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Debate on motions
Creating a
Gender-Responsive
Learning
Environment
Mary Grace D. Catacutan
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Debate on motions

“Male teachers are

more strict than female
teachers.”

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

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Debate on motions
“Female teachers do more
craft works with students
than male teachers.”

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

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“Men are more likely to
teach Science and Math
than women.”

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

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Debate on motions

“Boys listen better to a

male teacher.”

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

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Debate on motions

“Boys are more difficult to

handle than girls in class.”

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

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Debate on motions

“Male teachers do not

understand girls.”

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

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Debate on motions

“Female teachers do not

understand boys.”

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

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Debate on motions

“It’s good to separate the

boys and the girls in the
classroom.

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What is GENDER?
Gender refers to
socially determined
roles and relations
between males and
females

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

Why is Gender-responsive Abstraction
teaching important?

“we are making a commitment to value and

nurture the potential of every student”
MORE PROSPEROUS & SUSTAINABLE
COMMUNITIES

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

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? How do we make
our learning
?
environment a
gender-

? ?
responsive?

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom? Classroom set-up
Classroom set up that mixes girls and boys.
Classroom set up that enhances participation of both girls and boys.
Arrangement of the desks that encourages girls to speak out and overcome their shyness.
Stools in laboratories that are appropriate in size and shape
Fixtures and visual aids on the walls that send gender responsive messages.
Appropriate shelf heights in the libraries.
Appropriate size, shape and weight of desks and chairs.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom? Classroom set-up
Classroom set up that mixes girls and boys.

Classroom set up that enhances

participation of both girls and boys.
Arrangement of the desks that encourages girls to speak out and overcome their shyness.
Stools in laboratories that are appropriate in size and shape
Fixtures and visual aids on the walls that send gender responsive messages.
Appropriate shelf heights in the libraries.
Appropriate size, shape and weight of desks and chairs.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom? Classroom set-up
Classroom set up that mixes girls and boys.
Classroom set up that enhances participation of both girls and boys.

Arrangement of the desks that

encourages girls to speak out and
overcome their shyness.
Stools in laboratories that are appropriate in size and shape
Fixtures and visual aids on the walls that send gender responsive messages.
Appropriate shelf heights in the libraries.
Appropriate size, shape and weight of desks and chairs.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom? Classroom set-up
Classroom set up that mixes girls and boys.
Classroom set up that enhances participation of both girls and boys.
Arrangement of the desks that encourages girls to speak out and overcome their shyness.

Stools in laboratories that are

appropriate in size and shape
Fixtures and visual aids on the walls that send gender responsive messages.
Appropriate shelf heights in the libraries.
Appropriate size, shape and weight of desks and chairs.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom? Classroom set-up
Classroom set up that mixes girls and boys.
Classroom set up that enhances participation of both girls and boys.
Arrangement of the desks that encourages girls to speak out and overcome their shyness.
Stools in laboratories that are appropriate in size and shape

Fixtures and visual aids on the walls that

send gender responsive messages.
Appropriate shelf heights in the libraries.
Appropriate size, shape and weight of desks and chairs.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom? Classroom set-up
Classroom set up that mixes girls and boys.
Classroom set up that enhances participation of both girls and boys.
Arrangement of the desks that encourages girls to speak out and overcome their shyness.
Stools in laboratories that are appropriate in size and shape
Fixtures and visual aids on the walls that send gender responsive messages.

Appropriate shelf heights in the libraries.

Appropriate size, shape and weight of desks and chairs.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom? Classroom set-up
Classroom set up that mixes girls and boys.
Classroom set up that enhances participation of both girls and boys.
Arrangement of the desks that encourages girls to speak out and overcome their shyness.
Stools in laboratories that are appropriate in size and shape
Fixtures and visual aids on the walls that send gender responsive messages.
Appropriate shelf heights in the libraries.

Appropriate size, shape and weight of

desks and chairs.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom?
Classroom Participation
□ Use a box to randomly draw names to
encourage equal participation.
□ Alternate choice of respondents by gender
□ Award points for participation to groups and individuals as an incentive for broader participation.
□ Rotate roles for boys and girls in groups
□ Move around the room and engage girls and boys by questioning them about what they are learning.
□ Create a classroom seating arrangement so girls and boys are working together.
□ Trust that boys and girls have the same potential to learn.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom?
Classroom Participation
□ Use a box to randomly draw names to encourage equal participation.

□ Alternate choice of respondents by

gender
□ Award points for participation to groups and individuals as an incentive for broader participation.
□ Rotate roles for boys and girls in groups
□ Move around the room and engage girls and boys by questioning them about what they are learning.
□ Create a classroom seating arrangement so girls and boys are working together.
□ Trust that boys and girls have the same potential to learn.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom?
Classroom Participation
□ Use a box to randomly draw names to encourage equal participation.
□ Alternate choice of respondents by gender

□ Award points for participation to groups

and individuals as an incentive for
broader participation.
□ Rotate roles for boys and girls in groups
□ Move around the room and engage girls and boys by questioning them about what they are learning.
□ Create a classroom seating arrangement so girls and boys are working together.
□ Trust that boys and girls have the same potential to learn.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom?
Classroom Participation
□ Use a box to randomly draw names to encourage equal participation.
□ Alternate choice of respondents by gender
□ Award points for participation to groups and individuals as an incentive for broader participation.

□ Rotate roles for boys and girls in groups

□ Move around the room and engage girls and boys by questioning them about what they are learning.
□ Create a classroom seating arrangement so girls and boys are working together.
□ Trust that boys and girls have the same potential to learn.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom?
Classroom Participation
□ Use a box to randomly draw names to encourage equal participation.
□ Alternate choice of respondents by gender
□ Award points for participation to groups and individuals as an incentive for broader participation.
□ Rotate roles for boys and girls in groups

□ Move around the room and engage

girls and boys by questioning them about
what they are learning.
□ Create a classroom seating arrangement so girls and boys are working together.
□ Trust that boys and girls have the same potential to learn.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom?
Classroom Participation
□ Use a box to randomly draw names to encourage equal participation.
□ Alternate choice of respondents by gender
□ Award points for participation to groups and individuals as an incentive for broader participation.
□ Rotate roles for boys and girls in groups
□ Move around the room and engage girls and boys by questioning them about what they are learning.

□ Create a classroom seating

arrangement so girls and boys are
working together.
□ Trust that boys and girls have the same potential to learn.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom?
Classroom Participation
□ Use a box to randomly draw names to encourage equal participation.
□ Alternate choice of respondents by gender
□ Award points for participation to groups and individuals as an incentive for broader participation.
□ Rotate roles for boys and girls in groups
□ Move around the room and engage girls and boys by questioning them about what they are learning.
□ Create a classroom seating arrangement so girls and boys are working together.

□ Trust that boys and girls have the same

potential to learn.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom?
Classroom Culture
□ Have girls-only and boys-only
classroom meetings
□ Make sure girls and boys feel comfortable about visiting the restroom when needed.
□ Set up a “Gender-Friendly Ideas” box where students can put ideas about how to be more gender friendly in the classroom.
□ Talk about boys’ and girls’ rights in the classroom, so that both genders understand they have the same rights .
□ Pay attention to “teachable moments” and respond in a way that is encouraging to both genders.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom?
Classroom Culture
□ Have girls-only and boys-only classroom meetings

□ Make sure girls and boys feel

comfortable about visiting the restroom
when needed.
□ Set up a “Gender-Friendly Ideas” box where students can put ideas about how to be more gender friendly in the classroom.
□ Talk about boys’ and girls’ rights in the classroom, so that both genders understand they have the same rights .
□ Pay attention to “teachable moments” and respond in a way that is encouraging to both genders.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom?
Classroom Culture
□ Have girls-only and boys-only classroom meetings
□ Make sure girls and boys feel comfortable about visiting the restroom when needed.

□ Set up a “Gender-Friendly Ideas” box

where students can put ideas about how
to be more gender friendly in the
classroom.
□ Talk about boys’ and girls’ rights in the classroom, so that both genders understand they have the same rights .
□ Pay attention to “teachable moments” and respond in a way that is encouraging to both genders.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom?
Classroom Culture
□ Have girls-only and boys-only classroom meetings
□ Make sure girls and boys feel comfortable about visiting the restroom when needed.
□ Set up a “Gender-Friendly Ideas” box where students can put ideas about how to be more gender friendly in the classroom.

□ Talk about boys’ and girls’ rights in the

classroom, so that both genders
understand they have the same rights .
□ Pay attention to “teachable moments” and respond in a way that is encouraging to both genders.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive is Abstraction
my classroom?
Classroom Culture
□ Have girls-only and boys-only classroom meetings
□ Make sure girls and boys feel comfortable about visiting the restroom when needed.
□ Set up a “Gender-Friendly Ideas” box where students can put ideas about how to be more gender friendly in the classroom.
□ Talk about boys’ and girls’ rights in the classroom, so that both genders understand they have the same rights .

□ Pay attention to “teachable moments”

and respond in a way that is encouraging
to both genders.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

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?
How gender-sensitive
is my classroom?

How do we make
our learning
environment a
gender-

? ?
responsive?

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive are my Abstraction
textbooks & learning materials?

• Review textbook language in terms of

questions, examples, and illustrations
• Revise curriculum to ensure equal representation of females and males .
• Assign students to identify a famous person (female for boys and male for girls) and have them write a biography to present in class.
• When citing examples in classroom discussions, be intentional with your gender-based pronoun use.
• Highlight influential females and males who have made distinct contributions to their fields.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive are my Abstraction
textbooks & learning materials?
• Review textbook language in terms of questions, examples, and illustrations

•Revise curriculum to ensure equal

representation of females and males.
• Assign students to identify a famous person (female for boys and male for girls) and have them write a biography to present in class.
• When citing examples in classroom discussions, be intentional with your gender-based pronoun use.
• Highlight influential females and males who have made distinct contributions to their fields.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive are my Abstraction
textbooks & learning materials?
• Review textbook language in terms of questions, examples, and illustrations
• Revise curriculum to ensure equal representation of females and males.

• Assign students to identify a famous

person (female for boys and male for girls)
and have them write a biography to
present in class .
• When citing examples in classroom discussions, be intentional with your gender-based pronoun use.
• Highlight influential females and males who have made distinct contributions to their fields.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive are my Abstraction
textbooks & learning materials?
• Review textbook language in terms of questions, examples, and illustrations
• Revise curriculum to ensure equal representation of females and males.
• Assign students to identify a famous person (female for boys and male for girls) and have them write a biography to present in class.

• When citing examples in classroom

discussions, be intentional with your
gender-based pronoun use.
• Highlight influential females and males who have made distinct contributions to their fields.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How gender-sensitive are my Abstraction
textbooks & learning materials?
• Review textbook language in terms of questions, examples, and illustrations
• Revise curriculum to ensure equal representation of females and males.
• Assign students to identify a famous person (female for boys and male for girls) and have them write a biography to present in class.
• When citing examples in classroom discussions, be intentional with your gender-based pronoun use.

• Highlight influential females and males

who have made distinct contributions to
their fields.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

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How gender-sensitive
How gender-sensitive
are my textbooks &
is my
learning
classroom?
materials?
How do we make
our learning
environment a
gender-

? ?
responsive?

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How do I create a gender- Abstraction
sensitive lesson plan?

• Utilizing male and female examples.

• Classroom visitors of different genders who are topical experts.
• Including authors and literature subjects for both genders.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How do I create a gender- Abstraction
sensitive lesson plan?
• Utilizing male and female examples.

• Classroom visitors of different genders

who are topical experts.
• Including authors and literature subjects for both genders.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How do I create a gender- Abstraction
sensitive lesson plan?
• Utilizing male and female examples.
• Classroom visitors of different genders who are topical experts.

• Including authors and literature subjects

for both genders.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 Abstraction

How gender-sensitive
How gender-sensitive
are my textbooks &
is my
learning
classroom?
materials?
How do we make
our learning
environment a
gender-

?
responsive?
How do I
create a gender-
sensitive lesson plan?

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How can i help my school and Abstraction
community become gender-
responsive?
Engaging Parents
• Invite parents to attend a school career
fair
• Arrange seminars for parents on gender equity in collaboration with school counselors.
• Hold teacher-parent meetings
• Arrange focus-group discussions with successful female leaders, and invite boys and girls and their parents to attend.
• Collaborate with parents and teachers to provide special assistance for girls who may face early marriage or pregnancy.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How can I help my school and Abstraction
community become gender-
responsive?
Engaging Parents
• Invite parents to attend a school career fair

• Arrange seminars for parents on gender

equity in collaboration with school
counselors.
• Hold teacher-parent meetings
• Arrange focus-group discussions with successful female leaders, and invite boys and girls and their parents to attend.
• Collaborate with parents and teachers to provide special assistance for girls who may face early marriage or pregnancy.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How can I help my school and Abstraction
community become gender-
responsive?
Engaging Parents
• Invite parents to attend a school career fair
• Arrange seminars for parents on gender equity in collaboration with school counselors.

• Hold teacher-parent meetings

• Arrange focus-group discussions with successful female leaders, and invite boys and girls and their parents to attend.
• Collaborate with parents and teachers to provide special assistance for girls who may face early marriage or pregnancy.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How can I help my school and Abstraction
community become gender-
responsive?
Engaging Parents
• Invite parents to attend a school career fair
• Arrange seminars for parents on gender equity in collaboration with school counselors.
• Hold teacher-parent meetings

• Arrange focus-group discussions with

successful leaders, and invite boys and
girls and their parents to attend.
• Collaborate with parents and teachers to provide special assistance for girls who may face early marriage or pregnancy.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How can I help my school and Abstraction
community become gender-
responsive?
Engaging Parents
• Invite parents to attend a school career fair
• Arrange seminars for parents on gender equity in collaboration with school counselors.
• Hold teacher-parent meetings
• Arrange focus-group discussions with successful female leaders, and invite boys and girls and their parents to attend.

• Collaborate with parents and teachers

to provide special assistance for girls who
may face early marriage or pregnancy .

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How can I help my school and Abstraction
community become gender-
responsive? Gaining
Community Support
• Partner with community organizations
and invite male and female role models
to speak with students.
• Conduct trainings for staff and school administrators.
• Use local media to gain support for gender equality.
• Partner with local non-governmental organizations or community associations on projects aimed at training students.
• Host an annual Gender and Development seminar-workshop.
• Partner with local community members to train boys and girls.
• Engage with faith-based leaders to support community discussion about issues facing the community, such as gender-based violence or early marriage.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How can I help my school and Abstraction
community become gender-
responsive? Gaining
Community Support
• Partner with community organizations and invite male and female role models to speak with students.

• Conduct trainings for staff and school

administrators.
• Use local media to gain support for gender equality.
• Partner with local non-governmental organizations or community associations on projects aimed at training students.
• Host an annual Gender and Development seminar-workshop.
• Partner with local community members to train boys and girls.
• Engage with faith-based leaders to support community discussion about issues facing the community, such as gender-based violence or early marriage.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How can I help my school and Abstraction
community become gender-
responsive? Gaining
Community Support
• Partner with community organizations and invite male and female role models to speak with students.
• Conduct trainings for staff and school administrators.

• Use local media to gain support for

gender equality.
• Partner with local non-governmental organizations or community associations on projects aimed at training students.
• Host an annual Gender and Development seminar-workshop.
• Partner with local community members to train boys and girls.
• Engage with faith-based leaders to support community discussion about issues facing the community, such as gender-based violence or early marriage.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How can I help my school and Abstraction
community become gender-
responsive? Gaining
Community Support
• Partner with community organizations and invite male and female role models to speak with students.
• Conduct trainings for staff and school administrators.
• Use local media to gain support for gender equality.

• Partner with local non-governmental

organizations or community associations
on projects aimed at training students.
• Host an annual Gender and Development seminar-workshop.
• Partner with local community members to train boys and girls.
• Engage with faith-based leaders to support community discussion about issues facing the community, such as gender-based violence or early marriage.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How can I help my school and Abstraction
community become gender-
responsive? Gaining
Community Support
• Partner with community organizations and invite male and female role models to speak with students.
• Conduct trainings for staff and school administrators.
• Use local media to gain support for gender equality.
• Partner with local non-governmental organizations or community associations on projects aimed at training students.

• Host an annual Gender and

Development seminar-workshop.
• Partner with local community members to train boys and girls.
• Engage with faith-based leaders to support community discussion about issues facing the community, such as gender-based violence or early marriage.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How can I help my school and Abstraction
community become gender-
responsive? Gaining
Community Support
• Partner with community organizations and invite male and female role models to speak with students.
• Conduct trainings for staff and school administrators.
• Use local media to gain support for gender equality.
• Partner with local non-governmental organizations or community associations on projects aimed at training students.
• Host an annual Gender and Development seminar-workshop.

• Partner with local community members

to train boys and girls.
• Engage with faith-based leaders to support community discussion about issues facing the community, such as gender-based violence or early marriage.

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 How can I help my school and Abstraction
community become gender-
responsive? Gaining
Community Support
• Partner with community organizations and invite male and female role models to speak with students.
• Conduct trainings for staff and school administrators.
• Use local media to gain support for gender equality.
• Partner with local non-governmental organizations or community associations on projects aimed at training students.
• Host an annual Gender and Development seminar-workshop.
• Partner with local community members to train boys and girls.

• Engage with faith-based leaders to support

community discussion about issues facing the
community, such as gender-based violence or early
marriage .

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 Abstraction

How gender-sensitive
How gender-sensitive
are my textbooks &
is my
learning
classroom?
materials?
How do we make
our learning
environment a
gender-
responsive? How
How do I can I
create a gender- help my school and
sensitive lesson plan? community become
gender-responsive?

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 APPlication

“What are some problems with the

physical and social dimensions of the
learning environment? How could they
be improved with regard to promoting
gender equality?”

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment

 APPlication

“GENDER
RESOLUTION”

Creating a Gender -Responsive Learning Environment