REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2022
Country/Region [ Mexico ]School[ Colegio Ingles Americano ] Teacher [ Diana Torres ] Grade ( 7-9 ) Member ( 25 )JP School [ Kizu-Minami Junior High School ] Teacher [ Mami Miyahara ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Model UnitedOnce a week we assigned a class to work on the mural.
Nations

Hours
20# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Peace and Justice Strong institutions

Message

Peace starts with ourselves.
Peace begins where war ends.

United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
My students learned about the Japanese culture
regarding peace: the situation Japan faced after thebombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
They also learned the importance of educating new
generations in communicating instead of fighting.

Points for further improvement
We would like to have video calls some time during
the project.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
My students were impressed how well painted the I found leadership in my students and learned thatmural was. They got to know about their history they could participate in this project guiding theirbackground and were interested in getting to know classmates and accomplishing the mural painting.
the Japanese culture deeper.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonth
MEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

UNITE
Message ofWhat you did
I introduced the objective of
the project to all the Jr. Highstudents and waited until
the elective classes started
in October.

Your students’ attitude/reflection
They were very motivated to start theproject.

Oct.

The students did research
about peace and made someposters.

They loved to share these posters withthe partner and include them as part ofthe brainstorming for the mural design.
They read the messages the Japanese
students shared through the forum.

Nov.

I collected the brainstorming
ideas and created amessage.

Jan.
Feb.

I got the mural and got sohappy the drawing wastraced already.

My students wanted to see the muraland got so happy with the presents theyreceived.

I gathered with the team(students, teachers andcoordinators) to analyze ourmural and record videos andtake some pictures.

The students were so proud and happyof accomplishing this goal.

Sep.
Oct.

united thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

Mar.

Subject
ModelUnited
Nations

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Nations# 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

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
We could easily understand the projects through the forum and emails.

Cross-cultural
understanding

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Active learningand action

555

Collaborating withdifferent people

5

Expressing in words,in shape5

Mami helped me understand the process and the objective by emails
and forum.

Our Model UN class was meaningful and interesting by adding thisincredible project.

It´s the second time I´m in touch with another school collaborating. I
loved it.

My students were creative. We collaborated in creating this mural.