2017 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ Taiwan ]School [ Taipei Municipal Ying-Qiao Elementary School ]Teacher [ Wanting Shih ]Grade (3.4.5.6) Member ( 21 )JP school [ Hadanashi Elementary School ] Teacher [ Mineyuki Kurino ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
CultureResearch ability
Art

Hours

To know Japan culture and find the specific features of our own culture.

12

How to make a questionnaire, statistic and analysis of data, composed a report.

20To know and practice the skills of painting, drawing the mural18# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme
Message
United thoughts toshare with the world

The good thing of our hometown
The theme we want to present to the world including animals or plants unique to thespecial environment between our school, such as landmarks,culture,nature scene, toys or
traditional costumes.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
The students learned the things in common and It was the first time to join the IIME project. It was adifferent between the cultures of Japan and Taiwan. little difficult to communicate in English, but the fruit
They spent lots of time making the survey research
to analysis the most representative features of our was great. We believe we’ll do it better next time.
hometown, and put the features into our mural.
During this process, they also learned how tocooperate smoothly.
# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachersIt’s not often to have the opportunity to do To cooperate with teachers abroad is excited.
international cooperative learning in our school, so Before, we knew the beautiful Scenery spot andthe students expressing positivity. They’ve learned delicious food of Japan, but now we know more about
how to communicate with students abroad, and the education and culture of Japan. It’s a fresh andcared what’s happening in the world more often.
interesting experience.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

UNITE
United message/

AugSep

Oct

Nov

Mural design

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

DecJanWhat you did
We introduced ourselves andgot know each other well.
We've talked about ourtheme a little.
We discussed about thetheme, which is" share thegood thing of our country to
the world."
We've done our survey byquestionnaire to get theinformation about the theme.
We've exchanged our ideas
about the theme of mural,and shared the sketch on
the forum.
We painted the mural. During
the painting process, wesent the Xmas card and giftto each other.
We held an exhibition in ourschool to show our result.
Everyone who saw the mural
was very impressive about
our cooperation work.

Your students attitude/reflection
Students were excited to introduce
themselves by the video reference, andthey really wanted to make some friends
abroad.
Students were interested to find out thethings in common and different between
cultures of Japan and Taiwan.
Students were focused on making thesurvey report in English, and they feelsatisfied to post reports on the forum.
Students showed the positivity indiscussing and uniting the ideas of mural.
They were happy to see their concepts
combine perfectly with students abroad.
Students worked really hard during theprocess of painting, and they enjoyeddrawing so much.
Students felt really proud and excited topresent the mural in front of all thestudents, teachers and parents. They
had the sense of achievement about
their work.

Subject
EnglishEnglishResearc
hability

EnglishCultureArt

EnglishCultureArt# 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 effect
Understanding yourown cultures
Understanding yourpartner's cultures
Information literacy(research, share)

Communication ability(interactive exchange)

Critical thinking(objective, critical views)

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

Expression ability(in words, in pictures)

Evaluation

54543554

Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

5

Scenes / points teachers felt the effects
I am a new teacher in my school,so I don’t familiar with the culturearound my school. Join the IIME and research with my students makes
me learn more.
Our partner school share a lots of things to us! It helps a lots!
During we are making research,we not only search on the internet ,wealso visited the landmark and interect with the people who live there.
I think we communicate very smoothly.
I am not sure we have enough critical thinking.
Through this project,we learned not only painting,Japaness,research,andour hometown.
We use LINE to communicate with Japan immediately,and it also help us
to know each other more by picture.
I think we have done it good alreadyWe are very happy that we have chance to collaborate with Japan,so wemade a video for them.