2015 IIME REPORTCountry [ France ]School [ Collège Saint Paul-Rezé ]Teacher [ Carel Bama/ Laurent Burneau /Francoise Koper ] grade (11 & 12) student number (25)
JP School [ Tenryo Elementary School ] Teacher [ Kyoko Miyamoto/ Yuki Kawashima ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
EnglishTimes

Cultural heritage of our towns

8IT

Use of Video presentation, Sharing videos, online forum

4

Art

Draw a mural and reflection of the whole work

6

# Theme and Message of the muralLocal culture and symbol of our heritage—we introduce the local culture (the Elephant ofthe Royal de Luxe Company) and the symbols of Nantes (elephant, Buren ring., Lieu
ThemeUnique, passage Pommeraye) and the Mine coal of Fukuoka from Japan and also thedragon and the best view of the river.
We did research about the local cultural heritage and Nantes tourism symbols and also t
about the Mine Coal and the dragon, We did learn about the history of the Mine coal inMessage
Fukuoka.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
The students experienced a lot of things, because
they have to know their own culture and should gavesome explanations about them to the students inJapan; they did deep and developed researches.
Also, they learned new things about Japan itself
especially. They introduced one another too when
they did video presentation. Overall, the students
enjoyed this great project.

Points for further improvement
Perhaps for further improvement, the students canhave the group access to the platform online orother social media so that they can benefit from
intense relationship and they will come up with thenew ideas too for this project. This is our firstinternational project for UNESCO. For a period oftime with many students. Wish to have another same
project in the future, and to get more experiences# 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 care about the world around them. The teaching experience is different from theStudents learn to understand people from other in-class teaching. Students gained the opportunity tocountry.
express their ideas whether in class or outclass. The
Students learn about the new culture, habits and role for the teacher is to guide and facilitate them,festivals of another country but aware to learn about not to teach them; so, we both can share ideas andother country’s culture and festivals.
experience.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthIntroduction

What you did
Introduction

Your students attitude/reflection
The students at first were reallyconfused and they were reluctant to do
the video sharing on introduction.
However, after they had the explanationfrom the teacher, they were really
happy to shoot on the video and made it
over and over.

Sep

Research and interactive
learning on the common topic.

ResearchOct

Composition

Nov

Exchanging ideas about thepainting and what we aregoing to paint.
Painting one half from theJapan partner school

Painting

Nov-JanAppreciation
Reflection

Feb

Painting anotherfrench students

halfbyThe mural was sent back toJapan and in Japan, the mural
was hung in the Tenryo
Eementary
SchoolofFukuoka.

The students were really happy
because they can go outside the school
to do the research about the local
culture materials that they would like toshare.
The students were excited and gave a
lot of ideas to be drawn.

Subject

EnglishIT

EnglishEnglish
Art

The students were waiting for the muralcoming from Japan impatiently andwere really excited about it.
The students were painting the half ofthe mural and they were really excitedthat they forgot to take the picture withthe completed mural,

EnglishArt

Students were so happy to see themural was being shown in Japan andthey were so proud that their muralwhich was their result of research
about local culture was well known inJapan. EnglishArt# 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

Aim

ResultUnderstanding our owncultures

A

5

Understanding theother’s cultures

B

4

Communication ability
in the class/with partners

IT skills

B

3A

5

How your students have reached it
They really understood and appreciated their own culture andbecame aware about their own culture and also they talked verymuch about their new knowledge related to their own culture.
We learned from the video presentation and did a research on
the Internet. They students felt so much fun and learned more.
Communication ability in the class was running so well however,the students’communications with partners were not reallymuch built up but only in a standard rate.
They all are IT minded, I guess. They really had fun.

Creating friendship

Creating friendship without geting into depth friendship, justknowing one another.

B

3

B

4

Attitude in learningA

5

The students were really excited about the new things. They
were also positive and active towards this project.

Expression abilityB4They developed themselves from time to time until they got theclear concept about this project.

Appreciation ability

B4in the class/with partners

Collaborationin the class/with partners

The collaboration was running so well.

They did a great job in painting.