School Health Development Project for All Cambodian ChildrenNewsletterVol. 1３

Issued date: October, 31st, 2023

The 12th School Health Training at Poulo Wai Hotel
The 12th School Health lecturer training was held from19th to 21st June, 2023. On day 1, we conducted a trial
lesson on “Mental health”, by Mr. Mao Veasna, School
Health lecturer from BTEC. His lesson was reallyinteresting using many pictures and examples, so thatparticipants enjoy the class feeling like student
teachers.

Although Phnom Penh Teacher Education
College (PTEC) and Battambang Teacher
Education College (BTEC) are different
institutions, through the trial lesson, we areable to incorporate and improve eachother's good points and work hard to create
better School Health classes.

Teaching material and Teacher’s guide book
We would like to introduce new teaching materials for School Health classcalled “Kamishibai”, a picture story show, which was created by NGO KIZUNA
and supervised by Tokyo Gakugei University and SHCC project. This material
allows teachers to teach some points of each School Health topic simply byreading the script while showing the pictures. Ms. San Sreyry, a School Healthlecturer from PTEC, demonstrated the lesson using Kamishibai.
SHCC project published a Teacher’s guidebook
accompanying the School Health textbook forTEC. The project leader, Dr. Asakura Takashi,
lectured on how to use it. He attended thetraining online from Japan this time, andeveryone was seriously engaged with the screenand learning.
School Health Textbook has 16 chapters andover 300 pages, so it is not easy to teacheverything in class. Therefore, the Teacher’sguidebook explains which parts of thetextbook should be taught in class and whichparts should be assignments for student
teachers.

The 13th School Health Training at BTEC and PTEC
The 13th School Health lecturer training was held from 7th to 10th August (4 days), 2023 inBattambang and Phnom Penh. The main purpose of the training was to conduct School Health
Lesson Study at both Teacher Education Colleges (TECs) in Battambang and Phnom Penh. Thiswas the first time to do Lesson Study on School Health at TECs in Cambodia. Between PhnomPenh⇄ Battambang, we travelled by bus altogether “yes, it was so fun”.

The first Lesson Study in BTEC and PTEC
On 8th August, a School Health lecturer fromBattambang Teacher Education College (BTEC) Mr.
Chan Ra conducted a trial lesson on Chapter 4 of theSchool Health Textbook on “Hygiene and Health”, asan activity of Lesson Study. The lecturer asked manyquestions to student teachers, and they worked ingroups actively.
On 9th August, a lesson on "Growth and development”, Chapter 3 in
the School Health Textbook, was given by Ms. Lok Solinda, School
Health lecturer from Phnom Penh Teacher Education College (PTEC)
Lesson Study. The lecturer applied many handmade teaching materials
to make student teachers understand the contents of the lesson
better. We can see that student teachers enjoyed the lesson andlearned about the difference between growth and development.
After the demonstration class,there was a post-study with allparticipants from BTEC and BTEC
to reflect on their teaching. In
this session, they are very
involved in discussions and have
many thoughts to share.
All participants discussed what was good and what could be improved and how to incorporate
these into their classes. There are many different ways of Lesson Study, and the SHCC aims toenable School Health lecturers to find their way through discussion.

Field Study
The SHCC project conducts regular Field Studies to gain
knowledge about Cambodia's history, culture, economy, andeducation, as well as school health-related issues. One of theobjectives is not only to learn, but also to get to know each otherand to build a better relationship between PTEC and BTEC.

Special Needs Education School in Cambodia
On 10th August, we visit to the National Institute of Special Education (NISE) as a Field Study. We
were given a lecture on teacher training and the development of teaching materials for special
needs education. Afterwards, we visited the school (from kindergarten to high school) for
children who are blind and deaf. There were some lectures at TEC who had received short-term
training at NISE. Thank you NISE for this opportunity.

LyLy Kameda Factory
On 21st June, we took a break from our indoor studies and went on a Field Study tour of LYLY
KAMEDA's factory. The School Health lectures from Teacher Education College of Phnom Penhand Battambang were impressed by the fact that the food is exported to the world from afactory in Cambodia that is certified according to global standards, with thorough food safety
and hygiene management.

SHCC will continue to plan Field Studies to learn more about Cambodia
in terms of health and wellbeing.