2017 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ Malawi ]School[ MATITI PS/Mgwangwa PS ] Teacher [ Lucious Banda, Rina Sakurai ]JP school [ Uryu Elementary School ] Teacher [ Kenji Kaiyama ]Grade (5 ) Member (120)# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson

Hours

Expressive arts

Japanese culture, food, Toys

4

Expressive arts

Express myself (favorite food, favorite subject and dream)

3

Expressive arts

Drawing ( including draft)10# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Culture, food, sports

Message

Knowing yourself is knowing myself.
peacefully.

That’s the only reason that we live together

United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
They always try to study or archive their tasks and Hope they remember this memory.
asking me about next lesson.
They couldn’t wait for the next lesson.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
They still want to know about Japan. ( Language, Nothing but teachers are also wanting to know
food, culture.)
Japanese.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonth

What you did
Your students attitude/reflection
Introduce card.
They enjoyed it.
Students wrote information
about themselves.

Expressive

Studyabout
foods,agriculture, traditional dance
and nature.

They always having fun and keen on this.
Expressive

They always having fun and keen on this.

Mural design

Made draft several times.
Divide into 10 groups andthey draft it.
Based on these draft, theydrawn carefully.

They always having fun and keen on this.

CREATE

MEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research onthe theme

UNITE
United message/

Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

OctJanNovJanJanFeb

MarchSubject

arts

arts

Expressivearts

Expressivearts

Now we are going to do inMarch.

Using this project. Students always try
to archive with passion and try to lesson
teacher’s orders.

Expressivearts# 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 effectEvaluation

Scenes / points teachers felt the effects
Knowing new things are always interesting.

Understanding yourown cultures

3

Understanding yourpartner's cultures

3

In a village, “Meet foreigners” is first time so they were so surprised ateverything.

4

For students in Malawi, this is the first meet in their life that do together
with foreign students so it was amazing time.

3

In a village, “Meet foreigners” is first time so they were so surprised ateverything.

3

Unfortunately, in Malawi, there is no chance to do critical thinking
because of some reasons but they tried their best.

3

First, they can’t continue studying but through some activities, they had
enjoyed studying.

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)

4
4Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

They also study their culture so they did it what they want.
In a village, “Meet foreigners” is first time so they were so surprised ateverything.
Students in Malawi were so happy to archive this one.

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