REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2020
Country/Region [ Belarus ]School[ Gymnasium №33, Minsk ] Teacher [Yelena Sargsyan, Natallia Razdobreeva] Grade ( 7 ) Member (100)
JP School [ The Tsurugakehi Junior High School Atteched to the Tsurugakehi High School ]Teacher [ Miki Hanyu / Hisaco Imai ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
EnglishSocial Studies
RussianGeography

Healthy lifestyle
Everything in the world is connected. Clinical trials of vaccine will help tofight this virus in the nearest future.
We are responsible for ourselves, we should wear masks, keep socialdistance, use disinfectant

Hours
24
12
12

The consequences of human activities.

6

History

Pandemics, epidemics, disasters in the history of humankind.

6ARTPictures and posters on the topic.

12

ITC

Information and communications technology is the safest and quickest way
to collaborate and communicate nowadays.

6# Theme and Message of the muralTheme
We can live in much brighter future than now.
We believe that the day will come when our world will be opened to everyone again
Messageand we will have an opportunity to travel around the world like before.
United thoughts toshare with the world

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
People around the world was forced to face thevirus. We should do anything we can do for our
better future to live with it.
We know more about Japanese nature, culture andtraditions.

Points for further improvement
The situation with COVID-19 has only drawn
attention to remember and follow some simple
rules: lead a healthy lifestyle, walk in the open air,do sports. We are responsible for ourselves.
Moreover, the most important thing is thateverything in the world is connected. We
remember about the 17 Sustainable Development
Goals that have the power to create a betterworld by 2030.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
The future of our world depends on our activities We gained the experience of internationaland consciousness.
collaboration and co-teaching.
Students have improved their critical thinking on We managed to unite our views with our partners
the matter.
to express the message in our mural.
Collaborative learning with Japanese students We created interactive lessons to deepen ourencouraged us and activated the interactive knowledge on the problem.
learning.
# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroductio
nAprilMay

SHARE
Researchon thetheme

UNITE
Message ofunited
thoughts
CREATE
Mural
painting
APPRECIATE
Reflection/
AppreciationMay –Sep.

Oct.

Nov. –Feb.

Feb.March

What you didArtmile
International
project was introduced tothe students. The schedule
was created.
Searching the information
about the topic and thediscoveries.

Your students’ attitude/reflection
The students understood the aims ofthe project, our activities and theimportance of it.

The students exchanged
thoughts
throughthediscussions on the forum,
united both thoughts andmade a message to convey
to the world together.
The mural with themessage was designed.

Students combined both thoughts tocreate an integral mural.

Our students painted the second partof the mural. The whole picture wascompleted collaboratively with theJapanese friends.

ART
EnglishRussianSocialstudies

The students had a great
experience from the work.
The collaborative learning
was reflected. Children
evaluated themselves.

We appreciated greatly the project,out partners ‘work and ourpartnership.
We are grateful for the support andhelp.

ART
EnglishICT

Our students were encouraged tocreate the pictures to show theunderstanding of the topic. They
understoodthenecessityofcontribution from both partners.

Subject
EnglishSocialstudies
ICT
History
EnglishRussianART
ICT

EnglishART
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 effectCross-cultural
understanding

Evaluation5

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

5

Active learningand action

5

Collaborating withdifferent people

5

Expressing in words,
in shape

5Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
It was a great opportunity to feel our partner’s traditions, nature,and culture and of course, tell our Japanese friends about Belarusian
famous and remarkable places.
Our students managed to develop critical thinking thanks to theresearch on the topic, which was chosen to be developed.
Furthermore, this theme is relevance for everyone all over the world
as COVID – 19 is a global issue.
It is always exciting to broaden our horizons. Working in a teamunites people. Our teamwork made us closer. Active collaboration
improved our skills of active learning.
Collaborative learning is like brainstorm. It was a great experiencefor students from Belarus as well as for students from Japan. We
have the message that only together people can cope with any
problems they run into.
The cooperation on the theme COVID – 19 helped us to create thesketch and the mural, combining the ideas in images.