2017 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ Zimbabwe ]School[ Helena Primary School ] Teacher [ Sipiwe Manyerenyere ] Grade ( 2 )JP school [ Mutsumihokubu Elementary School ] Teacher [ Yasuko Sugiyama ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Art and crafts

Creativity and expression through Art

Social Studies

Cultures in the world, tolerance and acceptanceComputers

ICT Skills

Member ( )Hours# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeMessage
United thoughts toshare with the world

The Things around us
The message was to give the children the chance to see the different things that children
their age, but in a different part of the world have different, but also in common with them.
Both schools shared about what they eat, what grocery stores they buy their food from,and what activities they do at school.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
They gained an appreciation of how similar theactivities that their partner school has with theirs,
both children enjoy dance, music and agriculture. Thiswas eye opening for our class.

Points for further improvement
We definitely need to improve our communication
with our partner school. We missed a number ofscheduled tasks and our staff member who wasresponsible for the mural in the past left the school,
so we were still trying to learn how it works and work
it into our schedules with the children.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Students feel they have more in common with the Being the first time that this set of staff directed thechildren from their partner school, all the way away in program, they feel challenged to improve theirJapan, than they thought.
interaction. One teacher said, “I actually am
becoming friends with Atsuko”, almost shocked that
it was possible.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

Sept

SHARE

Sept,
Oct

Research on
the theme

UNITE
United message/

Mural design

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

Oct,
Nov

What you did
We had a skype call with theteachers and a few of thestudents.
They researched Japan as aregion,
thelanguages
spoken, the food they eat.
We received a video fromour partner school with thefood they ate, and picturesof the students in thegarden.

Your students attitude/reflection
When the teachers at our partner school
first saw us and the children, their faces
just lit up and smiled. Our students
commented on how they felt accepted.
They found the information they learned
about Japan very interesting.
Our students then sent a video of themcooking their traditional meal, “sadza”, andshowed the children their traditional dance.
The children from Japan responded with a
traditional Japanese dance of their own.

Jan Feb

We received the Mural inJanuary. We brainstormed all
the activities we do at schoolthat we shared with ourpartner school, and also all
the traditional and modern
food we eat regularly.

The children
process.

March

Once the mural was finished,
we had a skype call between
the teachers, and got thechance to explain everythingthat had been painted byeach side.

The children wanted to share somethingwith their partner school, and so sent a
collage of the painting as a gift and tosay thank you to their new friends. Theysang a song that had been shared with
their partner school.

enjoyedtheSubject
ICT,
SocialStudiesGeoMusicandDance,
SocialStudies

paintingArtArt# Effect and evaluation gained through the collaborative learning
Evaluation: Rank 5 to 1 (5: very effective / 4: effective / 3: so- so / 2: not so effective / 1: not effective at all)

Expected effect
Understanding yourown cultures
Understanding yourpartner's cultures
Information literacy(research, share)

Communication ability(interactive exchange)

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Active learningand action
Collaboration(in the class, with partners)

Expression ability(in words, in pictures)

Evaluation

44223344Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

4Scenes / points teachers felt the effects
The children got the opportunity to think about their own culture andenjoyed sharing and talking about it.
The children gained great insight from their partner on the similarities
and differences in their culture.
This is an area we should improve in the future. We need faster internet
connectivity to that we can have effective skype calls. We also need tolearn how to you the interactive platforms before the next mural starts.
Our current teachers have not been very confident with ICT literacy.
We didn’t do this part very well, and this is an area we will improve infuture.
This was done fairly well. In future the process will be better planed andthe learning objectives slotted into the different subjects offered.
The children were quick to share all they learnt from their partner
schools with their families and friends.
The class teachers from our partner school were a joy to work with.
They were warm and so loving to always talk to us.
It wasn’t always easy to understand each other as English was aproblem. We will also arrange to learn a little basic Japanese as they
progress so we can also try bridge the gap.
A wonderful learning experience, especially of the entire process as it
was the first time for the current teachers now responsible for the mural
have done it.