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THE NSTP LAW
The NSTP Law (RA 9163) - “An Act Establishing the National
Service Training Program (NSTP) for tertiary level students,
amending for the purpose Republic Act No. 7077 and
Presidential Decree No. 1706, and for other purposes.”
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo – President of the Philippines when
RA 9163 was signed
Fraklin Drilon – Senate President of the Congress when RA
9163 was signed
Renato “Campañero” Cayetano – RA 9163 law’s principal
sponsor
National Service Training Program ACT of 2001 - aimed to
enhance civic consciousness and defense preparedness in the
youth by developing the ethics of service and patriotism,
specifically designed to enhance the youth’s active contribution
to the general welfare of Filipinos.
COMPONENTS OF NSTP
1. Reserve Officer’s Training Corps [ROTC] -
Institutionalized under Section 38 and 39 of Republic Act
No. 7077 that provides military training to tertiary level
students in order to motivate, train, organize, and
mobilize them for national defense preparedness.
2. Literacy Training Service [LTS] - train the students to
teach literacy and numeracy skills to school children, out-
of-school youth and other segments of society in need of
their services.
3. Civic Welfare Training Service [CWTS] - refers to
activities contributory to the general welfare and the
betterment of life for the members of the community or
the enhancement of its facilities, especially those devoted
to improving health, education, environment,
entrepreneurship, safety, recreation and moral of the
citizenry and other social welfare services.
Covered of NSTP Law
- All incoming freshmen students enrolled in any baccalaureate
and in at least two year technical-vocational or associate
courses .
- Private higher education and technical-vocational education
institutions with at least 350 student cadets may offer ROTC
Exempted of NSTP Law : Schools that offer military training or
equivalent
Duration of NSTP components: 2 semester/54-90 training
hours per semester
Organization of NSTP Graduates
 Citizen Armed Forces (CAF) - Graduates of the ROTC
component
 National Service Reserve Corps (NSRC) - Graduates
of the non-ROTC components: the CWTS and LTS
NSTP-CWTS Dimensions of Development
Safety and Security - It involves disaster preparedness during
fire, earthquake or other calamity that needs immediate
response from any trained civilians during emergency situations.
Education – It involves enhancement of institutional support
materials and facilities for the community and school such as
providing materials containing basic literacy skills for pre-
schoolers, alternative learning system for out-of-school youths
and adults, mathematics and science tutorials and extended
services of skilled students.
Recreation – It involves sports fest, parlor games for street
children and painting that enrich youth’s capacities to relate with
one another in the community.
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Values Formation and Moral Recovery – It involves the
development of youth to be good leaders, responsible
individuals imbued with good moral values and active agent of
development of the community.
Industry and Entrepreneurship – It includes programs and
activities that are vital to economic growth.
CITIZENSHIP TRAINING
Citizenship Training - is a program wherein it develops our
characters to become more mindful of our responsibilities,
rights, and roles in the society.
Philippine Constitution
Since June12,1898, Proclamation of Independence, there have
been a total of 6 Philippine Constitution
1. Malolos Constitution (1898 - 1901)
2. Philippine Organic Act of 1902 & Philippine Autonomy
Act of 1916 (1902 - 1935)
3. Commonwealth and Third Republic (1935 – 1943 & 1945
- 1972)
4. Japanese-Sponsored Republic (1943 - 1945)
5. Martial Law Constitution (1973 - 1986)
6. 1987 Constitution (1987 - present)
The Supreme Law of the Republic of the Philippines
● Its final draft was completed by the Constitutional
Commission on October 12, 1986.
● It was signed and made official by a nationwide vote on
February 2, 1987.
The 1987 Philippine Constitution
Preamble - We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid
of Almighty God, in order to build ajust and humane society and
establish a Government that shall embody our ideals and
aspirations, promote the common good, conserve and develop
our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our posterity the
Care for Health - It aims to give knowledge on medical-related
fields and extend health services needed in the community.
Environment – It inculcates environmental awareness and its
contribution to health and related fields.
blessings of independence and democracy under the rule of law
and a regime of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and
peace, do ordain and promulgate this Constitution.
Bill of Rights (Sections 1-22)
● Freedom
● Privacy
● Access to information
● Equality
● Education
● Safe & Humane
● Working Conditions
Duties & Responsibilities of a Filipino Citizen
1. To respect, honor and give due accord to his Filipino
heritage, patrimony, values and tradition.
2. Contribute to the development, welfare and nation-building of
its country.
3. Engage in gainful work to assure himself and his family a life
of worthy of human dignity.
4. Loyalty to the federal republic and national consciousness,
aspirations and ideals shall be asked from every Filipino citizen.
5. To uphold this Constitution, obey the laws of the land, pay
taxes and duties, and to cooperate with the duly constituted
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authorities in the attainment and preservation of a just and
orderly society.
6. Must give due honor to the Philippine flag, National Anthem,
Philippine President and other national symbols and emblems.
7. To defend the national territory from aggressive invaders,
protect the sovereignty of its people, and preserve the continuity
of a just, human society and government.
8. To report to the proper authorities all plots of terrorism, plans
of rebellion, subversion, or insurrection toward the duly and
legally acknowledge government, and other acts that will
compromise the union and sovereignty of the federal republic.
9. To report corrupt, dishonest or fraudulent government officials
to the proper forum, courts and agencies. A Filipino shall not
tempt or bribe government officials, steal from the coffers of the
government, or escape or abandon his lawful responsibilities.
10. To elect officials of government as a means of
demonstrating his personal ideas and aspirations for the
motherland.
Flag Heraldic Code of the Philippines - An act prescribing the
code of the national flag, anthem, motto, coat-of-arms and other
heraldic items and devices of the Philippines.
Volunteer Act - An act institutionalizing strategy for rural
development strengthening volunterism and for other purposes
The three main objectives of the Volunteer Act of 2007
1.) It aims to provide a conducive and enabling environment for
the mobilization and nurturance of volunteers and volunteer
organizations, by setting mechanisms to protect volunteers'
rights and privileges and give due recognition to highlight their
roles and contributions to the society.
2.) It aims to provide the policy framework that shall underscore
the fundamental principles necessary to harmonize the broad
and diverse efforts of the voluntary sector.
3.) To provide an effective institutional mechanism to strengthen
the role of the Philippine National Volunteer Service
Coordinating Agency PNVSCA) to perform its mandates and to
oversee the implementation of this Act.
Volunteerism - refers to an act involving a wide range of
activities, including traditional forms of mutual aid and
developmental interventions that provides an empowering
environment for the attainment of the public good and where
monetary and other incentives or reward are not the primary
motivating factors..
Volunteer - refers to an individual or group who for reasons
arising from their socio-developmental, business and corporate
orientation, commitment or conviction, contribute time, service
and resources whether on full- time or part-time basis and is
essential to social development cause, mission or endeavor in
the belief that their activity is mutually meaningful and beneficial
to public interest as well as to themselves.
Volunteer service organization - refers to a local or foreign
group that recruits, trams, deploys and supports volunteer
workers to programs and projects implemented by them or by
other organizations or any group that provides services and
resources for the attainment of the common good.
Voluntary sector - refers to those sectors of Philippine society
that organizes themselves into volunteers to take advocacy and
action primarily for local and national development as well as
international cooperation and understanding.
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SELF – AWARENESS
Self-awareness - A clear perception of your personality,
including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation,
and emotions.
True Knowledge - It is knowing who you are, what you are in
this earth for, where you are going, and how you can get there.
Aristotle - “Knowing and understanding one’s self is the key to
true knowledge.”
Daniel Goleman - “The less aware we are of what makes us
passionate, the more lost we will be.” -
Tao Tzu - “Knowing others is wisdom but knowing yourself is
enlightenment.
Self- Concept – an image of who we are.
IMPORATNCE OF SELF AWARENESS - The more you
understand why you view yourself as you do, the better you
understand who you are.
Johari Window – a model use for mapping personality
awareness made by Joseph Lurt and Hurrington Ingham in
1950
FOUR SELVES THAT REPRESENTS HUMAN BEING
 Open Self – It represents all the information, behaviors,
attitudes, feelings, desires, motivations, ideas… that you
know about yourself and the other also know about you.
 Blind Self – It represents information about yourself that
others know but you do not.
 Unknown Self – It represents those parts of yourself
about which neither you nor others know.
 Hidden Self – It contains all that you know of yourself but
keep hidden from others
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE - An ability to recognize
emotions and use these as source of human energy,
information, connection and influence.
FIVE BASIC ELEMENTS OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
1. Self-Awareness - It is knowing what the feelings are at
the moment and using preferences to guide our decision-
making, having a realistic assessment of our own
abilities, and a well-grounded sense of confidence.
2. Self-Regulation - It is handling our emotions so that they
facilitate, rather than interfere, with the task on hand,
being conscientious and delaying gratification in order to
pursue goals or recovering well from emotional distress.
3. Motivation - It is using our deepest preferences to move,
guide us toward our goals, to help us take initiative and
strive to improve, and to persevere in the face of
setbacks and frustrations.
4. Empathy - It is sensing what people are feeling, being
able to take their perspectives and circulating rapport and
attunement with a broad diversity of people.
5. Social Skills - It is handling emotions well in relationship,
accurately reading social developments and lead in
disputes for cooperation and teamwork.
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VALUES DEVELOPMENT
VALUES - It is a personal perceptions of one’s own future,
relatively of the family, works, friendship, group, community and
nation as a whole.
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR VALUES
DEVELOPMENT
1. Human values as ideals which determine our priorities
and direct our behaviors.
2. Human ideals as they reflect different levels of needs.
3. Human pursuit for the ultimate and highest values as
they relate to spiritual nature of man.
4. Human desire much of which is unconscious.
5. Human ideals as pursued individually and collectively.
Brian Hall - “The ideals that give significance to in our lives and
reflected through the priorities that we choose and that we act
on consistently and repeatedly”
Types of Values
Cognitive Values - It is a reality that majority of us share
common value ideals with others.
Active Values - Values that determine our priorities in the
decisions that we make and the actions that we choose
repeatedly and consistently.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
1. Self-actualization needs - realizing personal potential,
self-fulfillment, seeking personal growth and peak
experiences.
2. Esteem needs - esteem for oneself and the desire for
reputation or respect from others
3. Love and belongingness needs - The need for
interpersonal relationships motivates behaviour.
4. Safety needs - protection from elements, security, order,
law, stability, freedom from fear.
5. Physiological needs - these are biological requirements
for human survival, e.g. air, food, drink, shelter, clothing,
warmth, sex, sleep.
LEVELS OF VALUES
Foundation Values - It is relate to the satisfaction of the basic
or fundamental for life to be sustained and to achieve a relative
state of health.
Ultimate Values - It means experiencing life fully, vividly,
selflessly, with full concentration and total absorption.
LIVING VALUES
 Cooperation - Using of energy of the mind to create
vibrations of good wishes and pure feelings for others
and for the task. One who cooperates receives
cooperation.
 Freedom - It is a precious gift which promises an
experience of liberation and feeling of no limits as if the
earth, the skies, and the seas are at one’s service.
 Happiness - It is earned by those whose actions, attitude
and attributes are pure and selfless.
 Honesty - It is the awareness of what is right and
appropriate in one’s behavior, and one relationship.
 Humility - Removes fear and insecurity and open up the
self to universal truths.
 Love - It is not simply a desire, a passion, an intense
feeling for one person or object, but a consciousness
which simultaneously selfless and self-fulfilling.
 Peace - It consist of pure thoughts, pure feelings, and
pure wishes.
 Respect - It is based on awareness of the self as a
unique entity, a life force within a spiritual being, a soul.
 Responsibility - It is accepting what is required, to honor
the role which has been entrusted, and to perform
conscientiously and to the best of one’s ability.
 Unity - It is an harmony with and among individuals in a
group.
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THE GOOD CITIZENSHIP VALUES CLUSTER
I. PAGKAMAKA-DIYOS
 Faith in Almighty in Action - integrating the value of
Faith in God in different areas in daily lives by always
attributing one’s efforts to God and making Him a part of
the choices and decisions that one makes
 Respect for Life in Action - integrating the value of
Respect for Life through deeper personal reflection and
consciousness practice in daily lives by recognizing the
dignity of others and appreciating the value of the life of
every person.
 Order in Action - learn to develop organization skills and
time management. Following the rules and regulations at
any establishments.
 Work in Action - personal reflection as how to value
work each day.
 Concerns for the Family and Future Generations in
Action - evaluating your own family life more deeply.
II. PAGKAMAKATAO
 Love in Action - to evaluate the way you regard and
express the value of love with people that surrounds you.
 Freedom in Action - to be responsible in your own
freedom. Learn to develop a more mature notion of
freedom.
 Peace in Action - to reflect on how they have cultivated
the value of peace in your own family, work and dealing,
as well as in the manner by which they tackle issues that
affect them.
 Truth in Action - cultivating in enthusiastically and
sincerely performing one’s task and role with honesty.
 Justice in Action - to put the value of justice into action
in your lives by nurturing an attitude of vigilance and
understanding of situations.
III. PAGKAMAKA-BAYAN
 Unity in Action - be united with the nation, people, local
community, organization of work and family
 Equality in Action - encourage others to live out the
value of equality be being a good and consistent example
to them
 Respect for Law and Government in Action - be a
good example by being a law-abiding and by respecting
the work of the government.
 Patriotism in Action - practicing Filipino values, love for
country and do a simple acts of service to your
fellowmen.
 Promotion of the Common Good in Action - actively
participate in immersion, outreach and social exposure
activities.
IV. Pagkama-kalikasan
 Concern for the Environment in Action - develop a
more conscious and consistent habit of keeping your
surroundings clean.