The following article is a translation from The Yomiuri Shimbun's Education Renaissance series. This is the final installment in a five-part subseries that looks into activities carried out in various areas as part of the Newspapers in Education (NIE) movement. It focuses on three Tokyo teachers working to put together an NIE program in which primary, middle and high school teachers explore the same topics in their lessons. By Yuka Sumiyoshi　Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer From left, Kazumichi Sano, Reiko Yasukawa and Yasumichi Sakaguchi discuss their efforts on NIE in October in Taito Ward,Toyko. 　The joint plan carried out by the three teachers--one each from a primary, middle and high school--was result of a challenged posed to them by a Tokyo NIE promotion council. Since last year, each teacher has tried to organize a model lesson as part of the NIE campaign. Their lessons have one thing in common--using TV and radio program guides from newspapers. 　In July, the teachers reported their results to the NIE National Convention in Aomori, which was organized by the Nihon Shimbun Kyokai, or the Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association. Their reports garnered a great deal of attention from the other participants in the event. 　In October, the three teachers met again at a restaurant in Tokyo, where they held a comprehensive meeting after working on lessons using newspapers' TV and radio listings over the course of the past year. 　One of the teachers was Reiko Yasukawa, who currently teaches at Koishikawa Secondary Education School in Tokyo. Until last school year, she taught at Kudan Secondary School in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, where she had the students compare the coverage of the Hayabusa space probe's return to Earth and that of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing. She later brought up the comparison in a class she team-taught with a social studies teacher. This time she looked at the topic from a perspective of why the United States is a major world power. 　In team teaching, two or more teachers work together. The method is considered useful in many ways, such as helping all students, even the ones who fall behind the others, understand the lesson. 　 "I'm glad to have found that some of the techniques they employ in primary schools proved useful for me as well, such as using different colored markers [on the whiteboard]," Yasukawa said, looking back at the experience. 　Yasumichi Sakaguchi, 60, vice principal at Meiji High School in Chofu City, Tokyo, taught Japanese in the model class, where he encouraged students of the Meiji University affiliated school to do research on a number of topics based on newspapers' TV and radio pages. 　 "It's pretty rare for teachers to get together when our subjects are in different areas. I've learned it's possible to use the same measuring stick for classes at primary, middle and high schools," he said happily. 　The third teacher, Kazumichi Sano of Higashi-Chofu Primary School in Ota Ward, Tokyo, used the model class to let fifth-year students analyze the slots allocated for news programs in newspapers' TV sections and asked them what they thought about news reports on TV. 　 "It was a big discovery for me as a primary school teacher to learn about the levels of students' development all the way up to high school," he said. 　It seems each of the three teachers found clues on how to plan classes with students' development in mind. 　Meanwhile, more new ideas on NIE are coming into being as well. Katsuaki Toda, vice president of the NIE promotion council in Tokyo and the principal of Tokyo Metropolitan First Commercial High School, has proposed an "NIE Koshien," an NIE competition between schools in the same vein as the national high school baseball tournament, which is extremely popular among students and adults alike. 　 "Children work hard when they have a goal," Toda said. "'Koshien' will motivate students to do their best." 　NIE, using newspapers as a platform for learning, is thus spreading through friends, families and communities and bringing a new wind to the education scene.