REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2022
Country/Region [ Belize ]School [ Saint Catherine Academy ] Teacher [ Tara Castillo / Hiroko Franklin ]Grade (High school 2nd form to 4th form) Member (21)
JP School [ Yokoshiba Elementary School ] Teacher [ Takaaki Oshio ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
SubjectConception of the lesson
1. What’s are SDGs
2. Gender equality and inequality in Belize
Extra-Curricular
3. Gender equality and inequality in Japan
4. Cross-cultural understanding
5. ArtHours40# Theme and Message of the muralTheme

Gender equality

Message"A future non-discriminatory world where a person’s worth is not defined by theirgender" This is not a short-term goal but as the project continues, it introduces more
people that can work together to be able to move forward towards these goals.

United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
Students have learned how to open up for something -More direct interaction between the students.
new to them, despite a language barrier between them, -Time management
they tried their best to understand each other.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
They were very interested in Japanese culture and Teachers got opportunity to see Japanese students,
students from very beginning of project. After the teachers and school. This experience gave themzoom meeting, they become more engaged with more accurate information when they talk about
project and positive attitude towards people who Japan and Japanese people instead of having one
speaks different language and accepting cultural stereo-type image of “Asian people”.
differences.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthRESEARCH
the themeSHAREwith thepartnerUNITE
the thoughts

CREATEthe mural

APPRECIATE
the wholelearning

JulyTo
Aug.

Oct.

Oct.
ToNov.

Dec.
toFeb.

March

What you did-Introduce
ourproject
members-Start researching andgathering info.

Your students’ attitude/reflection-They were very positive about getting
know each other-We were new to the theme so students
were struggling a little bit to gather theinfo.

-Communicate with ourpartner school via Forumand email-Having a meeting to planzoom meeting-Each students made sure to be familiar
with our theme and have their individua
opinion.
-They start to open up to say what is
the issue and what kind of future theywant to set as a goal

-Zoom meeting with partner
school-Reflecting what we haveshared at the meeting-After the discussion, they have learned
the cultural back ground is also affecting
to the issue we have today.
-They have learned we can come overthe language barriers if they determined
to understand each other.

-Exchanging the draft design
with partner school-Receive the mural andcomplete our side of mural-Putting all idea that have been
discussed was not easy task but they
tried to compromise in positive way withmany different opinions.

-Reflection-Share the thoughts andexperience
withentire
school and partner school-The students who participated thisproject were really happy to see theaccomplishment with the partner school
and also entire school appreciated theopportunity we had through the year.

Subject

Socialstudies

SocialStudies

SocialstudiesArt
Socialstudies

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 effectEvaluation

Cross-cultural
understanding

5

Active learningand action

5

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

5

Collaborating withdifferent people

4

Expressing in words,
in shape

4

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
As we more communicated with our partner school, they realized wehave many common issues but also some of them are different. Thatfact gave them the opportunity to understand differences in each
culture and country and how to face it with positive manners.
Students were assigned to do many researches to get familiar with thetheme. Especially sophomore students had many challenges to gather
resources and how to identify reliable information. This experience
helped students to be an active learner.
Through the active discussion, students learned different point of view,
different perspective, different ideas under the same theme. So theylearned step by step how to have a constructive discussion.
Zoom meeting was great experience for our students. Thanks for thetechnology today. Also receiving the mural physically was great
experience for them. The physical activity gave us the experience thevirtual activity cannot provide us.
It was not easy task to understand each other where we have language
barriers but that experience gave us the opportunity to think “How canI describe the issue in better way? What wording would make it easierto understand?”