2017 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ Taiwan ]School［ New Taipei Municipal Fuhe Junior High School ］ Teacher ［Tiffany Pan ］ Grade ( 8 ) Member ( 26 )JP School ［ KASUGA integrated Education School of Tsukuba ］ Teacher ［ Seiichi TERASHIMA ］# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Students wrote self-introductions on a learning sheet in English to introduce
themselves to Japanese partners. They also have to try to use English toEnglish
introduce Fuhe Junior High School and Taiwan to Japanese friends orally.
history
Students discussed what theme they are interested in painting..
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computerEnglishart

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Students discussed and decide what themes they are good at and able to paint.
Students in Taiwan orally introduce themselves to Japanese students bySkype. Teachers and students in Taiwan and Japan dicussed and decided thetheme of the mural together.
We got the written self-introduction learning sheets from Japan. Our English
teacher delivered and let students appreciate their introductions.
We got the mural from Japan. The art teacher brings the students to appreciate
the mural with students and take pictures together.
The art teacher organized the date and had the students to paint the mural
together during the winter vacation.
She asked them to draw the sketch first and taught them how to use the paints
correctly.

Hours
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# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

The Legends of Japan and Taiwan

MessageBy painting the mural, we would like to share the important legends of both Japan andTaiwan with the world.

United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
1 They have courage to talk to Japanese partner inEnglish.
2 They are able to communicate their thoughts withJapanese partner. Sometimes, in order to unite thethoughts together, they have to know when to insist
and when to compromise their opinions.

Points for further improvement
We are able to start our preparation earlier. For
example, to decide the participants earlier and toresearch the theme earlier. Those will facilitate thefollowing steps go smoothly.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Students are very excited to be able to finish a mural This is the first time for our art teacher to participate
with Japanese students. They find that they have to in an international project with students. This is aknow not only how to paint but also how to unite the new experience. Our art teacher becomes very
thoughts in English. This project inspire their learning active in preparing the project. She pays a lot ofmotivation.
attention to the details and procedules carefully.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research onthe theme

UNITE
United message/Sep.

Oct.

Nov.

Mural design

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATEReflection/Appreciation

Dec.Jan.

Feb.

What you did
The art teacher finds thestudents who are willing tojoin this project.
I help students to introduce
themselve by Skype.
The art teachers and I
discuss the theme with Mr.
SeiichiTerashima,
theJapanese art teacher andhis students.
After several times of
discussing by Skype andLine, both of us finallydecided our theme.
Japanese students began
painting. Then we got theparcel. It’s a very very big
one with the mural, thepaints, picture books about
the legends they painted, themasks and a lot of sweetcandy. We felt a lot of
blessings in the parcel. We
were very touched. The art
teacher asked our principalthat if we can visit Kasuga
Integrated Education Schoolof Tsukuba on Mar, 2018.
It’s a wonderful mural which
is a collaborative work byKasuga Integrated Education
School of Tsukuba and New
Taipei Municipal Fuhe JuniorHigh School.
We really cherish thischance. So our principal not
only invites the press toreport our work but also
brings 26 students to visit
Kasuga Integrated Educaiton
School of Tsukuba on Mar 7,2018 in person.

Your students attitude/reflection
Students were very excited because
they didn’t have this experience infinishing one painting with students fromJapan.
Students found it was difficult todescribe the theme they were interested
in. They needed more English vocabulary
in art.
Though there were some difficulties,students never gave up. They tried tofind words which they could use incommunication. And they learned someJapanese.
Students were very surprised to see this
precious parcel on Dec. 25 of 2017. It
was a really wonderful Christmas gift for
my students. Because of that, ourstudents came to school during wintervacation to finish the mural together
without any complaints.

Subject
Englishandcomputer
Englishart

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We post the pictures on our school’s
Facebook..
https://www.facebook.com/groups/489950814543160/
The following is the report.

以下是媒體的採訪報導!
【福和國中開學日 展示台日合作壁
畫/中嘉新聞 永和報導】→中嘉新聞 Facebook 粉絲
團 https://www.facebook.com/bbcatv/
videos/1622431687792570/→官網新聞連結 http://www.nvwtv.com.tw/zh_TW/
localnews_content/id/9757

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# 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

4

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)This project motivates students to recall and think how much they
understand in our own culture and what elements and parts they canintroduce to their Japanese partners.
This project inspires students to research our partner’s cultures.

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Originally, students don’t know how to collect information and they areafraid of reading a whole English article. With the help of computer andEnglish teachers, they increase their confidence in not only searching on
Internet but also English reading..
This project facilitates students’ motivation of learning English andJapanese to communicate with their partners.

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During the process, students will think about how to communicate
effectively with their partners.

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Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

Scenes / points teachers felt the effects

Students become actively in learning.
Students are glad to finish one mural together.
Students make progress.
Students become mature in appreciation ability.

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