2016 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ Taiwan ]School [ Taipei Municipal Ying-Qiao Elementary School ] Teacher [ Yen-Chun, Lin ] ｆGrade ( 3.4.5.6 )Member ( 12 )JP school [ Une Elementary School ] Teacher [ Yuya Ezaki ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
CultureResearch ability
Art

Hours

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

12How to make a questionnaire, statistic and analysis of data, composed a report.

20To know and practice the skills of painting, drawing the mural18# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

The good thing of our country

Message

The theme we want to present to the world including animals or plants unique to Taiwanand Japan, and other things such as landmarks, nature scene, food or traditional
costumes.

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

Points for further improvement
It was the first time to join the IIME
project. It was a little difficult to arrange
the schedule and curriculum to us, but
the fruit was great. We believe we’ll doit 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 It’s new to us to cooperate with teachers abroad,international cooperative learning in our school, so too. 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 the education and culture of Japan. It’s a fresh andcared what’s happening in the world more often.
interesting experience.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

UNITE
United message/

AugSep

Oct

Nov

Mural design

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

DecJanWhat you did
We introduced ourselves andgot know each other well.
We've talked about ourtheme a little.
We discussed about thetheme, which is" share thegood thing of our country tothe world."
We've done our survey byquestionnaire to get theinformation about the theme.
We've exchanged our ideas
about the theme of mural,and shared the sketch on
the forum.
We painted the mural. During
the painting process, wesent the Xmas card and giftto each other.

Your students attitude/reflection
Students were excited to introduce
themselves by the video reference, andthey really wanted to make some friends
abroad.
Students were interested to find out thethings in common and different between
cultures of Japan and Taiwan.
Students were focused on making thesurvey report in English, and they feelsatisfied to post reports on the forum.

We held an exhibition in ourschool to show our result.
Everyone who saw the mural
was very impressive about
our cooperation work.

Students felt really proud and excited topresent the mural in front of all thestudents, teachers and parents. They
had the sense of achievement about
their work.

Students showed the positivity indiscussing and uniting the ideas of mural.
They were happy to see their concepts
combine perfectly with students abroad.
Students worked really hard during theprocess of painting, and they enjoyeddrawing so much.

Subject
EnglishEnglishResearch ability

EnglishCultureArt

EnglishCultureArt# 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 own
culturesUnderstanding theother’s cultures
Communication ability
in the class/with partners

IT skills
Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Collaborationin the class/with partners

Attitude in learning
Expression ability
in words, in pictures

AimResultA

5A

4A

4B

4A

4A

4B

5B

5B

4

Appreciation ability
Appreciate the mural and thewhole collaborative learning

How your students have reached it
The students did the survey research by questionnaire andinternet.
They learned the other’s cultures by handout from teachers andthe brief reports on the forum from students in Japan.
Sometimes they are impatient to listen other’s thought, butgenerally speaking, they do the communication well.
They learned how to make a short film and how to statistic andanalysis of data by computer.
They make a good friendship through creating and exchanging
Xmas cards and presents.
Sometimes they have different opinions on how to draw themural, but they did a good teamwork.
The students were enthusiasm and positive during the process
all the time.
They are getting better to express the ideas by their own self.
They are getting better to appreciate different ideas between
each other, and they can reflected their activities to appreciate
what they’ve learned.