REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2019
Country/Region [ Oman ]School[ Shumoo’a Al-Marifa BE school (1-4) ] Teacher [ Shaima Ahmed ] Grade (2-3-4) Members (12 )JP school [ Yamagata Nishi Elementary school ] Teacher [ Mamoru Takahashi ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
EnglishSocial Studies
ICT
History
Geography
Art

Hours

Communication/ introduction/ reading/ writing/ speaking

10

Culture/ traditions/ costumes/ life style5

Research/ reading/ drawing

15

Cultural diversity

4

Location of partner school

1

Drawing / painting20# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Peace, equal education, protecting environment

MessageIn order for people to develop their countries, they have to live in peace and have equal
education as one of their rights. In return, they are obliged to protect the environment andsave the Earth.

United thoughts toshare with the world

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement• They have learned how to introduce themselves to More communication between the students of thenew friends.
two schools.
• They deepened their knowledge about their own
culture and other countries’ cultures.
• They learned to understand and respect thesimilarities and differences of other cultures.
• They collaborated to think, share, discuss andpaint.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
The students understand and respect cultural Encourage students to develop their English language
diversity.
through reading, writing and speaking.
They thought critically, share, discuss and unit their Encourage students to deepen their knowledge aboutthoughts.
their own culture and the Japanese culture.
They worked collaboratively to draw and paint themural.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research onthe theme

UNITE
Message ofWhat you did
Your students attitude/reflection
Students
introduce They were very excited to introduce
themselves and the region themselves to new friends from athrough videos.
different country.

Subject

Students searched about
the SDGs in Oman, wrote
paragraphs and posted themin the forum.

They deepened their knowledge about
the different topics of SDG.

EnglishHistorySocialStudies
ICT

They studied the Japanese culture in
the mural and were interested about it.

Nov

We agreed on the things weare going to include in themural.

DecJanDrew the other half of themural which reflect theOmani culture and views.

They were very excited to paint themural and to show their culture to
their Japanese friends.

students talked about what
they learned from theproject.
The school appreciated their
hard work in the morning
assembly.

They expressed their happiness inparticipating in this project.

SepOctunited thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

Nov

EnglishSocialStudies

EnglishGeography
HistoryArt
History

English# 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 effect
Understanding yourown cultures
Understanding yourpartner's cultures
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)

Evaluation

555533Students searched about Omani culture and wrote paragraphs. Theydrew pictures reflecting Omani culture and scenes.
The Japanese students sent letters talking about their culture and themost famous scenes in their town. The Omani students studied thepictures in the mural which reflect the Japanese culture.
The students searched about SDGs in Oman, wrote paragraphs andshared the information in the forum.
They interacted actively in this project. They were able to introduce
themselves in English and listened to the Japanese students introducing
themselves.
Building up a message to convey to the world and choosing what to put
in the mural that match the Japanese drawing.
Searching, sharing and reading about culture.

5

They discuss together what to include in the mural. They cooperate todraw and paint the pictures.

5

They wrote paragraphs about Omani culture. They drew pictures
expressing the Omani scenes.

5

The administration of the school appreciated the project and theparticipants in front of the whole school.

Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

Scenes / points teachers felt the effects