2015 IIME REPORTCountry [ Philippines ]School[ Philippine Nikkei Jin Kai International School ]Teacher [ Jovilline Joyce A. Delgado ] grade ( 5 ) student number ( 35 )Partner [ (JP) Nuka Elementary School ] Teacher [ Mayu Yamada ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Festivals

Hours

Philippine and Japan local festivals and tourist spots

2

Arts

Draw the mural

5Arts

Appreciation and reflection on the work

2

# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeCulture

Message

The students made a research about Philippine and Japan culture. After the research thetopics were discussed within the class and the students learned a lot from it.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
The students learned a lot about this project.
Knowing and being able to learn the Japanese culture
made them appreciate more the culture of twocountries. They love doing the research and was able
to share a lot during our class.

Points for further improvement
It was our first time to join this project, thus there’s
a lot to improve especially in communicating with ourpartner school. There are times that we’re not able
to communicate well in our forum and e-mail.

# How has your impression toward your partner country and/or the world changed?
Change in student’s impression
Change in teacher’s impression
Students start to appreciate more about their The teacher did a lot of supervision only thansurroundings. They became more curious about both teaching what the topic was. It gave the students thecountries (Philippines and Japan’s) life and culture. chance to do the project on their own.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthIntroduction

SEPOCTResearchNOVComposition

DECPainting

Appreciation
ReflectionFEBMARWhat you did
Your students attitude/reflection
Madeanintroduction They were very excited to take photos
through pictures.
and meet the partner school students.
The students made a
research about Japaneseand Philippine culture.
The teacher presented
photos from the partner
school, showing what they
did and the half of the muralthat they’ve proposed.
The students did their workby team. Others did thedrawing,painting,whileothers made a video
presentation.
After finishing the mural, thestudents presented theirwork during the flag raisingceremony in the morning for
all the students in the school
to be seen.

First, they shared what they’ve researchwithin the group and after sharing it bygroup they’ve shared it within the class.
They we’re very excited to choose on
which among the proposed mural will bemade. They even start making their own
design on a paper.
They were very eager and diligent indrawing, painting and filming the video.

They are so proud about the finish
product and at the same time, excited
for the next mural project.

Subject
NihongoNihongoNihongoArts

NihongoNihongo# 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

Aim

ResultA4A

4

How your students have reached it
We made a research out of it and shared some of ourexperiences inside the class.
We learned from the photos sent to us by our partner school. We
also made a research about it, and shared inside the class.

B

3

We only shared photos and letters. Sadly, we’re not able to dovideo conferences but the students enjoyed the experience.

B4B

3B

3

Attitude in learning

A

4

Expression ability

A

4

Appreciation ability

A

4

Understanding theother’s cultures
Communication ability
in the class/with partners

IT skills
Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Collaborationin the class/with partners

Students made use of the resources on the internet. Very
diligent.
Filipino students really love it when they’ve received the letter
form the partner school and were so excited to give their
responses through video message.
Since they work as a team and they have their leaders eachteam they made the project by themselves without muchsupervision.
Very eager to learn more about their partner school and the art.
At first, they look like they don’t have any interest about theproject but as the project continues they start to gain interest in
it. Especially in making research about the topic of the mural.
They made a wonderful job and presented the mural to the entire
campus.