Peace Education Leadership Formation Course – Teach Peace Build Peace Movement

45 Teachers from Mamasapano, Pampanga and Taguig participated in the 5-day Teacher Leaders for Peace held in Antipolo City last December 16 to 21, 2016. Funded by MIST PH- Embassy of the United States of America

55 Teachers from Marawi City and Saguiaran Lanao del Sur & Radjah Buayan, Maguindanao participated in the 5-day Teacher Leaders for Peace held in Davao City last January 26 to 31, 2018. Funded by MIST PH- Embassy of the United States of America

40 Teachers from Marawi City Division and Lanao del Sur Division 1 participated in the 4 day Teacher Leaders for Peace Program through the support of Pathways for Education Consortium lead by Save the Children Philippines.

40 schools from Marawi City Division participated in the 10-days Online Peace Education Leadership Formation Course for Educators in partnership with DEPED-DRRMS and City Schools Division of Marawi City.

65 Teachers from Taguig and Ramain, Lanao del Sur participated in a 10-week online Peace Education Leadership Formation Course as part of the Peace Heroes Formation Program expansion supported by the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund.

Learning Journey Reflections

As a teacher it is important to cultivate our inner peace because we cannot teach or give peace to others if we don't have it in ourselves. Inner peace is an important element of educating peace because if we have it in ourselves we can share more peaceful thoughts or ideas to others since we have a peace of mind.

Remember that students look at their teachers as influencers in class. If they see teachers behaving badly, they lose their respect for their teachers as well. But if they see their loving peaceful teacher, they will eventually develop love and concern for others as well. As teachers, we need to attract peace and harmony among our community. Therefore, start peaceful thoughts among ourselves.

Peace education is important for everyone, but particularly for children who are still building their identity and the values they hold. When we teach children to be peaceful, we allow them to be a positive role model for adults around them. When this happens, the impact creates a ripple effect in their communities, and the beauty of the relational nature of peace education is exposed. For me, the idea of a ripple effect is what drives the passion behind teaching conflict resolution skills to youth through peace education.

The Five Love Languages helps me to identify my students on what kind of love they need either Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Giving and Receiving Gifts, acts of Service or Physical Touch. It also teaches me to adjust my dealing and communication to my students so that I could understand their needs and easily for them to understand the lessons or teaching that I wanted to impart with them. It gives me a positivity-boosting complement to my students whether oral or written. It implies that I give a more simple and priceless surprise or token to my students to motivate them to do good and to learn more. It gives me an idea of finding ways and strategies to help my student with their lesson or task more easily for them to learn. And, it helps me to understand and consider their cultural values, beliefs and ethics. This will help me also to make and use of non-verbal strategies to compliment my students.

The topic was very useful. I can use it in my class with my family , friends, and community. Thank you very much for the very useful and interesting topics I have learned a lot that I can use someday not only inside my classroom but to my community as well.

“As an educator, it is very much important to us to have inner peace because it can help us a lot on how to manage our learners to be a better person someday.It is very important to have inner peace in educating for peace for the reasons that we handle fully in terms of understanding the conflict that arises.”

Anti-Bullying Policy is important in a School for Peace Education because it prevents all forms of bullying amongst pupils to improve the safety, happiness, performance, and attendance of pupils. It also shows the school cares and makes it clear that bullying behavior is unacceptable.

Learning Journey Reflections

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