2016 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ Uganda ]School [ Iganga Secondary School ] Teacher [ Merikol Patrick, Aya Nakabayashi ] Grade (S3) Member (80)
JP school [ Kaisei Gakuin High School ] Teacher [ Eisaku Ichikawa ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
CultureArt

Hours

learning and understanding own culture

4

expression with Art

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

Let’s cooperate to achieve sustainable developmental goals.
Students had felt that Asian person is the people who live in a faraway place.
Through communication with partner students they felt familiar with them. They cameto be the partner to cooperate. The student of each country has their different sense ofvalues. Our message is to indicate the possibility of cooperation that is started to receiveand respect sense of foreigners.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gainedStudents experienced the technology through theweb communication. They promoted the mutual
understanding.
They learned the practical art skill using coloringmaterials.

Points for further improvement
It was the first time to paint for students. So senior
students and teachers helped them so muchbecause they feared some mistakes. But they might
do it more by themselves.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Students learned Japanese culture and language Teachers were interested in communicating withactively. They tried to communicate with Japanese foreign school. They learned the technology likeschool students so much and think about the communication on the web and editing movie.
communication with them spontaneously.

# Flow of the ActivityContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHAREResearch onthe theme

UNITE
United message/SepOct

Oct

What you did
Your students attitude/reflection
Students
create Students looked happy and excited tointroduction cards to our create the introduction cards.
partner.
Students learn local culture
and draw the small aspectsof Uganda.

Students enjoyed the expression of ownculture. They were interested inJapanese culture.

Students communicate withour partner on Skype.

Students were really excitedcommunicate with them on Skype.

Each student draws themural design. After that they
paint the mural.

Students learned how to paint with all
their might.

Students make message
cards for our partner.

They made message cards with all theirlove.

SubjectArtCulture

toArt

Mural design

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

FebFebArtArt# 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

AimResult

Understanding our owncultures

A5

How your students have reached it
The students researched them from the books.
They expressed their learning with their style.

Understanding theother’s cultures

A

5The students learned the Japanese culture and enriched theirunderstanding about Japan..

B

4

Sometimes they were too excited but they communicated withpartner very well.

A

5

They learned online communication. Then some students got toedit movie.

A

5

They have made a good friendship through creating message
card, introduction card and video conference.

B

4

They worked cooperatively. But it was rare studying sosometimes they had fight.

A5A

5Communication 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

They were active for all process.
Especially in pictures they expressed their ability very well.