TREPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2021
Country/Region [ Turkey ]School[ Mimar Sinan Primary School ] Teacher [ Seda Altay ] Grade ( 2nd ) Member ( 20 )JP School [ Youkoudai Elementary School ]Teacher [ Satoshi Nakamura / Akiko Inoue ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
responsible
responsible consumption, saving, sustainable cities,
consumption
Art
Social Studies

Hours
15Painting

5hunger, poverty, gender equality

10# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Sustainable Cities and Communities, Responsible Consumption, Gender EqualityMessage

Consume less, share and treat equally for a sustainable planet

United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Thanks to these activities, my students becameaware of the problems of the city they live in. They
examined the dimensions of gender discrimination.
They had the opportunity to think about theimportance of consuming and sharing less anddeveloped ideas.

Points for further improvement
My students were a little younger. We had somedifficulties getting the subjects down to their level.
More concrete methods for children can be tried anddiscovered for future studies.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
My students realized that they are responsible to the I had the opportunity to scrutinize and reflect on theworld. They learned that we should consider other themes I chose with my students. I was inspired byliving things and people living in the world other than the work of our partner school.
us, and that they should consume less accordingly.
They thought there was no problem in their city.
Their perception of it has changed.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

June

SHARE

September
OctoberNovemberResearch onthe theme

UNITE
Message ofunited thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

DecemberJanuary

February

What you did
Your students’ attitude/reflection
Sharing via Artmile I shared an article introducing myForumschool, class and myself on the forum.
We had the opportunity to get to know
our partner school and its employees.
When I shared it with my students, they
were excited and happy.
Researchposters, Students researched and presented thePosterpreparation, SDGs in class.
Presentations
Sharing via Artmile
Forum
argument
Students were surprised to learn thatreflective writings
their city has a lot of problems as a
Sharing via Artmile result of their research. They wereForumenthusiastic and happy that they would
take responsibility for solving problems.
Discussion
The fact that this painting came from
Painting trials
Japan and its size was so big excited myPainting
students. They completed the picturewith happiness and joy.
Discussion
Reflective writings

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

MarchSubjectFreeActivities

FreeActivities

my students stated that they learned alot with these project activities, thatthey would produce solutions for ourworld starting from their own lives, andthat they would take responsibility. With
this project, their self-confidence andawareness increased.

SocialStudies

ArtArt# 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)

Evaluation

45Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
Although our languages and cultures are different, we carried out apleasant work with our partner from Japan for a more sustainable World.
We became aware of the problems of our cities. We learned about genderroles in two countries. We had productive intercultural exchanges.
Students questioned throughout this process. Why and what should I do
to fix the problems? focused on their questions. They criticized their own
actions. They increased their awareness

Active learningand action

4

Collaborating withdifferent people

4

Throughout the process, students researched, prepared posters,presented, questioned. They actively contributed to the study throughout
the process.
In this study, our students collaborated with their parents. We sharedwith our partner school.

Expressing in words,in shape5

We tried to use words effectively while doing our work in our class andsharing on the forum.