2016 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ Kyrgyzstan ]School [ SOS Children’s Village Bishkek ] Teacher [ Miya Katayama ] Grade ( 4～10 )JP school [ Kakamigahara Special Support School ] Teacher [ Natsuka Omae ]Member ( 11 )# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Culture/Knowing the culture of own and other countries, also understanding each other.
Traditional

Hours
6

Peace

Thinking about peace and cultivating a heart of consideration.

7Art

Learning creativity, cooperativeness, achievement feeling8# Theme and Message of the muralThemeMessage
United thoughts toshare with the world

Keep your Traditional culture, understand others, and what is Peace for you??
Understand the differences between culture, race and way of thinking, and let everyone
have a feeling of compassion, so that the world will be peaceful

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
It became a wonderful opportunity to learn about
various cultures and to engage foreigners. In addition,
through peace learning, they could learn compassion.
Also, they could learn about cooperating with friends,
saying opinions properly and the importance of doing
it to the end. Taken together, international exchanges
expanded the knowledge and vision of children.

Points for further improvement
Activities were carried out in the daytime on
Saturday, so sometimes there were children whocame and did not come. I should have said it morestrictly. However, there were a lot of children who
were working with great interest, and it was goodthat mural painting was completed well.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Their image for Japan is so beautiful and technology Same as children.
is progressing country. There are many good robots. Kyrgyz people are originally very Japanophile.
In addition to them, they understood about Miseryhistory, too. Before learning it, they thought our They said they were more interested in japan thanworld is very peaceful, but now they knew the before and want to go there someday.
current situation in the world and began to wish for The staff’s way of thinking also expanded.
peace more strongly.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEETSelfintroduction

Sep

What you did

Your students
attitude/reflection
Introduced each other and wrote message They were interested infor nice to meet you.
Japanese friends andExchanged pictures and video.
enjoyed.
Decided the theme
They were very active to(culture, tradition, peace)know new things and toshow own culture too.
1.Culture/Tradition
Learned, drew and took some pictures
about Kyrgyzstan culture （ clothes, food,nature, history, instruments ）for partner.

SHAREResearch onthe theme

Oct2, Peace learning through Hiroshima.
Thought about [What’s your peace],wrote message and made crane for partnerand Hiroshima.

They were really excited
to create pictures, lettersand crane, also glad tosend everything to Japan.

SubjectKnowingeachotherLearning
cultureandpeace*1 and 2 everything sent to partner andHiroshima.

UNITE
United message/

Mural design

Shared what children learned.
Partner taught us Japanese culture andhistory of Okinawa war also they gave us
Japanese traditional fabric called [Saori]
Nov

They understood different
culture and appreciate
own peaceful environment.
Moreover, when they got
presents from Japan, theylooked very happy andremembered 2 Japanese[KIZUNA 絆] and[HEIWA 平和]

Learning
cultureandpeace

Discussed with design.
Most important thing is how to describe
our theme (learned)

CREATE
Mural painting

DecJanStarted to draw

All reviewed.
APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

Feb

They said,
we wanted to describe
Peace and culture throughrainbow, olive, wing, crane,
dove traditional clothes,nature.
It means this project gave
all children wonderful
effect.
Everyone was satisfied theMural and looked happy.

We hang the painting in the school andexhibit after this sent to Japan.

drawingreview# Aim of the Lessons and Result
Aim: Rank A to C in order you put emphasis on (A: very much/ B: much / C: not so much)
Result: Rank 5 to 1 (5: very effective / 4: effective / 3: so- so / 2: not so effective / 1: not effective at all)

Expected Effect

Aim

ResultUnderstanding our owncultures

A5

How your students have reached it
Kyrgyzstan people always follow own culture, so not so difficult.
Culture is continuing to convey properly.

Understanding theother’s cultures

A5Partners and JICA volunteer gave them many information about
Japan with many pictures.

Communication ability

They did good communication in the class, but with partners justexchanged the letters and video. I should have had a videoconference. Anyway they were always positive to do.
They used just Inter-net

B

4

C2

A

4

They discussed a lot of things through letters, pictures, andvideo many times, so they became good friends.

Collaborationin the class/withpartners

A

5

They were able to reflect the results of all the discussions in themural

Attitude in learning

A

4

They were very active and enjoying their activities, but somestudents sometimes didn’t come to class.

Expression ability
in words, in pictures

A5

in the class/with partners

IT skills
Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Appreciation ability
Appreciate the mural andthe whole collaborative
learning

A5

They learned very well and enjoyed.
Learning creativity, cooperativeness, achievement feeling.
They are really satisfied with the mural and this project.