2018 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ Taiwan ]School[ Taipei Municipal Ying-Qiao Elementary School ] Teacher [ Shih Wan Ting ] Grade ( 4-6 )Member ( 20 )JP school [ Mutsumihokubu Elementary School ] Teacher [ Yoko Sugiyama ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson

Hours

CultureTo know Japan culture and find the specific features of our own culture.

6Language

Greeting with people in different country

6Social etiquette

To know the social etiquette in different situation.

4Research ability

How to use the internet to research the information of the theme.

6To know and practice the skills of painting, the mural.

20

Art

# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

How to make with friends all over the world

Message

The theme we want to present to the world including the way we make friends all over theworld. By introduce the goods in our country and the way we treat people. Taiwan is a
hospitable country, you will feel happy and full when you visit Taiwan.

United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
The students learned the things in common anddifferent between the cultures of Japan and Taiwan.
They spent lots of time making the survey research
to analysis the most representative features of ourhometown, and put the features into our mural.
During this process, they also learned how tocooperate smoothly.

Points for further improvement
It was a little difficult to communicate in English. The
theme we discussed at first is hard to research andimmagination,but we found our common after thefirst skype meeting,.
We believe we’ll do it better next time.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachersIt’s not often to have the opportunity to do To cooperate with teachers abroad is excited.
international cooperative learning in our school, so Before, we knew the beautiful Scenery spot andthe students expressing positivity. They’ve learned delicious food of Japan, but now we know more about
how to communicate with students abroad, and care the education and culture of Japan. It’s a fresh andwhat’s happening in the world more often.
interesting experience.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research onthe theme

UNITE
United essage/
Mural design

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

AugSepOct

NovDecJanFeb

What you did
We introduced ourselvesand got know each otherwell.
We've talked about ourtheme a little.

Your students attitude/reflection
Students were excited to introduce
themselves by the video reference, andthey really wanted to make somefriends abroad.

Subject

We discussed about thetheme.
We've done our survey toget the information aboutthe theme.

Students were interested to find outthe things in common and different
between cultures of Japan and Taiwan.
Language
Students were focused on making theResearch
survey report in English, and they feelabilitysatisfied to post reports on the forum.

We've exchanged our ideas
about the theme of mural,and shared the sketch on
the forum

Students showed the positivity indiscussing and uniting the ideas of Language
mural.
CultureThey were happy to see their concepts
Socialcombine perfectly with students abroad.
etiquette

We painted the mural.
During the painting process,we brought some new year
cards and gifts which ismade by ourself to Japan.

Students worked really hard during theprocess of painting, and they enjoyeddrawing so much.

We held an exhibition in ourschool to show our result.
Except the exhibition,
We skype twice withJapan(share our feelingwhen finish the mural,appreciation.)

Students felt really proud and excited
to present the mural in front of all thestudents, teachers and parents. They
had the sense of achievement about Language
their work.
CultureArtCulture
LanguageArt# 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

Scenes / points teachers felt the effects

Understanding yourown cultures

5

Join the IIME and research with my students makes me learn more about
my culture.

Understanding yourpartner's cultures

5

Our partner school share a lots of things to us!
Going to Japan also makes us have more culture experiences.

Information literacy(research, share)

Communication ability(interactive exchange)

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Active learningand action
Collaboration(in the class, with partners)

Expression ability(in words, in pictures)

5

4

3

I am not sure we have enough critical thinking.

5

Through this project, we learned not only painting, Japanese, research,and our hometown.

5

We use LINE and cbnotes to communicate with Japan immediately,
and it also help us to know each other more by picture.

4

Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

During we are making research, we not only search on the internet ,we also visited the landmark and interact with different people
around our school.
I think we communicate very smoothly with various methods.
(Language teacher, Line, Skype, forum, cbnotes, translate app.)

5

I think we have done it good already
We love teachers and students in Mutsumihokubu very much!
We cherish every opportunity to communicate because every
communication is full.