REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2020
Country/Region [ Slovakia ]School[ School of Art Industry ]JP School [ Yatsushiro High school ]Teacher [ Pavel Michalič ] Grade ( 1-2 ) Member ( 10 )Teacher [ Kumiko Watanabe ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Planning andResearch on the theme
Exploring
Refine the theme

Drawing

Design a mural with message
Exchange ideas and sketches through the FORUM
Draw images to ideas and come up with a common composition

Painting

Paint the other half to complete the mural

Hours202050# Theme and Message of the muralTheme

12 – RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION

Message

We preserve the Earth’s nature by responsible consumption of food, water, goods,energy and production.

United thoughts toshare with the world

# Skills and Problems
Skills your students have gained
Joint painting is a result of an excellent project, ourstudents enjoyed and were delighted to be working
with Japanese partner school’s students eventhough the teaching was online due to the Covid19
pandemics as they painted under restrictedconditions in small groups.

Points for further improvement
Our students would like to keep in touch withJapanese partners via Skype or Zoom in the newonline project. We believe that the next school year
we will see less restrictions to teaching.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Due to the lack of time zones our students were We had no complaints, our cooperation was excellent
unable to communicate with the Japanese partners and communication through the FORUM was active
via Skype or Zoom.
and collegial. We look forward to future cooperationand many interesting ideas resulting from thecooperation.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHAREResearch onthe theme

UNITE
Message ofJune

Sep.

Oct.

united thoughts

What you did- Introduce the students,

Your students’ attitude/reflection
The students enjoyed the exchange ofstudent introductions. The students areschool and region- Research on the theme - very interested in the Japanese culture
and nature.
Make plan-Refine the theme.
- Share the research withthe partners- Discussion about thetopic on the FORUM
portal.
- Brainstorm a message.
- Due to the pandemics andtime difference, the video
meeting did not take place.
-Draft the design of the

Mural painting

DrawNov.

-sketches

andJan.
Feb.

create common design formural painting- Paint to complete Mural-Reflect on the whole
APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

Mar.

English-The waste of food is harmful tosociety and nature.
- Consultation on the need to value thework of farmers and food production.
Students have prepared presentationsof Slovak nature and Slovak traditional
dishes.

ARTART-The students made several designs,
which were later used for jointMural.

CREATE

Subject

collaborative learning-Looking back at all theactivities of AICL.

painting.

-Agreeonafinalcomposition.
-A painting from Japanese partner
school was delivered in December 2020.
-Shipping date from Slovakia: February
17, 2021-Students enjoyed the common project.
-We have met new friends andprotectors of nature.

ARTART

# 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

Evaluation

54

35

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
From Japanese students our students learned about their country,
school and voluntary work in protecting their surroundings after floods
in summer 2020.
We discussed the waste of food. About the need to consider
consumption and purchases of a large number of foods that are notprescribed. There are countries where there is a lack of water and food.
An active approach to the project resolution was partly limited due tothe pandemic and from the resulting restrictions.

We have made friends who are interested in nature and cultural heritage
protection too. Students’ great interest in the theme helped spark
inspiration for the project theme.
In small groups during painting, students were interested in painting

Expressing in words,
in shape

5

technique with special acrylic colors on canvas.
In the painting they used their experiences from the art practicecurriculum. .