REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2020
Country/Region [ Taiwan ]School [ Shanhua Senior High School ] Teacher [ Hui-Yen Yang / Ching-Yi Chang ] Grade (2) Member (60)
JP School [ Toyohashi Chuo Senior High School ]Teacher [ Yoshio Takakura ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Developing students’ English abilities by learning how to introduce oneself,
Englishhow to talk about daily life and current situation in Taiwan.
Enabling students to paint the mural.
Combining the possible elements togetherArtMaking a draftCompleting the mural
Japanese
We teach students about Japanese culture and simple Japanese conversation.
cultureTeach the students Japanese culture, and make students think about theSocial Studies
current situation in Taiwan.
Teaching students how to search the information on the Internet and make
ICTPowerPoint

Hours
612

3
6
2

# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme
Message
United thoughts toshare with the world

Wipe out COVID-19 with technology and daily measures for our bright future.
We hope to show the world the current situation both in Taiwan and Japan, including
the impact, the anti-virus measures, and etc. Also we would like to show how we did ourbest to control the pandemic. In the mural, we also want to convey the message—aslong as we work together, we can defeat the virus.

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
Our students are more interested in learning English We try to improve the quality of our equipment,
or Japanese and foreign culture. Also they are more hoping to make the Skype session go more fluently.
willing to care about the social issues.
We found the paint might make the mural stick
together. (the signatures on the back peeled off alittle)

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Students were shy in the beginning, but they became Teachers of Toyohashi Chuo Senior High are always
more confident later and they are more interested in kind, friendly, and helpful. They always give
Taiwan.
constructive suggestions to make the project gosmoothly.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHAREResearch onthe themeUNITE
Message ofWhat you didWe asked our students toupload their self-introduction
videos onto an app called
Flipgrid and asked all thestudents
tointroduce
themselves on the first video
session.

Your students’ attitude/reflection
Our students were very excited tohave the chance to know Japanese
friends. They were nervous to
introduce themselves in English, butthey tried and did a good job.

Oct.

Our students collected theinformation from the Internetand TV news.

They were surprised at finding
Taiwan’s success in controlling thepandemic.

Nov.

Our students tried to find outthe corresponding anti-virus
measures.

They realized the difficulty ofcontrolling
thepandemic,
theimportance of working together tofight against the virus.

We looked for more resources
and assistance to create theelements of the mural. Then
we asked a student who isgood at painting to draw thedraft on the mural andrecruited some students tocomplete the mural during
winter vacation. Thanks to ourarts teachers’ instruction, ourstudents completed the muralefficiently.

They were hardworking in constructing
the subscript. They volunteered tostay at school during winter vacation,and they were happy and excited incompleting the mural.

We showed the mural in frontof our students on school
assembly, and introduce theprocess of our collaborative
learning in the AICL project.

Our students were thankful for thechance they had to join this project, inwhich they met friends from Japan,
enhanced their ability and interest in
English, and know more about
Japanese culture.

Aug.
Sep.

united thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

Dec.
Jan.

Feb.

Subject

EnglishArt

SocialStudies
EnglishSocialStudies
EnglishICTArt
EnglishJapanese
cultureArt
EnglishICT# Effect and evaluation gained through the collaborative learning
Evaluation: Rank 5 to 1 (5: very effective / 4: effective / 3: so- so / 2: not so effective / 1: not effective at all)

Expected effectCross-cultural
understanding
Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Active learningand action

Collaborating withdifferent people

Expressing in words,
in shape

Evaluation

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects

5Students involved better understood both countries, and they took theinitiative to discuss and make presentations on Skype sessions. Theyknew what people in Taiwan or Japan do to fight against the pandemic.

4Students knew that no one could get rid of the influence andinconvenience the virus gave us. They are willing to think about what
they can do to make the pandemic under control.

4

The whole world should cooperate to face our common enemy-thevirus. Most students are willing to follow the rules like wearing a mask,
washing hands more often, and etc. Students pay attention to theimpact the pandemic has.

5Collaboration is an effective to understand how the world moves
forward. Students were excited to see the mural which was half-doneby the Japanese students. They admired the work done by Japanese
students and were inspired to make a beautiful mural. They felt touchedwhen completing the mural for it was done because of the effort ofstudents on both sides.

4

Despite the threat of the virus, we can still feel the warmth and love
among humans. We look forward to the day when our students can meettheir Japanese friends in person, giving each a High-five, just like what
we paint in the middle circle on the mural.