T2017 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ Taiwan ]School [ Chien-Kuo Junior High School ] Teacher [ Dolphin Lin ] Grade ( 8 )Member ( 29 )JP School ［ Jinzumidori Elementary School / Nirehara Junior High School ］ Teacher ［ Yasuhiro Hori ］# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Social study
Language
Arts

Hours

Knowing Japan, Japanese culture, reflect to our own culture

10

Writing introduction cards, doing reports, sharing, video conference20

Painting the mural30# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Children are the treasure of the world

MessageThrough the painting, we want people to reflect on the value of family and are remindedthat our children are our greatest treasure.

United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
Communication skills , collaboration, critical thinking, More presentation chances in each stage needed to
citizenship, creativity , appreciate Japanese culture
be given to my students.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
1. Having what they learn in the textbook into 1. Improving teaching skills
practice
2. Motivating teaching thoughts
2. Loving the language arts lessons more
3. Working with other teachers and Japanese
3. Knowing more about the world and are willing toteachers
work with others

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

UNITE
United message/

Mural design

CREATE
Mural painting

SepOctNov
Dec

What you did
1.Making Introduction Cards
2.Shipping Cultural package
3. Video ConferenceYour students attitude/reflection
They are willing to demonstrate our own
culture to partner school.

Students in groups doing thereports, making PPT, andrecording for the PPT.

They learned how to collect data andmake it a complete report. They also
learned how to make a good PPT.

Students with talents inpainting offer drafts for themural. Teachers helped toorganize the drafts for thedesign.
Students drew the mural.

At first, they were not sure if they could
make it.

JanFeb1.

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

Feb

2.
3.

The mural was hung in
the classroom.
The mural was hung inthe school library.
Demonstrating
theproject to schoolmates.

SubjectLanguage

Socialstudy
LanguageTechnologyArts

They enjoyed the process and had agreat sense of accomplishment after
completing the mural.
They were so proud of themselves andfelt incredible that they were able tofinish this project.

Arts

Language# 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)

Evalua
tion

555
4
455
3.5

Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

5

Scenes / points teachers felt the effects
Students were able to introduce our own culture to partners with PPT
and through video conference.
Students were able to introduce partner’s culture to schoolmates andteachers.
Students were able to collect data, and made it a PPT.
Students were able to visit the forum and answered the questions of
their partners.
Students were able to ask questions and offer their thought to theinformation on the forum.
To complete the project, they put what they learned in class and in thetextbook into practice.
Students had to do the report in groups and drew the mural withclassmates, so they learned how to work with others.
Students were able to do good written report, however, they were always
shy to speak out.
Students were able to give comments and shared their feelings.