deeper impact on a nation's development than almost any other field. We areproud to be a part of this important initiative in Cambodia.

Internship at TGU

Hitomi NOMIYAMA
Project Coordinator
Roles: School Health Project in Cambodia and Peace Building Project in Myanmar.
TNF has been subsidizing Tokyo Gakugei University and truly expect that you will take agreat part in improving school health in Cambodia. I’d love to talk with you if you areinterested in TNF!

Project members in Japan
These Japanese teachers are writing textbook for primary education course of TEC. They will join workshops as a lecturer
from now on and visit Cambodia after COVID-19 pandemic ends.

Takashi ASAKURAProfessor, Project leader

Haruka SUZUKI
Research AssistantFaculty of Education, Tokyo Gakugei
University

Faculty of Education, Tokyo Gakugei
University

Field: Global School Health, Mental Health, Sociology ofHealthResearch theme: Social determinants of health, Psychosocial well-being of children and adolescents

I have an experience in working in Laos for 2 years asa JICA volunteer. South-east Asia is the field that I’minterested in. It is an honor to be involved in thisproject. I’ve been to Cambodia only twice. I’d like toget to know about Cambodia through talking withyou. I hope to see you all in person!

I had been working for Tokyo Gakugei University over 30
years since my graduation from Tokyo University. Now I
am an emeritus professor. I enjoy working on this project.

Hirofumi MONOBE
Professor

Naoko AOYAGIProfessor

College of Education, Yokohama
National University

College of Education, Ibaraki University

Field: Health education, School healthResearch theme: Health and safety qualities and abilities ofTeachers

Field: Environmental physiology, Health Science
Research theme: Elucidation of the mechanism andfunction of biological rhythms in humans

I studied at Tokyo Gakugei University for nine years ofbachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs. I enjoyedhaving a workshop with you. Everyone was so hard andlovely！Thank you!

I graduated from Tokyo Gakugei University. I lookforward to discussing school health at the 4thworkshop.

Sadako NAKAMURA
Professor
Graduate School of Human Life
Sciences/Dept. Food Science, Jumonji
University

Chikage SAITO
Associate Professor
Faculty of Education, Saitama University

Field: Nutritional physiology and biochemistry
Research theme: Evaluation of safety and finding out ofnovel physiological functions in nondigestible saccharides

Field: Yogo teacher education, School healthResearch theme: Current status and problems of Yogo
practical training

My supervisor was Prof. Asakura when I was a graduate
student. I appreciate that I had the opportunity to learn alot in the last WS.

I took my master’s degree at Tokyo Gakugei
University. Thank you for your help in the workshop.
And Let's continue to think about children's health
together. I want to go to Cambodia someday!

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