REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2021
Country/Region [ Nepal ]School [ Gorkha International Public Secondary School ] Teacher [ Thamman Bahadur Basnet ] Grade (5-8) Member (40)
JP School [ Sanno Junior High School ] Teacher [ Yasuko Fukushima ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Science

Hours

Environment

10Social Studies, ArtSDGs, Culture and Tradition

15

OBTE, ICT

Occupation, ICT in learning*OBTE: Occupation, Business and Technology Education

10# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeSAVE THE NATURE

Message

The people across the world are facing the problems like environmental pollution, foodcrisis, discrimination, health hazards due to human activities. It is prime to ignite all thechildren through school curriculum with the feelings of humanity, citizenship, gratitude,
consideration, respecting nature and so on.

United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
They grow aware with global issues.
They explored the horizon of humanity across theglobe.
They learnt how human activities are prime cause ofenvironmental degradation.
They conducted interschool painting competition,
collage competition under the theme SAVE THE
NATURE in school.

Points for further improvement
The children should be encouraged to be proactive.
Team work should be given priority.
Detail research on SDGs and the global scenario ofSDGs should be informed to the children.
The constructive and creative solutions to global
issues (such as stopping environment degradation,
to be aware of health issues, share extra food toother to mitigate food crisis, avoid discrimination,
respect to every work and culture) must bepractically developed in children.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Aware of global issues like climatic changes, Teachers felt changes in:poverty, jobs and human life.
Received knowledge on SDGs and grow confident,i. How ICT helps in effective teaching.
responsible, as well as good and smart child.
ii. The teaching must be based in international
They learnt about use of ICT in learning, observe
dimension.
the worldly situation of cross-cultural practices,
iii. Communication skill, critical thinking andchallenges and opportunities of collaborative
problem solving skills imagination and creative
learning.
thinking skills and collaborative skills got
sharpened.
iv. Planning before acting is the most essential
step in each work.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

Jul.

Oct.

What you did
As per plan I encouraged
my students to prepare
greeting cards in order tofacilitate their introduction
to their foreign friends.
Since SDGs are theguidelines for the project, I
inspired the children tovisit websites and searchdetail information about
SDGs.

Your students’ attitude/reflection
They introduced to their partner.
Completely amazed to have a talk withforeign friends.
Excited to collaborate in the selected
theme.
With the help of subject teacher,formed five different group of eight
members.

I kept on discussing withthestudents,
partnerteacher, subject teacher ofmy school about the topic.
The selected topics:

Prepared pictures with proper
description of each selected head.
Both the partners made questions toeach other based on the research
topic.
Nepalese students learnt the tactful
knowledge of describing the paintings
they created by observing Japanese
students’ work.
They shared their findings brilliantly in
the Zoom meeting.

i. Ocean pollution
ii. Environmental
degradationiii. Discrimination
iv. Food crisis
v. Medical issues
aredeeply
discussed
among all.
I encouraged my students
and fellow teachers to beprepared for discussion
with partner participants.

Subject

SocialStudies,EnglishSocialStudies,Science,
ArtContent

UNITE
Message ofMonthNov.

united thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

Feb.

Mar.

What you did
Frequently, we both partner
school exchanged the mailswhich had great discussionof making a message ofunited thoughts.
Based on SDGs, at first, wediscussed about division ofmural. Then, to capture ourtheme SAVE THE NATURE,
we agreed to incorporate
both schools’ ideas in muralin full fledge collaboration.

Your students’ attitude/reflection
Bothschool
students
createdpreliminary pictures.
Then they searched the integration of
the work in national curriculum. They
felt excited when they find a beautiful
match between the work and theprescribed course.
My students studied the exchanged
works well and developed a brilliant
thought.
Mixing the idea of Japanese students,
my students created a work.

A fruitful discussion wasmade with the students,
subject teacher and foreign
partner to finalize the muralconcept.
As per the discussion, Nepal
was given to create snow
capped mountains, greenery
area, and desert, industrial
impact in nature.

They researched the topography ofNepal and Japan in books and websites.
They also collected information aboutindustrial areas and impact of industrial
wastes in nature, human activities andadverse effects in nature.

It was a really amazing
mural,
I
can’tstop
appreciating it.
I requested to my partner toaccept
myfriendshipforever.
AndI
promised
ourfriendship, collaboration anddignities never let us down.

They frankly and honestly appreciatedthe mural.
They shared their hobbies and promised
to continue their collaboration in comingdays.

Subject

SocialStudies,
Science,
OBTE,
ICTSocialStudies,
Science,
ICT

SocialStudies# 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)

Evaluation

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects

4

They exchanged the views and findings about the food habits of Japaneseand Nepalese in Zoom meeting. They learnt the names and special dishesof both countries.

5Keeping themselves within the topic, they identified the problems. Similarly,
they focused on SDGs. They derived the ways of mitigating discrimination
among the people. They found causes and effects of food problem, thesources of environment polluting activities. Finally, they come up withapplicable solutions of all those problems.

Expected effect
Active learningand action

Collaborating withdifferent people

Expressing in words,
in shape

Evaluation

545

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
They consulted different sources of learning. They had field visit (slumsettles, agricultural fields, temples and public places) and in the visit, theyobserved life, work, culture, health issues and waste management.
The ARTMILE forum, Zoom meeting, exchanged emails are best keys towork in team, build up leadership quality, grow with critical thinking andproblem solving skills. The final mural (switching each other’s ideas andtechniques while creating a remarkable mural) is the outstanding outcomeof effective collaboration.
The act of appreciating each other’s work, the wonderful description of theSDGs in reference to the created pictures, clearly stated learnings andfindings, the expression of visionary hobbies are fabulous signposts oflearning outcomes of the project.