REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2019
Country/Region [ Germany ]School[Bonn International School] Teacher [ Jane Taylor/John Widder ] Grade ( 7-11 )Members ( 55+12 arts group painters after school )JP school [ Ashiya International Secondary School ] Teacher [ Kaoru Takashina / Miyuki Shinkai ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Visual Art G8

4 week unit planning ideas for SDG #13 with G8 students (age 13-14)

Arts after school Not lessons, but student-led project giving service and following their art andgroup
painting passions collaboratively.

Hours610# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

SDG #13 Climate Action

Message

We must collaborate with action to save the planet.

United thoughts to share with the world# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Collaboration (painting group)
Cross-Cultural Understanding (all students)
Planning Skills (all students)
Research (G8)
Self Management/Time Management (all students)
Commitment to a project
Understanding and considering global issues (SDGs)
Drawing skills/visual communication (all students)

Points for further improvement
Maybe lone or two live Skype or Google Chat calls if
participating in the future?
Time was tight to complete the mural requiring
after-school commitment from the painting group
Time pressure meant that me as a teacher had tocomplete final idea drawing from students’ ideas
which was tricky at the time. More time could havebeen dedicated to this.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachersMore of the above…’effects’
Seeing a positive outcome was satisfying. Our school
was featured in the local paper and on school
publicity which was positive.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHAREAug

Research onthe theme

Sept

UNITE

OctNov

Message ofunited thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

JanFeb

FebMarch

What you did
Your students attitude/reflection
Short unit on the concept/ Keen, interested (most)
JAM and planning activities Liked seeing Japan school’s research.
after SDG research
Ideas were narrowed

As above

Best ideas combined fromboth schools into one finalidea.
Shared Japan students’
gifts and wonderful work.
Shared videos from Japanschool. Completed our partof the mural.
Photo shoot and sharedcompleted images fromJapanese school. Sharedwithwider
schoolcommunity.

Not involved much. They did select the 6favorite designs.
Great commitment and collaborationfrom 12 students involved.

Subject
VisualArt
VisualArt
VisualArt

After
SchoolArt ClubPleased! Keen to do it again next year!
After
SchoolArt Club# 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 / points teachers felt the effects
Imagery, selection.

Understanding yourown cultures

3

Understanding yourpartner's cultures

4

Seeing the lovely videos and hand-painted goods…they did a great job,
we felt rushed and maybe could have done more.

4

Good starting activity for the school year for grade 8. Summative task
assessing research and planning.

3

As we both had some absences in Semester 1 it was difficult for us atB.I.S to keep on top of communication.

Information literacy(research, share)

Communication ability(interactive exchange)

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Active learningand action
Collaboration(in the class, with partners)

Expression ability(in words, in pictures)

3
4
5
4

Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

Maybe we could improve this for our own students next year.
Was good, though maybe more valuable for the select arts group than G8students.
Excellent, with the painting group.
Good, we were able to express ideas well.
Good communications and a local paper article!

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