2014 IIME REPORTCountry [ Lithuania ]School[ Silavotas basic school ] Teacher [ Laimute Cepulinskiene ] grade (8-10 ) student number (10 )JP School [ Higashi-Atago Junior High School ] Teacher [ Takefumi Ohtsuka ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
EnglishTimes

Introduce, ask and answer questions

15Art

Draw a mural

10ICT

Use the online forum

10# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

World Heritage and traditional sports.

MessageWe learnt about Japanese and Lithuanian world heritage and introduced each otherpopular sporst in our countries.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
The students had a very good experience to know
better such an exotic country, to learn about its
culture, traditions, the students` life at school. It
was really fun.

Points for further improvement
It was the first time for us to participate in such kindof a project and it wasn`t very easy for our students.
They were not used of painting on a such hugecanvas.

# How has your impression toward your partner country and/or the world changed?
Change in student’s impressionChange in teacher’s impression
The students realized that Japanese are very The teacher liked the way your students
friendly and hard-working people.
communicated, the level of their knowledge and theway of painting. Our students can`t draw so nicely as
yours.

# Flow of the Activity our students
ContentMonth
What you did
The students introduced
Sept.
themselves, their school andIntroduction
local area on the forum.
The students tried to findout about the partnercountry, made a poster ofOct.
Researchboth countries, watched anddiscussed the examples ofthe murals.
Our students discussed
about the theme and theNov.mural design patterns andCompositionDec.
wrote about it to theJapanese students.
Our students painted theJan.mural.
Painting
Feb.
Appreciation
Reflection

Feb.

We presented the mural to
our school community, wewrote about the project inour school and local
newspapers.

Your students attitude/reflection
The students were curious to read theintroduction about the students frompartner school.
We tried to find out more information
about the theme Japanese students
offered to take.

Subject
EnglishEnglish,Lithuanian

They were a bit shocked with thesuggestion of the partner school but
decided to accept their idea.

They were very active and worked as ateam. It was so exciting to watch thempainting.
The students were so proud ofparticipating in this project. They werea great team and had a sense ofachievement.

Fine art

Fine art,
LithuanianEnglish,Lithuanian# 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 own
cultures
Understanding theother’s cultures

How your students have reached it
We did a research on the Internet,

AimResultA

5

B

4

B

4

They had such a good possibility to know about each other but
they didn`t take the opportunity of this project to do that.

C

3

They need more practice, we couldn`t organize a videoconference.

B4A

5

They could find a solution in making this project. They worked asa team together.

Attitude in learning

B

4

They tried to be positive but sometimes they were not very
active.

Expression ability

B4

Appreciation ability

A5Communication ability
in the class/with partners

IT skills
Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Collaborationin the class/with partners

Students wrote and answered questions on the forum.

They didn`t show interest in making friends with each other.

They were too shy to express their ideas.
They were very proud of taking part in this project and tried topresent their work to the school community.