REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2022
Country/Region [ Belize ]School
[ St. Peter’s Anglican School ] Teacher [ Paula Lizarraga ] Grade ( 7 ) Member ( 28 )JP School [ Yokoshiba Elementary School ]Teacher [ Yuu Akiba ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson

Hours

Language Arts

How to carry out a research? Interviews

10

Expressive Arts

Rules for painting using canvas, using a paint brush, combining colors of paint,
painting

15# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Zero Hunger

MessageCreate a world with less hunger. Prevent wastage of food and share with others if wehave.

United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
Students are more aware of the difficulties Do further research into the poverty alleviation andencountered in our community. They have a better have them share with their other classmates.
understanding of the poverty and hunger situation in
our country and have some ideas that can help
alleviate the situation.
# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Students appreciated and valued messages made by The teachers are more appreciative of the ways thetheir partner school. They realized that the food eaten partner school carry out activities and have taken
by Japanese was much healthier than the ones in some ideas into consideration to use at our school.
Belize. Their vegetables are mostly steamed while inBelize mostly fried.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthRESEARCH
the theme

SHAREwith thepartner

UNITE
the thoughts

September

OctoberNovember

December

CREATE

January

the muralFebruaryAPPRECIATE
the wholelearning

March

What you did
Chose our learning themefrom the SDGs anddiscussed the theme with
our partner.
Learnt about their partner.
Explored the SDGs theychose and researchedtheir learning theme.

Your students’ attitude/reflection
Positive attitude in working with apartner school and discussing learning
theme. They arranged a learningschedule.
Recognized and appreciated theirculture.
Understood the importance of otherdiverse culture.
Explored the SDGs.
Showed interest in and awareness ofsocial challenges.

Presented to their partner
what they did on their side.
Exchanged opinions witheach other to deepen
learning

Approached their partner positively.
Presented information in a way that waseasily understandable.
Understood and respected diversity.
Adopted a Global perspective.

Clarified the points ofchallenges
andthesolutions discussed.
Deepened the discussions
from an objective andcritical perspective.
Thought on what they
could do to make their
future better and a
conscious creator of thefuture.
United both thoughts fromthe discussions and madea message to convey theworld together.
Drew and completed themural.
Displayed the mural andappreciated their work.
Sent it back to JapaneseSchool.
Experienced
theachievement of their work.
Reflected on the wholecollaborative learning andintrospected of how thelearners have grown before
and after this learning.
Each learner evaluatedhimself/herself.

Clarified and discussed issues.
Thought critically and multi directionally.
Had an awareness as a change maker ofthe society.
Expressed what they would like toconvey to the world in words.

Subject

ExpressiveArts

Language

Arts

Language

Arts

Created one mural collaboratively withfriends from different cultures.
ExpressiveArts

Reflected on the whole work and weremore thoughtful and appreciative of
their learning outcome.
Evaluated oneself and accepted it.

LanguageArts

# 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

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects

Cross-cultural
understanding

4

The information was made in English and had to be translated into
Japanese. This made it easier for their partner school to understandthe information.

Active learningand action

4They practice using the resources they have available and not towaste any material. They encouraged others to do the same.

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

4

Collaborating withdifferent people

4

Expressing in words,in shape4

Appreciate what they have in their country and support local
producers.
They had a little bit of difficulty understanding in Japanese, but since
everything was translated in English, they appreciated the work of
their partners. At first a bit shy, but they overcame it and shared
their thoughts.
Students enjoyed working together and understood one anotherbetter. The bond between students became stronger.