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Yumiko ONO Naruto University of Education Tokushima, Japan

Learning from Each Other: Reflecting on Educational Cooperation from Individual and Institutional Perspectives. Yumiko ONO Naruto University of Education Tokushima, Japan. Individual Experience.

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Yumiko ONO Naruto University of Education Tokushima, Japan

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  1. Learning from Each Other: Reflecting on Educational Cooperation from Individual and Institutional Perspectives Yumiko ONO Naruto University of Education Tokushima, Japan

  2. Individual Experience • Worked as a short term expert in Mpumalanga Secondary Science Initiative in South Africa from 1999-2006 • Working as a short term expert in Strengthening Teacher Education Project in Afghanistan from 2005

  3. Institutional Experience • Accept JICA long term trainees in math and science education • Provide short term training in math and science for South Africa, Laos, South Pacific Islands, Middle-east countries, Afghanistan • Accept visiting researchers from Africa and conduct collaborative research project

  4. Teacher Education and Educational Cooperation • What is the unique contribution of Teacher Education Institutions in Ed Cooperation? • How individual/institutional experience in Ed Cooperation contribute to teacher education?

  5. Teachers as Key to Success • Teacher Professional Development as Priority Agenda across countries • Better Teachers, Better Teaching • NUE focuses on improving teaching at classroom level

  6. Promising strategies to improve quality of teachers and teaching • Lesson Study as School-based Professional Development of Teachers • Designated Schools for Research and Development • Appointing principles with rich teaching experience

  7. What Faculty Members Have Learnt: • “I fundamentally reviewed one-way lecture style of mine, and try to make a class more participatory, where students are encouraged to share their own opinions” • Flexible response to the needs, Planning workshops, respect for the trainees

  8. What Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers at NUE have Learnt: • Reassurance of Good aspects of Japanese education • Reassurance of Importance of Education • Good chance to reflect on my own teaching

  9. What Staff Have Learnt: • Too many to mention…. • Swim or sink in troubled intercultural sea?

  10. What I have learnt: • Teachers/Trainees as Adult Learners • Teacher Educators as Adult Educators • My task as adult educator is how to assist or facilitate transformative learning

  11. Teacher Education Institutions can make unique contributions: • Enriching and Expanding Knowledge Base • Human Resource Development through collaborative research • Professional development of Japanese classroom teachers

  12. Africa and Asia Networking? • Lesson Study in Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam • What were the challenges to introduce Lesson Study? • How did they deal with the challenges? • How Lesson Study improved teaching?

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