School Health Development Project for All Cambodian ChildrenNewsletterVol. 11Issued date: 01 June, 2023

11th School Health Training
The 11th School Health Training was held from 21stto 22nd March at Himawari Hotel in Phnom Penh.
Participants were School Health Lecturer at PTECand BTEC, Director and Deputy Director at PTEC andBTEC, also, Deputy Director and 2 members from theSchool Health Department of Ministry of Education,
Youth and Sport (MoEYS). In a slight difference fromthe usual training, we invited guest lecturers fromtwo institutions to give lectures to our School Healthlecturers this time.

Attractive Poster Making
In day 1 activity (21st March), we invited 1
lecturer and 2 instructors from Social Compass,which is an artistic creators company, to lead a
training on how to make attractive posters.
The reason for this program is that posters
displayed in Health Room at school are very
effective in teaching children about health. We
learned how to make them by cutting and pasting
the size and position of the title and the overalldesign.

After deciding what words to include in the poster, the letters were made and cut out. Next, draw
a picture. The picture can be drawn on a separate piece of paper and then cut out and pasted on.
Once the poster creation is done, each group explained to the participants about theirmasterpieces. All participants enjoyed making posters using a method they had never made before.
We hope School Health lecturers would share this skill with their student teachers in School
Health class at TEC.

Copyright law in Cambodia
In day 2 activity (22nd March), we invited Mr. Sakano Issei from Ministry of Justice as a lecturer
about copyright law in Cambodia. Why is copyright important? In universities and othereducational institutions, copyright is involved in writing papers, publishing books, etc. For School
Health lecturers, copyright is also a familiar issue, for example, whether it is permissible to use
images and illustrations from the internet when making documents such as PowerPointpresentations.

Mr. Sakano gave an easy-to-understand explanation, citing actual cases. The lecture wasextended due to the many questions from the participants, but it was clear that this was a topicof great interest to the instructors.

School Health Textbook for TEC has been completed!
School Health Textbook for TEC in Khmer language version hasbeen completed.
From Japanese to English is fine, but from English to Khmer, we
had to say, “There is no such word in Khmer!”. In a country where
health terminology is extremely rare, we were trying to produce a
School Health textbook of over 300 pages. We would like to admire
our Cambodian staffs and the 17 School Health lecturers at PTEC
and BTEC for the proofreading, page by page until the end.

Contributed the textbook to all of Year
4 student teachers at PTEC and BTECJapanesedraftEnglish
published

Khmer
Published

2021

2022

2023

English version School
Health Textbook

All colored printed book withillustration and diagram

Why are lesson studies important now? vol.2

ASAKURA Takashi

Why does this project conduct lesson study in Cambodia?
Dr. Asakura will share his opinions.
Dr. Asakura explained about the importance of lesson studies in News Letter Vol.10.
Continued from previous issue.

This is because the subjects of school healthand health education are new subjects and there are
no teaching specialists in Cambodia. In addition,school health and health education aims at acquiringpractical knowledge, and at the same time, itteaches social health issues that should be tackled
collaboratively not only by children but also byadults, including teachers. School health and healtheducation is a new holistic, whole-society
educational practice for creating better, healthierways of living, and for creating healthier schools,
local communities, societies, and nations.
For this purpose, it is necessary to acquire
the habit of reconsidering the view of students, theview of education, the concept of teaching
methods, the creation of teaching materials,
methods of evaluation, and the significance ofquestioning, in line with the essential purpose ofschool health and health education. To fulfill ourresponsibilities as professional teachers, we need toconduct research through lesson study. To improve
the quality of education in Cambodia, it is essential
to strengthen the competence of teachers at thetwo Teacher Education Colleges, which will serve asmodels for teachers throughout the country. In thisproject, we would like to challenge ourselves todevelop a lesson study appropriate for Cambodia,
taking into account the social and school culture ofCambodia, through the creation of school healthtextbooks and lessons.
Above all, I hope teachers should be people who love to learn and teach new things, andwho learn and grow together with children. Because the knowledge, information, and values ofhealth are constantly changing. “New wine must be put into new leather bags. (Luke 5:36-38,New Testament)” “If we can change something, let us have the courage to change it.”First, let us move forward together, slowly, one step at a time.

Official launching ceremony of School Health
Textbook for Teacher Education College
On 24 March 2023, School
Health for All Cambodian Children
project and the team from Tokyo
Gakugei University, supported byThe Nippon Foundation, handed
over the School Health textbook tothe Ministry of Education, Youthand Sport and PTEC and BTEC after
three years of work.
On April, the textbooks were in
the hands of student teachers whowill become Primary School
teachers at PTEC and BTEC in thenear future.
(From left side) Mr. Ohno Akihiro, Deputy manager ofInternational Division of Tokyo Gakugei University / Dr.
Asakura Takashi, professor emeritus of Tokyo Gakugei
University / Mr. Mori Yuji, Executive Director of The Nippon
Foundation / H.E. Ms. Kim Sethany, Secretary of States forthe MoEYS / H.E.Dr. Set Seng, Director of PTEC / H.E.Mr. BinChhom, Director of BTEC, H.E Dr. Soeur Socheata, Under
Secretary of State for MoEYS, H.E.Dr. Chhay Kim Sotheavy,
Director of School Health Department of MoEYS

Certificates were handed to each of the 17 School Health lecturers at PTEC and BTEC.
They are working as Cambodia's first School Health lecturers.
We can see the movie of the ceremony
from the link ↓https://fb.watch/kQ5RDdfu-z/or QR code.
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