REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2020
Country/Region [ Croatia ]School[ Privatna Sportska I jezična gimnazija FRANJO BUČAR ] Teacher [ Petra Zenić ] Grade (1and 2) Members (30)
JP school [ Ashiya International Secondary School ] Teacher [ Kuniko Yamanaka / Miyuki Shinkai ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson

Hours

EnglishIntroduction, Discussion, Research, Video Making, Sharing Ideas,Presentations

20

Arts

Introduction, Creating and sketching the mural, creating mural, drawing,painting the mural

10

Presentations on Japan, Learning new facts

2Geography# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeMessage
United thoughts toshare with the world

Education, Health and wellbeing, Environment, Sustainable cities and communities
We have to keep healthy and apply all the initiatives of the world health community. Also,
we have to make our cities and world sustainable and leave it healthy and clean for newgenerations.

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gainedStudents Learned about Japan, Japan’s culture andgeography, Japan’s Tradition.
Students learned about UN’s SDGs.
Students Made new friends in Japan.
Students started a discussion on COVID 19 andmade presentations and video calls to Japan.

Points for further improvement
Learning more about particular interests regarding
SDGs.
Learn more about Japan and its culture.
Stay in touch with Japanese students after theProject.
Make our own campaign to fight COVID 19# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Students made friends with Japanese students. Learned a lot about the project making.
They become more interested in Japan and their Discovered new ways of teaching.
culture.
Understood the students point of view and think weThey want more information on Japan.
should make some changes in teaching and in
They think we should more efficiently fight COVID Project making to make it better next time.
19.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonth
MEET
Selfintroduction

SHAREResearch onthe theme

UNITE
Message of910

11

united thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

1

2

What you did
Meet Japanese students
Introduced the school andthe students
Choose SDSs and made a
research
Deepen the collaborative
learning and made a bigger
research on the theme
United our thoughts andmade a message to convey
to the world
Japanese students madetheir part of the mural andsend it to us.
We made our half andpainted it
We displayed the work andtook photos.

Your students attitude/reflection
Were very excited, wrote about
themselves
and
madea
PPT
presentations and photos

Students found out new facts, changed
their way of thinking, made presentations
Students discussed and made manyinquiries on the Forum with Japanese
students
Students made sketches and drawings ofthe mural, they created their part of themural and appreciated it

Students made reports and discussed
their work

SubjectEnglishGeography

EnglishEnglishArt
EnglishEnglish# 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 effectEvaluation

Understanding yourown cultures

5

Understanding yourpartner's cultures

5

Information literacy(research, share)

Communication ability(interactive exchange)

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Active learningand action
Collaboration(in the class, with partners)

Expression ability(in words, in pictures)

443
443

Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

Scenes / points teachers felt the effects
Learned about health and sustainable cities and communities. Talked
about COVID and deepened our learning
Learned a lot about Japan, its culture and its specifies
We searched the internet sites, read books, talked about the informationcollected
We talked together in groups as a team, and also with Japanese students
We still need to think more and find more effective ways to solve
problems.
We learned actively, but still need to make efforts to put it in the practice
We worked on our Themes as a group and in smaller groups in theclassroom. Also participated in discussion with Japanese students
We are better in describing in words than we are in painting.
Still we will have to learn more and cooperate better in the future4