REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2021
Country/Region [ Taiwan ]School [ Ying-Qiao Elementary School ] Teacher [ Yen-Chun Lin (Ajen) ] Grade ( 3-6 ) Member ( 16 )JP School [ Anjo-Chubu Elementary School ]Teacher [ Miki Sugiura ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Communication Greeting with people in different country.
and cooperation How to do self-introduce and school introduce in English.
skillsHow to communicate and cooperate with other people abroad.
CultureSDGs Research

Report abilityArt

To know Japan culture and find the specific features of our own culture.
Learn about SDGs, select the topics we want to know more about with ourpartner.
Research on international issues, the current situation of Taiwan and otherrelevant information for the selected SDGs issue, and put forward specificaction plans.
Discuss the key concepts and core declarations we want to present on themurals with our partner.
How to use visual charts to integrate the collected information, and practice
publishing in English.
To design mural drafts and collect relevant images.
To know and practice the skills of painting the mural.

Hours841486# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Save water, Save Life, Protect the World with our love

Message

We hope that all marine life can be well protected and water resources can be properlyused. Through specific action plans such as beach cleaning, plastic reduction and watersaving, we appeal to everyone to take care of our earth together.

United thoughts toshare with the world

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gainedStudents concern the issue of ocean life and water
resource more, and start to think questions they
won't think before. It's good to see students have
known more about the world they live than before,
and start to change some habits in their life.
We also discussed many issues about water
resources and marine life during the research phase,the students were delighted to be able to present
these key elements on the murals. With that specificgoal, they also became more proactive and spent
many of their personal time to complete the mural.

Points for further improvement
The SDGs issue may be a little difficult toelementary students. In our class, children havelearned what's the problem over the world and theirhometown during the research, they also know how
to solve the problem, but sometimes they feel theproblem is too large to change the situation bythemselves, and became a little depressed. We willencourage students to focus on the action they able
to do now in the future.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
By research and discuss about the global issue, It’s excited to see the changes happening on thestudents care what’s happening in the world more students, and we were surprised of the enthusiasm
often, and willing to take action to make some demonstrated by students during the process ofchanges. They are even willing to spend time to international cooperation.
influence the people around them to work together Also, our partners have maintained close contact
for the earth.
and communication with us this year. We are very
They also feel excited and proud to attend the happy that students can really become good friends
international cooperative learning program. Most through exchange activities.
students are more confident in communicating in It’s a wonderful experience.
English.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

UNITE
Message ofJun.
Jul.
Aug.

Sep.
Oct.

Nov.

united thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

Dec.

Jan.
Feb.

What you did
We introduced each other's
schools and cities through theforum, and made students' selfintroductions with google slides,
which were also uploaded to theforum.
We discussed and decided what
SDG we want to dig in with ourpartner, and started to collectinformation and do our research.
We also made a report about SDG
6 and SDG 14, which include theglobal situation, Taiwan situation
and activities working on theseSDGs.
We shared each other’s result ofresearch by online meeting.
Students from Taiwan and Japan
also welcomed each other byperforming singing and dancing.
We've exchanged our ideas about
the theme of mural, and worked
the sketch out together by
Google Slides and the forum.

Your students’Subject
attitude/reflection
Students showed the positivity in
Communic
the process of making selfation andintroduction.
cooperatiStudents were curious about
on skills,
schools in Japan and were very
Culturehappy to know more about theirpartners abroad.
Students were serious incollecting information and making
reports.
They were very interested in thesituation of these topics in CommunicTaiwan and inspired them to take ation andfurther move in their lives.
cooperati
They felt excited of the online on skills,
meeting with Japanese partners, Researchand they also liked the dance
ability
performancebyJapanese
students.

We designed details and started
to draw outline on the mural.
We also discussed and prepared
the gifts for Japanese partner.

Students were looking forward
the reply from partner abroad,and felt satisfied to see theconcepts of each other could
combine perfectly.
Students learned to use theirexpertise to work together. They
not only worked hard but also
enjoyed the process of painting.

We finished the painting of muraland took a time-lapse film about
the process.
Lastly, we held an exhibition in
our school to show the result ofwonderful cooperation.
During the exhibition, we had anonline meeting with our partner toshare the joy of completement,
we even played games together!
We also took an interview to talkabout the exhibition and AICL
program.

Students felt really proud andexcited to present the mural infront of all the students, teachersand parents.
The experience gave students a
sense of achievement.
They also enjoyed the games
which played with Japanese
students in the online meeting.
They all became friends andthere’re laugh during themeeting. It’s an unforgettable
experience.

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Art# 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

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Active learningand action
Collaborating withdifferent people

Expressing in words,
in shape

Evaluation

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects

5

The theme of the mural is about the SDG 6 and 14, and we learned
more about the situation in different countries by research.
Also, we share a lot of information about our culture, food, holidays, etc.
to each other. Students were happy to communicate with kids of Japanand we also had great feedback from them.

55

By doing the field research and discussing about the situation of othercountries, we could train students to think independently and have
logical views. They learned to think from various angles. They also
discussed a lot about the which movements is helpful to improvecurrent problems.
The SDGs we chose were also relative to our own country closely.
This also promoted students to be more concerned about these issues,
be willing to take initiatives, and preach correct ideas to everyone.

5

Mural painting and cooperating with foreigners could make students
become more actively on their learning and action.
The forum was also helpful to the process of collaboration.

4

We used different ways to express our thoughts, including posters, films,reports and the mural.
But sometimes we felt a little distressed about how to present thediscussed concepts in the murals.