2014 IIME REPORTCountry [ Russia ]School[ Volzhsky Military School ] Teacher [ Parusova, Ignatova ] grade ( 5 )JP School [ Sijima Elementary School ] Teacher [ Mika Nishimura ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson

number ( 27 )TimesLocal History

Native town

3

Geography

Japan, its culture2

Geography

Kanazawa, its sights and history

2Artpainting

5

Art

Appreciation of the mural3# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeMessage

Native town
To learn about the life in the partners’ city and to show them what our local town is like.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
They learned more about our local history, sights, To keep to the schedule, to arrange a video
famous people of our native place. Our students know conference.
more about Japan and Kanazawa now.
They practiced teamwork, many of them learned totake the responsibility, to help each other. It was also
very useful to communicate in English.

# How has your impression toward your partner country and/or the world changed?
Change in student’s impression
Change in teacher’s impression
Our students didn’t know much about Japan before I’ve been always interested in Japanese culture.
the project. The main thing they’ve learnt is that the Getting ready for our lessons I found some more
Japanese are very friendly and openhearted.
facts about some similarities in our cultures.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthIntroduction

Sep.

ResearchOct

Nov
Dec

Composition

Painting

Appreciation
Reflection

JanFebMarch

What you did
An introduction video about
our class.
Made an internet research
about Japan and Kanazawa.
An excursion about ournative town.

Your students attitude/reflection
They were enthusiastic about the film,
tried hard to make it interesting.
They got really interested.
Students were surprised because theylearned a lot of new about the local
history and sights.

We made sketches of themural, held an opinion poll at
school to choose the mostinteresting things for themural.
Students came to school
even on Saturday tocomplete the work on time,
though it’s our day off.
We showed the mural an
spoke about the project at
the regional conference forEnglish teachers.
We also took part in thetown
conferenceofstudents’ projects to tellpupils from other schools
about the Mural.

Each child had his/her own idea about
the sights that we should choose for themural.
Said it was the most interesting part ofthe project.
Students were really proud to tell
everyone about the project, to show theresults of the work.
Teachers and students from otherschools were very impressed.

Subject
EnglishLocal
HistoryArt
Local
HistoryArt

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

IT skills
Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Collaboration

AimResultA

5

A

5

A

4

C

3

A

4

How your students have reached it
They worked in the library, searched the internet for the
information about local history and culture.
Our partners sent us very interesting letters with theinformation about their city.
We had no problem with communication in class. As forcommunication with partners it was difficult because the level ofEnglish of our students is not very high now.
It was not the main aim of our project
If the students knew English better it would be easier for them tobecome friends with our partners.
Each pupil took part in the project, they helped and supported
each other. As for collaboration with partners we’d like to be
more active next time.
Most students were active.

A

4

Attitude in learning

A

5

Expression ability

A

4

We still need more practice.

Appreciation abilityA

5

We shared the results of the project at school, town and regional
activities.

in the class/with partners