REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2020
Country/Region [ Belgium ]School[ GO! Busleyden Atheneum Campus Pitzemburg ]Teacher [ Eef Haezebrouck, Katrien Petit ,Steven Van der Taelen (project coordinator internationalisation ] Grade ( 5 ) Member ( 40 )JP School [ Miyagi Prefectural Tomiya Senior High School ]Teacher [ Mio Yashima ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
SubjectConception of the lesson

Hours

Cultural/Sciences/seminar Cultural differences & Symbols

6

Cultural/Sciences/seminar Plastic Pollution, sustainability

3

Cultural/Sciences/seminar Concept and creation of the canvas18# Theme and Message of the mural
Due to Covid-19 a plastic tsunami threatens the world even more. International
Themecollaboration is needed to start regeneration/rebirth of life."

Message

The need of partnership (17) to be able to achieve the following SDG's: 3, 6, 7, 11,12, 13, 14, 15.

United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Creative thinking
Learning about cultural differences and symbols
Teamwork and decision making

Points for further improvement
Increasing the number of active painters
The lack of live contact (online) due to timedifferences# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
They gained knowledge about Japan (economics, The differences between school systems in Japan
school system.)and Belgium (hours, classes, holidays). The teachers
in Belgium seem to have more time off. Workload inJapan is higher.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

UNITE
Message ofunited thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

What you did
Self introduction videoYour students’ attitude/reflection
They liked it and had fun creating thevideos

Scientific research about
pollution,
sustainability,
COVID-19 (wellbeing)
Presenting our country(school, ….)
Brainstorm
about
thecanvas
Symbolism and habits inJapan

Gaining knowledge and broaden theirworld view

Gaining knowledge and broaden theirworld view

Culturalsciences
andseminar

Brainstorm and draft
Drawing and painting

Team spirit and improving self image
Escape the hard COVID-reality

CulturalsciencesandseminarPictures of the canvasClassdiscussion
afterpresentation of the canvas

Strengthening self imageEscape the hard COVID-reality

Culturalsciences
andseminar

Jun.
Sep.

Sep.

Sep.
Oct.

Feb.

Mar.

Subject
Culturalsciences
andseminar
Culturalsciences
andseminar# 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 effectCross-cultural
understanding

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Active learningand action
Collaborating withdifferent people
Expressing in words,
in shape

Evaluation

53

3

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
Communication through the forum
Sharing thoughts
Sharing good and bad news about daily reality in the country
Due to COVID-19 (part-time education) there wasn’t enough time todeepen our thoughts. We had to emphasize the creative partDue to COVID-19 (part-time education) we had to use our timecreating the mural.

Collaboration through the forum, teamwork in class45

Students discovered their creative talents, thoughts and messages
were shared (forum, New Year,...)