2015 IIME REPORTCountry ［ Taiwan ］
School ［ Wen Hua Elementary school ］ Teacher ［ Fifi, Ya-huei, Fu ］ grade (5-6) student number (22 )Partner [ (JP) Josuikita Elementary School ］ Teacher ［ Yuuki Suzuki ］# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
EnglishHours

Culture introduction, self-introduction,

3

Sel- introduction posts, Draft of the mural, painting

10Japanese

招呼語

8

Presention

Present the mural to all teachers and schoolmates.

1Art# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

CultureMessage

Cloth, vehicle, religion, Nation flag, landmark, fruits, food, traditional toy,

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
There are 22 students join in 2015 IIME. Students are in
fifth and sixth grade. It’s their first time to join ininternational project and IIME is a well-structure
project. Through joining in this project, students use
English as most as they know to communicate withJapan students. They learn Japan culture from Josuikita
friends.
9 students visit Josuikita ES without any allowance andwe appreciate the mural together. It’s a perfectexperience that we know each other in digital world thenwe meet in real world.

Points for further improvement
We run this project as a student club and all
students are volunteers. Students are very excitedthat we are going to have school-visit so they try to
do their best in every project class.
Students want to do the project again and teachers
hope there will be more teachers join in this project.

# How has your impression toward your partner country and/or the world changed?
Change in student’s impression
Change in teacher’s impression
It’s the first time of most students know the culture It’s my third time to join in IIME. I got differentof Japan. They are very lucky that Josuikita students experiences and friends in each time. I have a new
introduce a lot of interesting items. Now kids are partner (teacher) in my school and I hope there willfriends and we keeping touch. Hope the friendship be more teachers join in this project so that it might
will last long.
be more interesting.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthIntroduction

Sep
OctResearch

Oct

Composition

Nov
Dec

Painting

Dec
Jan

What you didSelf-introduction post

Prepare the VC.

VC & Draft

Japanese & Painting
Presentation & Appreciation

Appreciation
Reflection

JanYour students attitude/reflection
Students make post to introduce
themselves
andpracticeoral
introduction. We share photos in theforum.
Students collect data and informationand choose something special
We have VC and after VC we begin todesign the draft. Students begin to learn
Japanese.
Students keep learning Japanese and we
receive the mural and start to paint it.
Students present the mural to allteachers and explain what they do in thisproject.
Keep learning Japanese.

Subject
EnglishEnglishArtJapaneseArtJapaneseArtJapanese# 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
Understanding our own
cultures
Understanding theother’s cultures
Communication ability
in the class/with partners

IT skills
Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Collaborationin the class/with partners

Attitude in learning

Expression ability

Appreciation ability

AimResult44

How your students have reached it
Through VC and the mural, we know different kinds of Japan
culture such as toy, origami, food etc.

3

5

Through school-visit including host families, we really know more
about Japan culture such as how important breakfast is, how to go
to school in snowing day, how to play snow, how friendly are
Japanese are etc.

44Though students learn English at school but they are justchildren, they still can’t talk too much.

2

2

4

5

4

5

4

5

I worry about students’ attitude in the beginning (maybe they arenot positive enough). But I found they really enjoy in this project.

5

Though children’s language abilities(English and Japanese) are
not good enough but they they try to do their best and they
combine gesture words even google translation app insmartphone. I found they have the ability of problem solving.

5

When the mural arrived. All of us were very excited to appreciate itand we hope we can paint the mural as well as Japanese students.
After we finished the painting, students were satisfied and they dolike to appreciate and share the mural with other students atschool.

34

We didn’t focus on IT skills this year. But it’s their first time tohave VC.
It’s really good to make friends with teachers and students at
Josuikita ES. Even now this project is over, we hope thefriendship between will last.
No matter in the class or with partners, we collaborate smoothly
and have mutual understanding..