Session 3:

Providing warmth and structure

 RATE YOUR STRESS LEVEL

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5

Stress management exercise:

Smell the flowers Blow the candle

Review

• Stress leads to short-term reactions

such as punishment; it leads us to
focus on short-term goals instead of
long-term goals

• Reconnecting the emotional brain

with the thinking brain helps us
focus on long-term goals.
Providing
The tools
Warmth

Setting long-term
The plan
goals
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Looking Back

1. When you are stressed or struggling, who do you go to for

support? Is the person male or female?

2. What are the characteristics of that person that made you want
to go to them when you are stressed?

3. What do you feel when you have when you are with this person?
Summing Up

• When we are stressed or struggling we go to a person where

we feel safe and secure

• Someone who can help us keep calm

• Someone who can help us think better

Why is Warmth
Important?
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Summing Up

• Warmth is about feeling safe and respected

• We can’t learn when we feel anxious and afraid

• When we feel safe, we can relax, participate, and learn

 What is Warmth?

Ensuring that
Respecting
the students Being sensitive Showing
students’ Having empathy
feel to students’ students that
developmental with students’
emotionally academic and you care about
levels and feelings
and physically social needs them
views
safe
Warmth increases students…

• Cooperation
• Interest
• Motivation
• Love for Learning
 • Warmth helps us feel safe
Warmth is the • We gradually learn that we won’t
opposite of be hit physically or emotionally
feeling Fear • The fear goes away and we are
able to engage our thinking brain
• Warmth helps us learn better
 Fear makes it hard to learn

Fear of being Poor

It is hard to
hit physically performance
remember
or in test or
the lesson
emotionally academics
 Fear makes it hard to stay calm

Constant state
Emotional Brain of Fight or Flight,
Feeling unsafe and Thinking Freeze: Behavior
Brain disconnect problems
happen
 Warmth makes learning easier

Calm Regulated Fewer behavior

problems

Feeling safe from

being physically and
emotionally hurt
Receive information
Better academic
Think about it
Remember it performance
 In a warm and caring climate, students want to
cooperate with their teachers and each other.

Warmth encourages short-term cooperation and

teaches long-term values.
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• Your learner cracked a joke in the middle of online class, and you posted an
LoL or a laughing emoji.

• You told your class you will give out a prize to the learner who will get a
perfect score in your quiz.

• You use various emojis to appreciate your learner’s hard work.

• You know which learners in your class like group work and which ones
individual work.

• After a destructive typhoon hit your learner’s community, you did not
mention anything about it the following day.
 How do you provide
Warmth to your learners
in the current situation of
blended learning?

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Create a warm classroom environment by…

• Getting to know your learners as people

and where they are from

• Encouraging them when they are having

difficulty

• Recognizing their efforts and successes

• Supporting them when they are facing

challenges in their lives
 Create a warm classroom environment by…

• Telling them that you believe in them

• Looking at things from their point of view

• Sharing humor with them, having fun with

them

• Listening to them

• Showing them that they are respected even

when they make mistakes
 “Kung mahal mo yung mga estudyante mo, they will learn more. If
you show love, they are also going to show their love to you. Kung
ano man din ang ibigay mo sa kanila, ‘yun din ang ibabalik nila. Kaya
talagang I believe na love and concern, ‘yun talaga ang number one
na makaka-motivate sa kanila sa kanilang pag-aaral.”

– Grade 5 Teacher at Jose C. Catolico Elementary School, Gen. Santos City

Paper Folding
2
Providing Providing
The tools
Warmth Structure

Setting long-term
The plan
goals
 Why is
Structure Important?
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 What is Structure?

Providing Encouraging
Giving clear Supporting
Being a opportunities students’ Problem
information and helping
positive role for students own solving
and students to
model to fix their thoughts and together
explanations succeed
mistakes ideas
Structure = Scaffolding

What the child could

understand with help

Scaffolding
What the child
understands now
 It’s hard to learn
without Structure

Inadequate
Weak
information and Academic failure
understanding
scaffolding
 It’s hard to be motivated
without Structure

Academic
failure
Inadequate
Weak
information and
understanding
scaffolding
Self-blame
Low motivation
 It’s hard to stay calm
without Structure

Academic failure
Inadequate Weak
information and understanding
scaffolding Frustration, Resentment
Aggression or other Stress
Response
 Structure makes it easier to learn,
to be motivated, and to be calm

Academic success
Clear
Deeper
communication
understanding
and scaffolding Increased interest, Positive
self-image, High
motivation Low stress
 Structure

• Helps children learn what is important

• Helps them understand their mistakes
and how to fix them
• Gives them information needed to
succeed next time
• Gives them tools for solving problems
when they are on their own
• Shows them how to work out
disagreements with other people in a
constructive, non-violent way
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• For the nth time, your learner submits his weekly work sheets late
so you said that if he submits his work late again next time, you
will report his behavior to his parents.

• You saw your learner asking another learner a question in the

comment box during your online. You inform them that they can
ask their questions about the lesson in the comment box so you
can answer them.
Is this Structure?

• You notice that your female senior high school student says that she
always misses your lectures over the radio because her boyfriend visits
her at home during that time. You told her that she may not finish high
school and get pregnant if she continued to spend time with her
boyfriend.

• After each quiz, you tell your class which items they got wrong and the
reason for the correct answer.

• At the beginning of the school year, you tell your class what behavior
you expect from them. You also ask them to write in the comment box
during your online class the characteristics of a good teacher.
 How do you provide
Structure to your
learners in the current
situation?
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Provide structure for students by…

• Involving them in setting rules for the class

• Helping students find ways to fix their
mistakes in a way that helps them to learn
• Explaining the reason rules
• Being consistent, but also fair and flexible
• Controlling your anger
• Avoiding threats and punishments
Provide structure for students by…

• Explaining your point of view and then listening to the students’ point of
view

• Teaching them about the effects of their actions on other people

• Giving them the information they need to make good decisions

• Talking with them and learning about the challenges in their lives

• Acting as a positive role model and guide

“Consistent ka lang sa pag-implement ng rules mo dito sa loob
ng classroom – ‘Kapag dito sa loob ng classroom, you should
cooperate with each other. Kailangan ‘pag lesson na natin
makinig na tayo.”
- Grade 5 Teacher at Jose C. Catolico Elementary School, Gen. Santos City
 Providing
Warmth and
Structure Together
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How do you provide Warmth
and Structure in this situation?

Your Grade 7 learners have just returned

their weekly modules for you to correct. You
find that two of your learners gave exactly
the same answers to your weekly
assessment questions.
 How do you provide Warmth
and Structure in this situation?

Your Grade 2 learner comes from a very

poor family. Her parents are supportive
but with low educational attainment,
and as such cannot support her in
terms of her academic needs. You want
to instill in her good study habits and
develop independent learning.
How do you provide Warmth
and Structure in this situation?

Your see that your Grade 11 learner is

getting upset because his
participation in your online class is
constantly interrupted by poor
internet connection on his side. In his
frustration, he just left the class
ahead of time.
 Warmth = Safety
Structure = Information
 Support for Parents

• Talk to them about what they do to show their

love for their children.
• Help them focus more on supporting their child’s
efforts to learn rather than correct answers or
high grades.
• Help them to be sensitive to possible negative
reactions to the current crisis, such as sadness or
hopelessness.
• Refer them to community resources that can
respond to their child’s needs.
 Support for Parents

• Help parents organize a daily routine for

their children, with time for daily chores,
school work, play and leisure, and time with
the family.

• Let them know that punishment will not

help children work harder, it is clear and
respectful communication and guidance
that can motivate them.
Session Evaluation
https://tinyurl.com/PDETeval3
“I did then what
I knew how to do. Now
what I know better, I do
better.”
- Maya Angelou
 Good Luck!
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Wilma Bañaga: Wilma.Banaga@savethechildren.org

Jerly Villanada: Jerly.Villanada@savethechildren.org
PDET Facilitators

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