2017 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ Pakistan ]School[ Modernage Public School & Girl’s College, Abbottabad ]Teacher [ Miss Meheeen Ansar ] Grade ( 9-2nd year )Member ( 13 )JP school [ Tomiya High School ] Teacher [ Miss Mio Yashima ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
CultureIT
Art & Craft

Hours

Women role in Rural and Urban areas of Pakistan and Japan

60

Skype meeting , typing, online forum

50

Students did painting with the best of their ability. They made cards for theirfriends.

60# Theme and Message of the muralThemeMessage
United thoughts to share withthe world

Women Role in Urban and Rural Areas"Feminism isn't about making women strong. Women are already strong. It's aboutchanging the way the world perceives that strength.""There's something so special about a woman who dominates in a man's world. It
takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to nevertake no for an answer."

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gainedThis activity or project helped the students todevelop communication skills, understand women rolein urban and rural areas, work collaboratively, buildfriendship, do research on the topic, and develop
information technology skills and learnt art ofappreciation and reflection.

Points for further improvement
Communication gap must be narrowed down to get
the ultimate goal of the project. Skype meetingsmust be arranged again and again to communicate
views with the partners.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Each year has it own effects on the students. As A teacher I gained a lot of experience. Each andStudents tried to become much closer to their every thing made me excited and motivated to learn
partners inspite of the fact that our partner students and apply. I tried my best to strengthen the bond ofremained much busy in their school activities. friendship with my partner teacher.
Student felt the bond of friendship between the 2 I learnt IT Skills as wellcountries.
Students learnt team work and ways ofcommunication.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

AugustSept

What you didWe made hand written
introduction and pastedpics. Get scanned copy ,made power point
presentation anduploaded.

Your students attitude/reflection
My students were extremely happy andexcited to write their introduction andreading Japanese students hobbies, likes
and dislikes etc.

SubjectEnglish

SHARE
Research onthe theme

UNITE
United message/

October

Nov

Mural design

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

JanFebFeb

My students did researchon the topic “Women Rolein Rural and Urban Areas”
and uploaded on theforum. Our partner school
arranged sessions to getknow how about Pakistan.

Students got excited to know womenrole in their own country and conclude a
comparison between role of Pakistaniand Japanese women. Students were
zealous to find women’s tremendous
roles in different walks of life.

With mutual understanding
we set a message.
Through Skype meeting
we tried to convince ourpartners about the designof the mural but due tosome problem we could
not get the desired
response. Later on
discussion was generated
regarding design of themural but still could not
get a positive answer.

A message was decided with mutual
understanding. Students discussed themessage among themselves. They likethe idea of conveying message.
Our partners shared with us a pencilsketch. We also made a pencil sketch.
Here students learned to narrow down
communication gap but due to busy
schedule of our Japanese partner
problem was faced in the design of themural.

First painting was done by
the Japanese students
then we did painting. Thisyear Japanese students
drew Pakistani side andmy students drew
Japanese side. It was achallenging task for us butstudents by following theinstructions sent by
Ma’am Atsuko, painted
the picture. My students
drew human figures as
cartoonish figures were
not allowed to draw.
Mural unveiling ceremony
was arranged.
Presentation was sharedwith the audience related
to the whole journey ofJAM.

We got the Mural according to theschedule. We started painting our part. It
was the best period for the students asthey practically learnt the way of mixing
colors, sketching etc. They also learnt
team work and giving respect to theviews of other members. They also leantdecision taking ability.

Students expressed their feelings thatthey learnt a lot. They learnt art ofmaking presentation, enhancing speaking
skills and express their feelings throughpaint.
Pics of mural unveiling ceremony wereuploaded on school page as well on theforum which were really appreciated bythe people.

EnglishITArt

Art

EnglishIT

# 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

Understanding yourown cultures

5

Understanding yourpartner's cultures

4Information 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)

44

5

5

3

5

Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

5Scenes / points teachers felt the effects
Students did research on the topic and they learned the way of sharing
their knowledge with other students in the most effective way. They
became able to tell information about women role in every field of life.
Students did research on different Roles of Japanese women as they
were supposed to draw Japanese side. It was challenging task for thembut they learnt the problem solving technique. They collected pictures,
made collages and deliver lectures on Japanese women role in urban andrural areas. Students had shown great interest in this activity as they
were getting information each day.
Students were daily given time to sit in computer lab and research on thetopic as well get an idea about the mural design. Students also learned
the way of using online forum. They shared research with the partner
school as well. Japanese students made charts to share their knowledge
about Pakistan that was a very good activity.
Students got a very good communicative ability in written as well as inspoken form. During Skype, students communicated very well. They also
prepared a Japanese song for their friends.
Critical thinking was enhanced through different activities. Meeting times
were set where students shared their views and learned the art offocusing on the target objectives. They became able to take decisions
and convinced others to be on same page.
My students had gone through active learning process because I wascompletely attached to this project. I especially arranged classes forthem to share their knowledge with the rest of students who were not in
the project but to give them knowledge or information about JAM
project. I was happy to see my students coming especially in our JAM
classes and sharing their views so I can say that through this project not
only JAM participants but also the whole school got benefit. This time inour classes, I observed collages of our mural research pasted on the softboard. Each and every student of my school knows about this project
which is indeed a success for all of us as JAM members.
My students had a good collaboration with each other. We also tried tohave best collaboration with our partner school. Actually our partners
were also involved in other activities so they did not use online forum asmuch regularly as they were expected to do.
Students, no doubt, got very good expression ability. Throughout theproject, I found them on the higher step of sharing and expressing theirideas. Students learned the art of expressing their thoughts throughpictures as well as in words. In school now they are known as “Art Girls”
which made them feel proud. Teachers are invited them in their classes
to help them in art work.
Mural unveiling ceremony was arranged. Mural was appreciated on highscale. Students presented a wonderful presentation in which they shared
the whole journey of Japan Art Mile. Students learnt the art ofpresenting their views.