REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2022
Country/Region [ Croatia ]School[ PSJG Franjo Bucar ] Teacher [ Petra Zenic ] Grade ( 1-2 ) Member ( 27 )JP School [ Ena High School ]Teacher [ Kayoko Natsume ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Introduction, Discussion, Research, Making PPTs, Making videos, Sharing
Englishideas, Presentations, Taking photos
Introduction, Creating the mural, Taking photos, Discussing the work,
Arts
Appreciating
Geography

Introduction, Students’ questions of interest, videos, discussion, research

Hours40153# Theme and Message of the muralTheme
Be part of creating a harmonious and equal world
Gender Equality and Climate Change are our problems, not someone else's.
We have caused Climate Change, so we must work together to solve it.
We have to stop being selfish but start to educate ourselves and others, and think about
the next generations.
We need to change the way we think about relationships and gender stereotypes.
Message
To create a better future for everyone, we must respect, be kind and supportive of all
United thoughts toshare with the world
people, regardless of gender.
We strive to be a role model for everyone, ourselves, home, school, the community.
By doing so, humans, plants and animals can live in harmony and everyone, regardlessof gender, can live the life they want.
We can create the world and the future to be better.

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gainedStudents learned about Japan, Japan’s culture andgeography, Japan’s tradition, and cuisine. They also
learned some Japanese words and expressed theinterest in learning Japanese language.
Students learned about UN’s SDGs about Climate
Change and Gender Equality. They have actively
researched and deepened their knowledge on the topic
and shared and expressed their thoughts and opinion
together with Japan students.
Students made new friends in Japan and talked withthem via Zoom. Also, they have studied together andasked questions which was developing their criticalthinking and language abilities.
Students started a discussion on Environmental
issues and raised the awareness on global warming.
Also, they have thought about inequality of genders
and started to be more tolerant to each other. Mystudents have implemented the knowledge of theproject and started to care more about the problemsof the world and showed some aspects of it in thecommunity (started to collect plastic bottles and sellit, not use plastic cutlery, take more care about waterand electricity, be more polite to other gender, discuss
openly their opinion during other classes and subjects)

Points for further improvement
Learn more about Japan and culture.
Stay in touch with Japanese students after theProject.
As Global Warming and Gender Equality are broad
topics, and the general public has started to talkabout it more in the last decade, we believe morewill be to learn and deepen our knowledge about
those topics and also to think about the ways toprevent the warming and find ways to be moretolerant to each other regardless the gender.
Gender Equality is the topic our society in Croatia
is talking about publicly but there is still a grandnumber of people who do not support the changes.
We believe we could still learn and discuss more
about the subject and change our old ways ofthinking. Croatia is deeply traditional, patriarchic,catholic country and majority of people is not readyfor new ideas and not open to let the old ways go.
We believe this is a great topic for the future
conversations as there will definitely be more ofthem 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
Students made friends with Japanese students. They Teachers have grown with students. We have learned
become more interested in Japan and its culture. with them and from them. We have learned new facts
They learned new words in Japanese.
and became more aware of the problems in ourThey want more information on Japan and its ways.
environment.
Students think we should do more for our Also, as a teacher, I did not only talk about thoseenvironment and actively make changes.
problems with the students from the Project but we
We have found out about Gender Equality in Japan discussed it as a school and also present it to theand what Japan does to prevent Global Warming. community.
Although the countries are miles apart, we could find I was a part of the education for the teacherssimilarities between Japan and Croatia and realized organized by Croatian education ministry, and wethat we want the same.
had a game and discussion on the subject because
Also, because we were a part of the Project, we it is a hot topic in Croatia and Europe, and we haveenrolled into the Green Deal project of EU for many problems because of the hotter weather. We
environment, and we took part of the panel will have to think of the way to reverse it and I
discussions as a school because we realized this believe we all can make a difference.
topics matter and we want to do something.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthRESEARCHthe theme

SHAREwith thepartner

UNITE
the thoughts

CREATEthe muralJun.
Jul.

Sep.
Oct.

Nov.
Dec.

Jan.
Feb.

What you did
Met Japanese students.
Introduced our school toJapanese students (madeintroductions with photos
and made PPTs).
Chose SDGs and made apreliminary research (about
Global Warming and Gender
Equality). Each student hadtheassignment
toinvestigate the situation on
the internet, in articles andTV and told others about it.
Deepened the collaborative
learning and made bigger
research on the theme. We
had two Zoom meetings
where we introduced thetopics and started to think
what we can do to combat
climate change.
Watched videos and learned
about Japan and theirperspective.
United our thoughts andmade a message to convey
to the world.
Discussed about the muralon other two Zoom meetingsand proposed what we canpaint on it that conveys themessage.
Japanese students madetheir part of the mural andsend it to Croatia.
We made our half andpaintedit.
We
wereexchanging photos andvideos during the process
and reviewed our activities
so far.

Your students’ attitude/reflection
Students were very excited; they wrote
about themselves and made PPT
presentations and photos and saw the
introduction of the students from Japan.
We learned new facts and were stunned
how Japan culture and school system isdifferent than ours but that we still havethe same global ideas regardless of ourdifference. As the topics were so
popular and a lot of politicians andactivists in Europe talk about them, we
had a lot of materials to research from.
Students found out new facts, changed
their way of thinking and madepresentations.
They knew about the global warming but
now they have realized how serious it isand that it is not just the isolated but
the global problem.
I investigated the statistics from the EU
pages to find out what is being done
about the problem and presented it to
the students who were amazed about
the percentages.
Students discussed and made manyinquiries on the Forum with Japanese
students. We have realized that we areresponsible for the changes and that weneed to find the way to fix it.
We exchanged ideas about the mural on
the Forum and about the future we wantto create and problems we face.
Students discussed and agreed on themural drawing.
They collaborated and exchanged ideas
on how to paint by working together. It
was a challenge to paint such abstract
thought as Gender Equality and Global
Warming on the mural so we had to think
about the metaphors and colors andsymbolism.

Subject

EnglishGeography

ScienceEnglishEnglishEnglishArts

Content

Month

APPRECIATE
the wholelearningFeb.
Mar.

What you did
We displayed the work on
the school panel to beappreciated and took photos
and reflected on the work.
Made presentations to unite
thoughts and had a lastZoom meeting to discuss ourwork and share our thoughts
and presentations.

Your students’ attitude/reflection
Students made reports and discussed
their work. They were glad to work withJapanese students and expressed theidea to come to Japan and meet theirfriends in the future.
We will not stop with the exploration of
the topic after the project ends but
incorporate it in our studies and deepen
our knowledge more.

Subject

EnglishArts# 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 effectEvaluationCross-cultural
understanding

4-5

Active learningand action

4-5

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

5

Collaborating withdifferent people

5

Expressing in words,in shape

5

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
We learned about differences between Croatia and Japan.
We learned about history and culture of Japan and compared it withCroatia. We learned a lot but still think we would like to know more
about Japan.
We discussed the Global Warming and Gender Equality goals andexplained the effects on environment and the world.
We improved our thinking and learned about the objectives. Japanesestudents made their points so clearly and in depth so we wanted towork harder to keep their effort.
We learned actively, by watching videos, reading articles, taking lectures
and talking and discussing our ideas together with Japanese school.
Also, we participated in a GREEN CINEMA panel discussion andwatched videos. All of it made me think again about all exchanged and I
have realized that although we cannot all think same, we agree on most.
We collaborated with Japanese students. We come from different
cultural backgrounds but managed to overcome them and enjoyed ourwork together. Also, our thoughts were almost identical although wemight have come to them from different perspectives and backgrounds.
We expressed our thoughts with posters, words, presentations andfinally in drawing and painting. Also, we took photos and expressed ourview in panel work.