2012 IIME REPORTCountry [ Tunisia]
School [ Association Tunisienne d’ Aide aux Sourds(ATAS)]
Teacher [ Misato Azuma ] grade ( 6-18 years old ) student number ( 40 )JP School [ Shirahata elementary school ] Teacher [ Hiroyuki Tamura ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lessonart
Enjoying drawing
othersExchange cultures between Japan and Tunisia

Times
1210

# Theme and Message of the mural
The bridge of rainbow between Japan and Tunisia
ThemeMessage《To exchange cultures and to recognize mutually for the world peace.》By exchanging good parts of each country, we try to make better world together.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
Students could enjoy drawing with Japanese students.
We had difficulties in communication, sometimes I
They got to be interested in Japanese culture and also couldn’t understand my student’s sign language andrethink about Tunisian culture by themselves.
Arabic of my colleagues.

# Have you made your activity open in your school or in your local area? How was their reaction or reputation?

PR you did inside/out of your school
InsideWe made a mural with all students in our school.
OutWe put our pictures of activity on HP..
The embassy of Japan put our picture to Tunisiannewspaper.

Reaction/reputation from around
When parents of students come to our school, we
showed our activity.
And they were glad to see the photo of newspaper.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonth

What you did
We made introduction cards inevery class.

Your students attitude/reflection
They were looking forward to sending theircards to Japan.

SubjectArtclass

They felt the difference between Japan andTunis.

others10

We tried to questions fromJapanese students and sametime we thought about Tunisiantraditional cultures.

10~11

We chose famous places in
Tunisia and Tunisian traditional
costume that we would draw.

Tunisia has many famous places forsightseeing, so they felt proud of theircountry,

Art
class

We used the time of art classand free time.
Every student took part inpainting.

They were so glad to see the mural fromJapan first time.
And they looked so happy to paint day by day.

Artclass

We did Skype conversation.

They had a great experience to talk by Skype.
Because it was first time for them to talk andsee faces with Japanese Students over thetime difference.

othersIntroduction

9ResearchComposition

Painting

12~1

Appreciation

2~3# Aim of the Lessons and Result
AimRankMark

understanding
our own cultures

25 4 ○
3 2 1

Understanding
the other cultures

35 4 ○
3 2 1

communication ability

5 4 3 2 ○1interactively / in English

IT skills

5 4 3 2 ○1forum / video conference

Creating friendshipin the class / with partners

Collaborationin the class / with partners

Appreciation ability
reading the painting

We had a problem at this point, Students talks in sign
language and teachers translated it to Arabic. It wasdifficult.
We didn’t have enough equipment of Internet to allstudents. So when we use the computer, it must be done
by a few students.
They could enjoy painting each other.

5 ○4

15 4 3 2 1 They took part in painting with each roles.
○positive attitude in learningin painting

They tried to understand to see the half of mural, andintroduction cards from Japan.

4Keeping motivation highExpression ability

How your students have reached it
To paint good parts of Tunisia, we looked for them.

53 2 1Students painted depend on their ages and skills.

5 4 3 ○
2 1

It was better to talk in Skype earlier period, because it
made them so excited.

5 ○43 2 1

They discussed each other to make a mural better.(Forexample about colors and how to paint)

5 4

3 ○
2 1

They should have been written down their feelings to see
the completed mural.