REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2022
Country/Region [ India ]School[ Christ Nagar Higher Secondary School ] Teacher [ Thomas Mani P ] Grade ( 8 ) Member ( 29 )JP School [ Bunka Gakuen Nagano Junior High School ] Teacher [ Chieko Enomoto ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson

Hours

Self-introduction, introducing the city, country, culture and festivals

5Planning and learning ideas for SDG

10Searching for information on diseases, epidemic. Sources of water. Purificationof water. Water pollution

5Mathematics

Knowledge of data collection and making graphs

5ComputerVideo conferences, making PowerPoint presentation, Research, reading
document on Japan, water pollution, purification and learning about mural
painting

10

Art & craft

Painting techniques, colours, shapes, practice group paintings

5

EnglishSocial Studies
Science# Theme and Message of the mural
Water issues in the world
ThemeMessage
United thoughts toshare with the world

Let’s stop wasting. “MOTTAINAI”
Let’s stop the negative cycle
Water, our source of life, is not a given
Our small action to conserve makes the future better

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gainedThe motivation will make them continue to researchon other issues.
Understood global SDG issues.
Improved planning skills, learned time management.
They incorporated technology in learning andpresenting, collaborate and learn, Cross-Cultural
understanding.
Learned to communicate effectively.
Learned drawing skills.

Points for further improvement
More number of Google meet, Zoom or Skype callswith the partner school.
For completion of drawing only limited time. Moretime can be given.
More art class are needed to learn painting ordrawing.
It has created a good impression so we hope toparticipate in the future.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
They started thinking globally.
Learned and compared the teaching learning process
Able to get friends from far and to learn to respect in other countries.
others’ opinions and different culture.
Incorporated art in teaching.
They enjoyed communicating and working as a group. They enjoyed working with the project.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthRESEARCH
the theme

SHAREwith thepartnerUNITE
the thoughts

CREATEthe muralAPPRECIATE
the wholelearningJun.

What you did
Your students’ attitude/reflection
PowerPoint presentation
Students understood the theme andshared on the Forumstarted giving ideas towards the muralintroducing students
paining.
A short video introducing
the school shared on theForum

SubjectScience,
SocialStudies

Jul.

Deepen our knowledge on
the topic
Students exchanged ourexperience and findings

Students learned communication skills.
How to interact with Japanese
students.

Aug.

Messages posted on theForum
Posters created

The students enjoyed this part because
they were able to talk about themselvesto the other students.

EnglishStudents
sharedtheirdrawings on the Forum andpainted the mural and madechanges accordingly

The students were waiting for the mural
to finish and sent from Japan. Whenthey received it, they started working ingroups because students don't come toschool on regular basis because oflockdown.

ArtWe completed the mural andtook pictures with all
students
andstudents
involved in the painting

They felt that they achieved something
they never dreamt they could do. They
were excited with the outcome.

Oct.
Nov.

Jan.

EnglishArt# 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

Cross-cultural
understanding

5Presentation done on PowerPoint presentations on celebrations andfestivals of their country.

5The research done one the topic and the interaction between the twoschools students group helped to personalize the thinking process.
Ideas were shared.

4Students learned about the source of water, purification and causes ofpollution and the methods to reduce pollution of water.

5The students enjoyed the collaboration. They could share theresearch content, discussed and formulated the final document.

Active learningand action
Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Collaborating withdifferent people

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects

AICL - Artmile Japan the online platform gave our school three yearsof thrilling experience. Starting from the year 2020 enabling modern
education open to the world, promoting the training of responsible
citizens aware of the challenges of tomorrow.

Expressing in words,in shape5

Everyone has involved pupils, teachers, parents, and partners. The
outcome we could accomplish is something so big, beautiful, andthrilled and excited with the whole learning process.
Exchanges with the Japanese school, the creation of a collective work
(Mural Painting) the best result and feedback of this project. We aredelighted and proud of our partner's work as well as ours. Well done toeveryone.
Looking forward to another exciting year 2023 with another partner
school with a new set of Christ Nagar School students.