REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2022
Country/Region [ Nepal ]School [ Gorkha International Public Secondary School ] Teacher [ Thamman Bahadur Basnet ] Grade (5-8) Member (50)
JP School [ Otemon Gakuin junior/senior High School ]Teacher [ Tomonao Tabashi ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
SubjectConception of the lesson

Hours

Science, Health and Environment

Food and shelter

10Social Studies and Creative Arts

SDGs We and Our Community

8

Occupation, Business,and Education (OBTE)

Occupation, ICT and Profession

10ICT7Technology

Computer# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeMessage
United thoughts toshare with the world

No Poverty
Every problem has their solution. Let’s prepare a considerate, grateful, helpful, honestchild at every school and in each home. Then it will make them ready to combat withpoverty. Hence, poverty is not a problem if anyone acts to overcome the poverty one
should work to support the needy ones through food bank, cloth bank, collect economic
support through social media.

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained They started to stop wasting food.
 After visiting senior citizens at old age home,they decided to help them with sacks of rice,
fruit and warm cloths.
 They made wall paint in school boundary wall
to aware the people.
 They organized interclass collage competition

Points for further improvement
The children should grow more responsible
towards humanity.
Effective communication, collaboration
among the children is must.
Practically involve the children in socialworks.
Encourage all the children to support theneedy one by donating food bank, clothbank.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers Started to work in social service.
 Excited to be updated with global issues.
 Stopped being spendthrift.
 Started to teach the children integrating
 Made collage competition on how an ICT help tointernational dimension in each subject.
mitigate poverty.
 Communication, creative and critical thinking, The best part is they love sharing their snacks,
leadership, problem solving skills are observed.
sometimes pencil, copies among the friends.
 Communication, creative and critical thinking,problem solving, skills are observed.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthRESEARCH
the theme

SHAREwith thepartner

UNITE
the thoughts

CREATEthe muralJul.

Oct.

Dec.

Feb.

What you didThestudents
areencouraged to research on
SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENTGOALS.
Primarily they are asked tofocus their research on goal
no. 1 {No Poverty}
Intensive discussion with thelearners, subject teachers,
project coordinator, andhead teacher on thefollowing topics:
 Sustainable
development goals
 No Poverty
 Cause of poverty
 Solutions of poverty
Shared the idea on No
Poverty with the students.
Discussed with the partnerschool.
Made video and shared inforum
Exchanged the idea ofmaking the final mural.
Come to the balanced idea
to create a meaningful mural: The mural will be divided
into several bubbles.
 Each bubble will containdifferent issues.
 Causes, effects andsolutions are clearlydrawn in the canvas.

Your students’ attitude/reflection
Listed the causes of poverty in Nepal.
They discussed on solutions and wayout. They felt excited to make greetingcards for their foreign friends.

Collected various information relatedtopoverty.
Preparedsomequestionnaire about the poverty
condition of Japan for the partners.
Made some drawings related topoverty: cause effect and solutions.

Exchanged their findings on poverty
cause, effect and solutions for bothcountries through video.
They answered each other’s queries
as much as possible.
They had effective communication andbuild bold friendship.
Consulted different websites, links andmaterials to bring the best message tothe world.
Communicated well with the partners,
teachers and parents as well.
Practiced reflecting their learning in
the drawings.
Enjoyed the national as well astransnational collaboration.

Subject
S.S andCreative Art

EnglishComputerS.S andCreative Art

EnglishOBTEScience

English
OBTE
ComputerScience

EnglishS.S andCreative ArtScience
ComputerAPPRECIATE
the wholelearningMar.

It was really unforgettable
collaboration. Learnt very
innovative ideas such as useof ICT can help to reducepoverty.
Brilliant ideas generated:
1. food bank
2. cloth bank
3. donation box

Grew with good communication skills,
helpful, considerate, grateful andloving.
Promised to be friends forever
Grew proactive, more responsible,
hardworking,independent,
andengaged in fruitful activities.

OBTE
EnglishComputerScience# 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
Active learningand action
Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Collaborating withdifferent people
Expressing in words,
in shape

Evaluation

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects

5They learnt different social practices of both countries: lifestyle,occupations, food habits, culture,4

The lack of direct virtual meeting made the learners a little bit inactive
in some extent; however, they had great learning on the issue

55

4

Researched on the topic. Identified the problem, discussed on causes,
exchanged ideas on solutions. Critically evaluated each other’s ideas.
Derived the conclusion and made a final opinion.
Good practice of communication was observed among the participantsof both sides’ learners.
Along with the mural, both learners parceled the handmade cards withappreciative words. Due to linguistic problem, the learners faced
problems in communication but still they had strong exchanges.