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SGH Summary Report 2014-2015 SGH Summary Report 2014-2015 Saitama Prefectural Urawa High School Saitama Prefectural Urawa High School Designated Year 2014 SGH Summary Report (2014 - 2015) Printed: March, 2016 Editor: the Research and Development committee of SGH at Urawa High School Cooperation: Scott Aikin, Kai Osawa Publisher: Saitama Prefectural Urawa High School Principal: Takeshi Sugiyama Address: Ryoke 5 - 3 - 3, Urawa-ku, Saitama City, Saitama, 330 - 9330, Japan Tel: 048 (886) 3000 Fax: 048 (885) 4647 Preface Urawa Prefectural High School was designated as a Super Global High school in 2014. In this report, we have put together a record of activities from the past two years. We applied for SGH for the following reasons. First, we aim to equip Urawa High School students to become global leaders. Students should always try to overcome the difficulties they face. With this in mind I want our students, who are expected to play an important role in the world, to strengthen themselves by nurturing more global views and interacting with various kinds of people. Second, we want to share our approach to education with the world. There are 56 high schools designated as SGHs in Japan, and we want to share our approach with these other schools. Also, the designation as an SGH has increased the number of visitors to our school. I believe transmitting the approach of our school’s all-around education to others will have a positive effect on the future direction of education in Japan. Third, I think being an SGH will augment the education of our school. If you already think that your education is satisfactory, there is little room for improvement. From now on, by receiving feedback from other SGH schools, we will be able to enhance the education of Urawa High School. In the last two years, SGH activities have already elevated Urawa High School’s potential in two main areas, the research in our advisory groups and international exchanges. I am proud that our students, faculty, parents and the alumni association are working together to passionately build and promote the education at our school. I sincerely hope that our SGH program will help produce more and more global leaders who will positively influence the world wherever they are through innovation and compassion. Takeshi Sugiyama Principal Contents Report 1 Advisory Groups………………………………………….1 Fiscal 2014 Main Activities…………………………………………………………………….2 Fiscal 2015 Main Activities…………………………………………………………………….4 School Year 2015 List of Advisory Groups………………………………………….6 School Year 2015 Syllabi of Advisory Groups…………………………………..17 Beneficial Energy Integration for Humans…………………………………….17 Experiencing the World of Go………………………………………………………18 Forming a Global Problem-Solving Network………………………………. 19 Japanese Archery with Foreign Exchange Students……………………...20 Minorities………………………………………………………………………………………21 Not Depending on, but Taking Advantage of IT…………………………..22 Parasports……………………………………………………………………………………..23 Preventing Children from Getting Involved in Cyber-Crimes………..24 What is Open-Mindedness?............................................................................25 Annual SGH Summary Report Leaflet…………………………………………….26 Brief Introduction to Urako’s SGH Programme……………………………..28 Sharing Japanese Intrinsic Values through Japanese Archery……….33 What I learned from my experience abroad………………………………….35 Preventing Children from Getting Involved in Cyber-Crimes………..37 Problems of IT Dependence We Face……………………………………………39 What is Open-mindedness?..............................................................................41 Think from Para-Sports………………………………………………………………….43 Power Problems in Japan………………………………………………………………46 School Year 2015 Mid-term Report of SGH…………………………………………52 Forming a Global Problem-Solving Network…………………………………53 Should Japan accept immigrants?...........................................................................55 Report 2 Foreign Exchange……………………………………….59 Reports by the group which went GB as an SGH in school year 2014……….60 Conditions for Railway Development…………………………………………60 The Future of Railroads………………………………………………………………69 Future of Railway Exports of Japan…………………………………………….73 Achievements of English Debate in Relation with Global Issues……….78 Tom’s Tales………………………………………………………………………………………..95 Report 3 Reiwa Seminars…………………………………………103 Summary of Activities……………………………………………..……115 Super Global High School Programme…………………………………………116 Super Global High school News…………………………………………………...118 Reports and Plans of SGH (International Exchange)……………….……..120 The Schedule of Integrated Study for Year 2 ………………………………...124 New Ideas for Advisory Groups as a SGH………………………………………..26 Minutes from the 5th SGH Committee meeting………………………………28 Management and Guidance Committee………………………………………130 School Year 2014 Notes of First Meeting………………………………130 School Year 2014 Report of Second Meeting………………………..133 School Year 2015 Notes of First meeting………………………………138 Overview of conceptual plans of SGH……………………………………………..140 Report 1 Advisory Groups Our SGH program has started with project studies in integrated study (SGH Seminars) and foreign exchange with our sister school as the two main parts. Project studies in integrated study have a prior history of over 15 years since they started as advisory groups in 2000. Every second-year student is enrolled in one of the 40 unique courses, with their own unique focus, doing research, and writing a final paper about the course’s theme proposed by the instructor. Even before being designated as an SGH, there were various types of courses and numerous researches were conducted. Thanks to the SGH program, our advisory groups have been able to address more and more social and global issues in line with our core themes of “Enrichment of Society”, “Sustaining a Global Environment”, and “Universal Values of Humanity”. In this report, you can learn the main activities in 2014 and 2015, see a list of the Advisory Groups in 2015 and some of their syllabi, browse the contents of the presentations in the summary report at the Fukutake Learning Theater of the University of Tokyo (the same as its distributed leaflet), and read the summary of the mid-term report in September, 2015. You can also read the report “Should Japan accept immigrants?” from “the Collected Papers of SGH Seminar 2014” as one of the example of our students’ works. The videos of the summary report at the Fukutake Learning Theater will be available on our school website from the end of this April. 1 Fiscal 2014 Main Activities of Saitama Prefectural Urawa High School SGH 4/9 Wed. Guidance on integrated study 4/16 Wed. Guidance on Advisory Groups 4/30 Wed. Advisory Groups 1 5/14 Wed. Advisory Groups 2 5/26 Mon. Reiwa Seminar "A Vocalist who Sings Abroad" (Chikusa Tomita：a baritone singer) 6/4 Wed. Advisory Groups 3 6/18 Wed. Advisory Groups 4 Advisory Groups 5 6/25 Wed. Reiwa Seminar "Brain Surgery and Brain Chemistry" (Hiroyuki Kamiguchi：RIKEN) 7/2 Wed. Visit to The University of Tokyo 7/7 Mon. Summer School Program at University of Michigan (～July 18) 7/8 Tue. Seminar on developing global human resources (Naoya Okamoto：Cambridge) 7/10 Thu. The Boeing Higher Education Program (Developing English presentation skills) 7/11 Fri. Advisory Groups 6 The Boeing Higher Education Program 7/23 Wed. (Presentation, cross-cultural communication ) 7/25 Fri. Basic lecture class on English Debate 7/27 Sun. Aspen Classics Seminars (～Aug. 2) three times The principal visits Whitgift(～August 29) 8/25 Mon. SGH Joint meeting(University of London・University of Cambridge・Whitgift School) English Assistant Mr. Siam visits Urawa H. S. (～Sep. 26) 9/1 Mon. Forign student Mr. Sergej visits Urawa H. S.(～present) Steering and Orientation Committee 9/10 Wed. Advisory Groups 7 9/13 Sat. School Festival, Whitgift School photo exhibition (～Sep.14) 9/24 Wed. Seminar for students sent to Whitgift School 1 9/29 Mon, Reiwa Seminar "Listen Your Heart" (Mitsuru Murai：the chairman of J.League ) 10/1 Wed. Advisory Groups 8 Education minister of Queensland, Australia visits Urawa H. S. 10/7 Tue. (Lecture meeting・questions and answers) 10/8 Wed. Guidance on Advisory Groups (the second term) 10/17 Fri. Short-term foreign students comes from Whitgift School (～Oct. 25) 10/21 Tue. Lecture about deciding one's future (Atsushi Amano：Prof. atJuntendo Univ.) 2 10/22 Wed. Advisory Groups 1 10/27 Mon. Reiwa Seminar "Who is in Great Demand? (Minoru Nakazato：University of Tokyo) 10/29 Wed. Advisory Groups 2 11/1 Sat. Prefectural tournament of English debate (thrid place) 11/6 Thu. Seminar for students going to Whitgift School (part 2) 11/17 Mon. Asahi Lecture by the Univ. of Tokyo "Ages of Environmental Governance" (Jin Sato) 11/19 Wed. Advisory Groups 3 Advisory Groups 4 Lecture by the Univ. of Tokyo "Medical Ethics"(Prof. Kazuo Yamamoto) SGH Seminar "Invitation to Glycobiology"(Mr. Yamamoto) 11/26 Wed. Reiwa Seminar "Seeking after the Dark Mater in Space" (Shingo Kazama：High Energy Accelerator Research Organization ) The workshop on parliamentary debate ( Tomohiro Nakagawa) Advisory Groups 5 12/3 Wed. Lecture by the Univ. of Tokyo "Are there aliens?" (Kentaro Nakamura) 12/4 Thu. Selection of students who would attend Whitgift School for one year 12/12 Fri. The Univ. of Tokyo: PEAK foreign students' session Participation in the All Japan High School English Debate Tournament (-Dec.14) 12/13 Sat. Exchange meeting of parliamentary debate with metropolitan high schools Embassdor Kennedy visits Urawa H. S. (Speech・Discussion) 12/15 Mon. Asahi Lecture by the Univ. of Tokyo "Bringing
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