EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM & PRACTICE IN JAPAN

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	Around the blackboard: These are pictures of the blackboard in front of class and around the blackboard. The date and the names of students who have duties on that day are written at the bottom right corner of the blackboard and are updated daily (2). Posters of monthly goals, the slogan of the class (1), time schedule (1), the names of students in charge of retrieving and serving lunch from the kitchen, and the lunch menu are posted on the right side of the blackboard (4), these are ways to communicate with the students. Cards for a morning meeting (1)(3), the meeting at the end of the day, and the names of the students who have duties on that day enable students to know what their roles are for the day. The posters around the blackboard are mainly about what students need to do in their daily school life, and what the teachers want to let the students know, and therefore the space is used more as a bulletin boardas compared with other spaces in the classroom. It is also one of students cooperative responsibilities to make notice, to make notices, posters and attach these to the blackboard.