The document introduces the National Service Training Program (NSTP) Act of 2001, which aims to enhance civic consciousness and defense preparedness in youth. It has three component programs - Reserved Officers' Training Corps, Literacy Training Service, and Civic Welfare Training Service. All college students are required to complete one of these programs. The NSTP develops skills that benefit community organizations through volunteer work. It aims to promote patriotism while preparing youth to contribute to society.
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NSTP Module 1 Introduction To NSTP
The document introduces the National Service Training Program (NSTP) Act of 2001, which aims to enhance civic consciousness and defense preparedness in youth. It has three component programs - Reserved Officers' Training Corps, Literacy Training Service, and Civic Welfare Training Service. All college students are required to complete one of these programs. The NSTP develops skills that benefit community organizations through volunteer work. It aims to promote patriotism while preparing youth to contribute to society.
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Welcome
to Learning Module 1 Introduction to NSTP Module Learning Outcomes
After studying the module, you should be able to:
1. explain NSTP Act of 2001; 2. describe the component programs of NSTP; and 3. realize your responsibility to the country. NSTP is designed to encourage, develop, and train the students to contribute 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 service. You are expected to develop self awareness that can create a positive result towards society and become more conscious and observant of the people and events around you. You are expected also to learn the “hows” and “whys” of human actions and interactions, whether acceptable or unacceptable and be able to manage such behavior (self-management) for the betterment of society. You are expected to develop also a social attitude (community awareness) that benefit others without necessarily providing any direct benefit to him. Republic Act 9163 or
The National Service
Training Program (NSTP) Act of 2001 For many years before, students expressed disgruntlement over the content, conduct, staff incompetence, and alleged corruption in the ROTC program. In response to the call of the public before for reforms in the ROTC program, RA No. 9163 or NSTP Act of 2001 was passed and signed into law by former President Gloria Arroyo on January 23, 2002 and was implemented in school year 2002-2003 onwards. The program is jointly implemented by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Technical Education and Skills Development Authority(TESDA),and Department of National Defense (DND). What is NSTP?
National Service Training Program (NSTP)
refers to the program aimed at enhancing civic consciousness and defense preparedness in the youth by developing the ethics of the three (3) program components, specifically designed to enhance the youth’s active contribution to the general welfare. Who are required to take NSTP?
All male and female freshmen of any
baccalaureate degree or at least 2-year technical-vocational course in any private and public educational institutions How will the NSTP be taken up?
Each of the NSTP components shall be
undertaken for an academic period of two (2) semesters and be credited for three (3) units per semester. What will become of NSTP graduates?
Graduates of the non-ROTC components
shall belong to the National Service Reserve Corps (NSRC) which could be tapped by the States for literacy and civic welfare activities. Graduates of the ROTC component shall form part of the AFP Citizen Armed Force, subject to DND requirements. What lead agencies will monitor the implementation of the NSTP?
CHED regional officers, TESDA provincial
and district offices, and DND-AFP through the major service reserve commands and their ROTC units shall oversee and monitor the implementation of the NSTP under their respective jurisdiction, to determine if the training conducted is in consonance with this Act. Component Programs of NSTP
1. Reserved Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC)
program
To provide military training to tertiary level
students in order to motivate, train, organize, and mobilize them for national defense preparedness. 2. Literacy Training Service (LTS) Program
To train the students to teach literacy and
numeric skills to school children, out of school youths, and other segments of society which are considerably in need of their services. 3. Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS) Program
To train students to contribute to the general
welfare and the betterment of life for the members of the community or enhancement of its facilities, especially those devoted to empowering health, education, environment, entrepreneurship, safety, recreation, and moral of the citizenry, and other social welfare services. The curriculum adopted by the University for all programs excluding Criminology program for the first semester is Community Welfare Training Service Program called CWTS 1(NST C101) and CWTS 2 (NST C102 for the second semester. For Criminology students, the curriculum adopted for the first semester is ROTC program (NST C101) for the first semester and (NST C102) for the second semester. Every NSTP component is equivalent to 3 units per semester. What are the objectives of the NSTP-CWTS CS 11A? 1. To promote and protect the physical, mental, intellectual, and social well being of youth. 2. To inculcate patriotism and nationalism in the youth. 3. To encourage their involvement in public and civic affairs. 4. To identify their role as change agents in the community. 5. To prepare and implement projects that will answer specific needs of the society. What are the objectives of the ROTC Program?
ROTC aims to provide military education and
training for students to mobilize them for national defense preparedness. Its specific objectives include preparation of college students for service in the Armed Forces of the Philippines in the event of an emergency and their training to become reservists and potential commissioned officers of the AFP. ROTC student-cadets attend college like other students, but also receive basic military training and officer training from the branch of service that handles their school's ROTC unit. What agencies/groups benefit from the skills acquired by the trainees?
CWTS focuses on supplementing various
facets of volunteer work, such as infrastructure, social welfare assistants, rescue and operation workers, by way of Government and Non- Government Organizations, many community development organizations, medical missions such as those of Red Cross and the Department of Health, and various ecology-based projects, such as tree planting activities. If you have some concerns concerning the module, please bring it up with your professor for clarifications and further discussions. en d s th e This e e t y o u M lesson. t t i m e. ne x online an k y o u. Th