Student Activity Trade-Off: JPN & PH Class Collab

By Eryza Mhae Dris

“ This is the first step of the friendship between Jose Rizal University Senior High School and Yamagata Higashi Senior High School. I am looking forward to the next program.” - Mr. Sugai Hidehiko, Principal, Yamgata Higashi Senior High School.

Jose Rizal University Senior High School (JRU-SHS) conducted a collaborative learning activity between Arts and Design Rizalians and the Yamagata Higashi Senior High School Students as part of the Student Learning Network (SLN) project to learn and share photography skills and culture last March 9 via Zoom meeting.

This Japan - Philippine collaborative learning class involved Arts and Design students of JRU SHS, D12A, and Yamagata Higashi Senior High School Students with its Project Coordinator, Mrs. Carissa M. Enteria, Chair of Languages and Social Sciences Department, and the two faculty-in-charge, Mrs. Ramona Christine Gonzales-Matibag, a JRU faculty, and Ms. Krezta Rae Palces, a YHSHS faculty.

Mrs. Matibag formally started her discussion and called two students to do the Art Broadcast - students will present artwork from the Philippines and Japan and give its background and significance. After her photography discussion, she tasked students to do their online collaborative work to present their outputs to the class.

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To recognize this Husay Rizal experience, Mrs. Enteria called Mr. Romel C. Navarro, Principal of JRU SHS, to award the certificates to the partnered school. Ms. Palces also called Mr. Sugai Hidehiko, the Principal of YHSHS, to do the same. Both principals gave their congratulatory and future collaboration messages and thanked everyone who participated in the successful project.

Due to the pandemic, online learning is a trend and later became the mode of learning in the field of education globally. It brought up creative learning strategies that help and sustain teacher-student learning. Distance learning, hybrid and hyflex learning, and remote learning hindered not the progressive learning of students even in challenging times.

The BasicEd’s Student Activity Trade-Off commits to helping students enrich their learning experiences by exchanging student concepts and perspectives of global issues with another school to promote global understanding, a necessary 21st-century skill. This project aims to forge a partnership with schools with common interests, promote mutual understanding between or among students from different cultural backgrounds, and enrich student learning experiences through collaboration.