MODULE 3:

THE GMRC TEACHER

AS AN AGENT OF
NATION-BUILDING AND
SUSTAINABLE
ENVIRONMENT
 LESSON 1
CARING AND SHARING
FOR THE EARTH
 Lesson 1A.
BE COMPASSIONATE AND
DO NO HARM
As a mother loves her one and
only child, so shall you love the
whole humanity.
- The Buddha
Compassion refers to that quality which
encompasses non- violence, kindness,
empathy and equanimity in the highest
and purest form.
 Four Basic Forms of Compassion

Non-Violence
 Non-violence is an integral active quality in
compassionate living.

 It means to abstain from all violent acts

and motives. In a conflict, to be non-violent

1 does not mean that you submit yourself to

unjust causes.
 Four Basic Forms of Compassion

Non-Violence
Principles of Non - Violence:
Hatred cannot be conquered by hatred.
Hatred can only be conquered by
1 compassion.
- Lord Buddha

1 2
If somebody slaps you on the left cheek
turn your right cheek also.
- Jesus Christ
 Four Basic Forms of Compassion

Non-Violence
Principles of Non - Violence:

I respond to those who do well to me by

goodness. I also respond to those who
3 do evil to me by goodness.

1 - Lao Tzu
 Four Basic Forms of Compassion

Non-Violence
Principles of Non - Violence:

If someone lives a life of non-violence, he

need not perform other religious acts
because non-violent living itself is the
4 highest form of being religious.

1 - Thirukkural, The Tamil Instructional

Book of Poetry
 Four Basic Forms of Compassion

Non-Violence
Principles of Non - Violence:

There is no such powerful weapon than

Compassion.
5
- Mahatma Gandhi

1
 Four Basic Forms of Compassion

Kindness
 This is the state of mind that motivates a
person to help and serve those who suffer.

 Kindness transcends the ego that seeks

reward, profit and benefits in return.

2  You can be kind in all your responses to other

people by the way you think, talk and behave.
 Four Basic Forms of Compassion

Empathy
 Empathy is an effective response of
concern and tenderness to the joys and
suffering in others.

 With empathy you share the other person's

3 feelings and experience it as if you have

entered into that person's inner world.
 Four Basic Forms of Compassion

Equanimity
 Equanimity means maintaining a detached
sense of calmness in mind and temper, in
face of stressful and provocative situations
in life.

4  It also includes being large hearted and

forgiving.
 Four Basic Forms of Compassion

Equanimity
The most effective way of fostering compassion in children
is to provide opportunities to experience it through action.
Such actions are:

 Understanding (others)  Caring/consoling/

 Feeling (for) counselling/comforting
 Providing  Listening

4 support/helping/serving  Respecting
 Tolerating  Giving
 Expressing warmth  Being friendly
 Loving
 LESSON 1B.
CARE FOR THE PLANET

The earth does not belong to us;

we belong to earth.
- Red Indian Chief Seattle
 Educating to care for the planet
Children need to understand the consequences of
damages we do to the earth because they are the future
citizens.
 Global warming  Loss of forest
 Epidemics/pandemics  Scarcity of drinking
 Ever increasing poverty water
 Population growth  Extinction of species
 Famines, cyclones  Chemical poisoning of
 Soil erosion fertile soil
 Loss of forest  Toxic wastes
Over Fishing Air
Pollution
 LESSON 2
BECOMING AN
INSTRUMENT OF PEACE
 Lesson 2A.
DISCOVER PEACE
The best and most beautiful things
in the world cannot be seen or even
touched. They must be felt with the
heart.
- Helen Keller
Peace as Resolution of
Inner Conflict
 Kurt Lewin showed that we have three
basic types of inner conflicts.

1 Approach approach conflict

2 Avoidance - avoidance conflict

3 Approach negative conflict

 How can we help children to resolve
their inner conflicts?

 Self-Knowledge

 Spiritual Needs

 Practicing Awareness
Varied Ways on How to Meditate:
 Take the class out to an open air or a quiet place. Let them sit
quietly and listen to the sounds in the environment. This helps
to develop awareness towards the surroundings.
 Make them sit quietly and repeat in mind "I am a peaceful
soul." Watch a tree with a silent mind.
 Sit quietly and concentrate on breathing in and out. Look at a
flower and concentrate on it.
 Imagine a beautiful natural scene.
 Imagine a trip in a strange land or garden.
 Sit quietly and experience the feeling of a noble human quality,
such as kindness and joy.
 Lesson 2B.
RESOLVE CONFLICT NON-VIOLENTLY
Being willing to resolve a problem does not mean
you aren't right. It means you give up making the
other person wrong, by wiping the slate clean and
make a fresh start with each other.

- Helena Cornelius and Shoshana Faire

Conflict is everywhere.
It is a part of life.
Definition
"What is a conflict?"
• a difference of opinion,
• a clash of wants,
• a situation that arises from a disagreement,
• between two persons or several persons,
• a broken relationship and
• a vicious competition against one another.
Causes
Why do people get into conflicts?
• Commodities at stake, e.g. object, land, money;
• Opportunities at stake, e.g. opportunity for gain,
privileges;
• Principles and values at stake, c.g. religious beliefs,
ideologies, cultural values;
• Territory at stake, e.g. house, land, physical space,
road, status and
• Relationship at stake, e.g. trust, promise, personality
clashes.
 Conflict "is a situation in which two or
more human beings desire goals, to which
they perceive as being obtainable by one
or the other but not both."

- Ross Stinger (1967)

According to the definition, a conflict is made
of three components.
1. Situation where the conflicting parties view each
other as competitors, or having mutually
competitive interests or wants;

2. Attitudes, e.g. leading to hostility and frustration

and

3. Behavior, e.g. threatening, descriptive, egoistic,

opposing, withdrawing acts.
Can conflicts be
constructive?
 Conflict become destructive simply
because of the lack of skills in handling
them.
In a constructive approach to conflict resolution:

 Control your negative emotions.

 Listen actively.
 Speak efficiently.
 Deal with the other, as a person with a problem, need and
human reaction.
 Face the issue directly and precisely.
 Separate the problem from the person and adopt a problem-
solving approach. Show understanding and be understood.
 Be willing to change your position in face of facts and reason.
 Use a sense of humor.
 Generate alternatives acceptable to both you and the other
person.
 Speak to the point.
 Use interpersonal skills.
 Be persistent.
 Steps in Conflict Resolution

There are four possible solutions to any conflict.

Let's name the two parties in a conflict as A and B. The
possibilities are:
A B
1 WIN DEFEAT
2 DEFEAT WIN
3 DEFEAT DEFEAT
4 WIN WIN
In a conflict, the solution is reached by
undergoing three basic stages:

1 Confrontation

2 Negotiation

3 Implementation
However it is easy to discuss the
problem openly at confrontation stage.
1. Define the problem in terms of needs of
the people involved.
2. Agree with the definition of problem with
the other party
3. Brain storm possible solutions for both.
4. Select the best solution for both.
5. Implement solution.
6. Evaluate Implementation
 Children's world of conflict
Conflicts at homes

 Jealousies among the brothers and sisters, by:

 - Comparing with each other on what they get from parents.
 - Problems of equal treatment, privileges and
 - Personal rights.
- Problems arising from carrying out their responsibilities.
 Inability to deal with anger, negative comments violence.
 Deprivation of freedom to play, meet friends and express
oneself.
 Deprivation of parents, love.
 Deprivation of physiological needs, e.g. food, proper shelter,
owing to low income.
 Problems with elder brothers or bigger kids in the
neighborhood.
 Drunkenness of father disturbing peace at home.
 Instance of child abuse, e.g. severe punishment.

 Children's world of conflict
Conflicts in school

 Name calling
 Being snubbed/being teased
 False accusations
 Fear of being unprepared, e.g. not having a pencil, not
ready with homework, not having read the lesson
 Misunderstanding by teachers. Negative remarks by
teachers. Being cheated by a peer.
 Being deprived of opportunity to participate in activities
that the child likes
 Inability to buy things that the school requests.
 Physiological problems, e.g. hunger, low energy,
Exclusion by peers.
 LESSON 3
CALL FOR FILIPINO
PATRIOTISM
 Lesson 3A.
"RESPECT FOR HUMAN DIGNITY"
A landmark papal encyclical, Pacem in Terris, has also declared that
peace would be built if citizens "apply themselves seriously to
respecting the rights of others and discharging their own duties"
(Pope John XXIII, 1963).

In Islam, it is believed that all human beings have the right to life at
conception, and after birth, a right to full opportunities to lead a
rewarding and satisfying life (Mahmood- Abedin, in Mische and
Merkling. (eds.), 2001).
 Human rights can be broadly
defined as those rights which
human beings are entitled to which
no one can deprive them of.
 Lesson 3A.
The Declaration of the Universal Human
"RESPECT
Rights by theFOR
UnitedHUMAN DIGNITY"
Nations Organization
is a moral victory of mankind all cultures.
"All human beings are born free and equal
indignity and rights. They are endowed with
reason and conscience and should act
towards one another in a spirit of
brotherhood."
 Developing consciousness of rights
is important in that they are strong
factors in peace.
 Education of Human Rights
Learning human rights should begin with
understanding them in daily experiences of the
personal life of children. For instance:
 Standing in a queue for one's turn
 Keeping promises
 Returning a debt in time
 Helping the injured and sick
 Keeping the public places clean
 Not encroaching on others' property
 Lesson 3A.
"RESPECT FOR HUMAN DIGNITY"
We can make the new world if we want
We can make the new world if we all try
What we do is to make it show
And the old world's got to go
We can make the new world and we will

- From a song by P.J. Hoffman

 Citizenship Attitude Building

1 Patriotism
2 Give Back to the Community

3 Be a Productive Member of Society

4 Take part in Social Issues

5 Vote
 Citizenship Attitude Building

6 Mentor Someone
7 Cultivate Your Skills and Talents

8 Keep Your Home in Order

9 Follow the Law
 Citizenship Attitude Building

10 Treat others with Respect

11 Stand up to Injustice

12 Conserve Resources
13 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
14 Pay your Taxes
THANK YOU!
PREPARED BY:
APOSTOL, LOVELY MAE G.
CABANOG, ROSAVEL
CERIACA, NOVIA D.
CLAROS, ARCHIE R.
CUEVA, CRISTINA P.
DELOS SANTOS, ANALYN L.
LUMOR, GLORIA MAE D.