2016 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ Kyrgyzstan ]School[ Education Center for Children ] Teacher [ Ai Yamashita ] Grade ( 5-11 ) Member ( 20 )JP school [ Hamamatsu Gakuin Junior High School ] Teacher [ Mr. Shodai Suzuki ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson

Hours

Japanese

Let’s introduce ourselves in Japanese! (Make self-introduction in Japanese)

4

Japanese

Let’s introduce our country to our partner! (Painting Kyrgyz tradition)

4

Japanese

Let’s get to interact with our partner! (Skype Interaction with partner)

2# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeMessage
United thoughts toshare with the world

The Friendship between Kyrgyzstan and Japan.
Kyrgyz and Japanese had been originally one people.
Then some of them, who liked to eat fish, moved to the island surrounded by ocean, andthey got to become so-called Japanese, today. Others, who liked to eat meats, stayed
their original land, and got to become so-called Kyrgyz, today.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
They happened to know that there can be differences
between one culture and another one, and theyexperienced and learned to accept those differences.
They became more interested in interacting withpeople from foreign background especially throughskype and getting letters from our partner.

Points for further improvement
I wanted my students to learn some leaderships andtime-management skills by managing this project bythemselves, but I couldn’t prepare for letting themlearn that.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
One of my students really liked one letter, written by By the case of the student in the left blank I was
one girl from our partner school. So, the day of skype really surprised and happened to know what is to beexchange, she came really motivated and asked me the purpose and the motivation of learning language
how to find the girl of letter in Japanese.
for the students.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonth
MEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

UNITE
United message/

Sep.
Oct.

Oct.
Nov.
Dec.

Dec.

Mural design

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

Feb.

Mar.

What you did
Studentswrote
self-introducing letters and
they
also
madeself
introducing
speechinJapanese.
Students painted something
traditional in Kyrgyzstan, andthey explained about thepicture in Japanese.
We made Skype interaction.
I talked with my partner, Mr.
Suzuki, and decided ourtheme and message byemail.
The students and anotherteacher
designed
thepainting, and completed it.
We made Skype interaction.
I prepared for sending theparcel to Japan.
I received email that
informing the arrival of theparcel, and let my students
know it.

Your students attitude/reflection
At this time, they didn’t understand the
project very well, and their interests
were not so high, but they did their best.
They tried to find what the Kyrgyz
traditions are and to describe theirtraditions well.

SubjectJapaneseJapanese

We didn’t have the mural design.
JapaneseThe drawing teacher took leadership, sothe students did what he said. But they
were very excited when completing thepainting and writing signature on theback of the painting.
They also were very motivated for theinteraction through skype.
My students got relieved by hearing thearrival of our parcel at our partner
school.

JapaneseJapanese# 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

Collaborationin the class/with partners

Attitude in learning
Expression ability
in words, in pictures

AimResultA4A4A

4C

1A

4A

2A

3B

3B

2

Appreciation ability
Appreciate the mural and thewhole collaborative learning

How your students have reached it
They considered and learned what their own culture is and how
they should tell it effectively
For example, the color of the sun is yellow in Kyrgyzstan and redin Japan. By noticing these things, they got to understand thedifference of other culture or other people’s views.
Some of them were very motivated to communicate with thepartner students on skype, especially.
The students here don’t have their environment that is internet
available, so we didn’t focus on IT skills at all.
The students tried so hard to sing a Japanese song and to makefriendship on the skype interaction.
We don’t have much time to collaborate with the partner and in
the class, because we had to complete on schedule.
They tried hard and interested.
The drawing teacher taught the students how to draw, and thestudents learned it.
We didn’t have the opportunity of appreciation, yet.