2015 IIME REPORTCountry [ Thailand ]School [ Plearnpasa Language School ] Teacher [ Somrat Bureerat ] grade ( 5 ) student number (15)Partner [ (JP) Toriya Elementary School ] Teacher [ Takehara Hitomi ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson

Hours

CultureJapanese culture in Thailand

48

Tech

Making video and video conference via skype

48

Art

Design the mural to make harmony

48# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

MessageNature and Culture
Both Tak and Ishikawa share same natural beauty and beautiful culture; water fall, lantern
festival and rice field.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
This year the project becomes more exciting among The quality of webcam
my young student since we arranged the videoconference via skype. Parents also appreciated ouractivities and effort.

# 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 really impressed the way they could This year is another great year for me since ourtalk and see their friends. They are more energic to partner’s teacher is very keen to create
communicate and exchange with Japanese friends.
communication among students.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthIntroduction

ResearchComposition

Painting

Appreciation
Reflection

AugOctDec

JanFebWhat you did
Your students attitude/reflection
Make video introducing Confident to talk about themselves
Thailand and Tak province
as well as students
Research about Ishikawa
and find sth in common
between 2 cities

Exciting to learn about friends via skype

Discuss and vote whatshould be in the mural
obtained from research.

They did very well and could articulate
the research result into concretedrawing.

Divide the color scheme
then added details as sameas other part

They knew how the harmonize thepainting with color scheme.

Set up exhibition in ourschool and make story
telling competition about themural.

It’s kind of fun and show how ourstudents appreciate the mural.

Subject
EnglishCultureArtArtEnglish# 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

B

5

Understanding theother’s cultures

How your students have reached it
They discussed about what Thailand look like in the real worldboth bad and good image.
They discussed about the Japanese culture in Thailand such as
cartoon, food and fashion. Also what actually Japanese are bysearching in Ishikawa Tourism.
One of the problem is our Japanese students are not confident
to present and a bit difficulty in communication.

B4A2

C3

I think it’s first time our students had chance to chatface-to-face with foreign students – it’s exciting!!

B

3

We encouraged both students to communicate and exchange
through varied means such as video, skype, card, and etc.

A

3

The degree of collaboration is moderate due to the age of ourstudents. They could shared but not reach the exchange of idea.

Attitude in learningA

5

My students become energetic to learn more about new friends.
They really love to crate sth and waiting for the feedback.

Expression abilityC3

Due to their limited language skill, they could express idea inshort and easy way.

Appreciation ability

A5Communication ability
in the class/with partners

IT skills
Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Collaborationin the class/with partners

They could make story out of the mural in funny way.