A Practice of Educational Program to Instruct Collaborative Education in Small Classes of Multiple Schools and Its Effect

Recently, developing human resources with problem-solving skills and communication skills is required in educational institutions. Therefore, collaborative learning becomes increasingly important for these institutions. In collaborative learning, “new awareness” and “reflection” tend to occur from learners’ conversations and learning activities in which they teach each other. For this reason, collaborative learning can improve the learning effect compared to individual learning. However, in small schools in the depopulated area, the number of students is low. Therefore, it is difficult for students to learn through sufficient dialogue if the number of students is small in class. So, we developed an educational program that encourages knowledge sharing between deepens students’ learning in multiple classes.This paper describes the practice of the educational program and its effects.