REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2021
Country/Region [ Belarus ]School [ Gymnasium No.33, Minsk ] Teacher [ Natalya Razdobreeva ] Grade ( 5-6 ) Member ( 30 )JP School [ Aomori Higashi Junior High School ] Teacher [ Hirotomo Takayasu ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Community,Activity, Service(CAS)

EnglishArt

Hours

Surfing on the Internet for the SDGs

12

Make self-introduction, sharing the ideas with our partners

17

Design the mural and painting the mural16# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeMessage
United thoughts toshare with the world#15 life on land
WE SHOULD SAVE AND PASS ALL THE BEAUTY OF OUR NATURE TO RHE
FUTURE GENERATION.

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Our students know about the SDGs. They learn a
lot about Japanese Culture, they experienced toshare their ideas in English. Children learn how tomake friends with people from other country anddevelop their critical thinking and collaboratives
skills.

Points for further improvement
The elements of local culture, both Belarusianand Japanese, impressed the students. They
understand how important know foreign
languages.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Students had a great experience to work together, We gained the experience of international
think critically, adopt a global perspective.
collaboration and co-teaching. We managed tounite our views with our partners to express themessage in our mural.
# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

UNITE
Message ofunited thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

Sep.
Oct.

Nov.
Dec.

Jan.

What you did
First of all, our students
get acquaintedwith
theculture and traditions ofJapan, they also discussed the17 goals of SD and introduced
themselves to our partners.
We have shared the ideas withourpartners
actively,
researched the information of
the problems we had chosen
to study.
Thestudents
exchanged
thoughts
throughthediscussions on the forum,
united both thoughts and madea message to convey to theworld together
The mural with the message
was designed.

Feb.

Mar.

The students had a great
experience from painting thework.
We also took a group photobefore sending the mural backto Japan.

Your students’attitude/reflection
Pupils were impressed by theuniqueness of Japan. They wereexcited to have an opportunity totake part in global project.

Students gained a lot of
information about sustainable
solutions.

Students combined both thoughts
to create an integral mural

Our students painted the second
part of the mural. The whole
picturewascompleted
collaboratively with the Japanese
friends.
Art mile is a great project for thestudents to broaden their world
view. It also encouraged them totake a deeper look at the global
issues and even take some actions
to help solving some problems.

Subject
RussianEnglishSocialstudies
ICT

EnglishRussianICTART
EnglishICTART
EnglishICTART
EnglishSocialstudies
ICT# 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 effectiveat all)
Expected effectCross-cultural
understanding

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Evaluation

55

Active learningand action

5

Collaborating withdifferent people

5Expressing in words,in shape5Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
It was a great opportunity to share information with our partners
about Japanese and Belarusian culture, nature and traditions.

The students learned a lot about Sustainable Development Goals.
They managed to develop critical thinking thanks to the research on
the topic, which was chosen to be developed.
The students were active to participate during this project, they
searched, observed and shared their thoughts. It broadened theirhorizons. Working in a team unites people. Our teamwork made us
closer. Active collaboration improved our skills of active learning
Students collaborated with Japanese students actively. It was agreat experience for them.

Students expressed their theme quite effectively in art form. They
made description to explain what is represented in the mural.