REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2020
Country/Region [ Estonia ]School [ Tamsalu Gymnasium ]Teacher [ Reena Curphey ] Grade ( 8 )JP School [ Hijirigaoka Junior High School ] Teacher [ Saori Yoshimi ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
SubjectConception of the lesson
Art
EnglishMember (31)

Hours

Discussion of the theme, Individual artwork, joint mural painting

14

School introduction, presentation

2# Theme and Message of the muralThemeSDG 3, 12,13

MessageOur dream world, where people think responsibly about our planet (responsibleconsumption and climate action) and our health (good health and well-being, surviving
the pandemic of Covid-19).

United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
For most of the students it was the first international
project with another school. They have gained new
information about cultural differences, teamwork andlearning English.

Points for further improvement
As our students only have one art lesson a week, it
was difficult to manage the painting process. Next
time it would help if we leave more time for painting
part in our schedule sheet.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Students were interested in seeing partner school`s It was interesting to have an experience withphotos and videos as their school life is quite different and much bigger Japanese school than lastdifferent from ours.
year. Communication was faster and better this year.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

UNITE
Message ofJun.
Jul.
andSep.

Sep.

Oct.

united thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

Jan.
Feb.

Feb.

What you did
OurJapanesepartner
school students made selfintroduction
inJuly.
Estonianstudents
introduced themselves in
Septemberwhen
they
returned back to school.
Students from year 8 had adiscussion and PPP about
health in general and thecurrent situation of Covid19 in the world.
We communicated with ourpartner school throughforum and also had a Skype
video call.
Students painted the muralduring their art lessons.

Students talked about theexperience of taking part ofthe project. Sharing thenews in a local community.

Your students’ attitude/reflection
Our students enjoyed getting to know
our partner school students and about
their school life.
Estonian students took pictures of theschool and made presentation about
Estonia and our school.
They talked about their experience withdistance learning and how the world haschanged since March 2020.
Each student made individual artwork
based on SDG 3 (good health and wellbeing).
Students loved practicing their English
with Japanese students.

It was difficult time to manage thepainting process, because we had many
distance learning weeks due to Covid19. Our partner school is painting restof the background.
They were happy to be part of Artmile
project this year. It was interesting forthem to find out new information about
Japan and our partner school.

SubjectEnglishArtArtArtArtArt# 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 effectEvaluation

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects

Cross-cultural
understanding

4

Students were very excited about making presentations in English andtalking to the students from Japan through video call.

5

Our difficult time with distance learning helped them to plan their work
better and find new solutions for keeping up with the deadlines.

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Active learningand action

5

Collaborating withdifferent people

5

Expressing in words,
in shape

4

Students took part lots of presentations and discussions. As a result of
the learning process they created individual art work by themselves(beside the mural).
As there are 18 students at year 8, it was a good experience for them
to work in teams and manage their part of the mural.
As our painting process got rushed, we did not have enough time tofinish everything to the level that we would have wanted.