REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2022
Country/Region [ Mexico ]School[ CECyTEJ Campus Tonala ] Teacher [ Alma Rubi Soto Paez ] Grade (High School) Member (15)JP School [ Yatsushiro High School ]Teacher [ Hirotaka Inoue ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Practice English through research.
Practice English through presentation preparation.
EnglishPractice English through presentation to Japanese students.
Practice English through chat with Japanese students.
Painting

Learn painting through mixing colors with the art Teacher.

Hours5541010# Theme and Message of the muralTheme

Sustainable cities and communities / Climate action

Message

It is important for young students to have activities at school that motivate them tocontinue enjoying the local culture and customs and continue nurturing it.
It is also important for students to know that there are issues that affect the wholeworld no matter the frontiers.

United thoughts toshare with the world

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
1. They have become aware of world issues.
2. They have become aware of the importance ofkeeping culture alive.
3. They have become aware of the importance ofnation unity.
4. They have become aware of the need to learn otherlanguages and cultures.

Points for further improvement
1. We will try to generate more discussion in theforum.
2. We will try to generate long lasting friendships.
3. We will try to reflect the SDGs more in the future
painting.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
1. They were happy to have learned about Japanese 1. We are now aware that culture is not a limit toculture.
sharing and communicating.
2. They were grateful for having been able to see how 2. On the contrary, culture sharing brings worlds
Japanese students study and learn.
together.
3. They were happy they got to paint with materials 3. We were happy we got to see how our fellow
from Japan and share a unique piece of work.
teachers work and to be able to learn from eachother.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthRESEARCH
the theme

SHAREwith thepartner

June

Sept

What you did

Your students’attitude/reflection
Students researched SDGs.
Collaborative attitude.
Students prepared a presentation Happy attitude.
of our school to present to Eager to meet Japanese students.
Japanese students.
Students
researchedabout
Climate Action issues in Mexico.
Students took evidence of local
festivities like Tastoanes and Dayof the Dead to present toJapanese students.
Have a 1st video call to havestudents meet each other.

Have a 2nd video call to present
findings on climate issues andcultural issues.
Make a space in google drive toshare questions and answers andeveryone got a chance toparticipate
withteachersupervision.

Collaborative attitude.
Happy to share with Japanesestudents.

Subject

EnglishSocialScience
ICT’sEnglishSocialScience
ICT’s

UNITEthe thoughts

CREATEthe mural

APPRECIATE
the wholelearning

OctFebMarch

Share pictures of Tastoanes
festivities in our local context.
Share pictures of our field trip totechnology enterprise.
Share pictures of Day of the Deadevents in our school.
Agreetothemuralaccommodation and creation ofour sketch.
Receive the mural from Japan.
Present the mural to thestudents.
Begin designing the mural.
Paint the mural.
Present the mural to our school
during honors to the flag.
Hang the mural in our school forstudent appreciation.
Present the mural in a public
place in our nearby plaza.
Present the mural to our school
authorities.
School authorities prepared theshipping back to Japan.

Collaborative attitude.
Creative attitude.
Everyone helped with the sketch
and provided ideas.

Proud of presenting the final mural
to everyone.
Happy to have received credits forparticipating in this awesome
experience.

EnglishArt
Drawing

Painting

Proud of presenting the final mural
to our authorities.
Happy to have finished the mural.
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 effectEvaluation

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects

Cross-culturalunderstanding

5

Students and Teachers were able to see Japanese students throughvideo calls and share culture in a vivid manner.

Active learningand action

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Collaborating withdifferent people

Expressing in words,in shape4445

There was not enough time for me to have students research since I
had other classes to attend. I wish I had time during my day for thisactivity. I will try to accommodate for this in my next participation.
There was not enough time for me to have students research since I
had other classes to attend. I wish I had time during my day for thisactivity. I will try to accommodate for this in my next participation.
I think there should be a space in the platform where students could
interact with each other at certain times with teachers present, buteach with an account so that in can be like an instant blog.
Students were happy to receive a painting from Japanese students andbe able to complete the other half having one same piece from bothcountries.