NSTP - Cwts

• The NSTP has three components: Citizenship Education (CE), Literacy Education to Enhance Awareness on Nation-Building (LEAD), and Community Extension Services (CES).
• NSTP community immersion


  • Development of community-based projects
  • Universal management functions (planning, organization, staffing, directing, controlling) must be given due consideration to ensure success of project implementation
• Managing NSTP projects


  1. Planning

  2. Organization

  3. Staffing

  4. Directing

  5. Controlling
• Making project proposal


  1. Prelude activity (think of a project based on different dimensions of development)

  2. Activity proper (use provided data to define/discuss parts of project proposal, review format, prepare draft, refine and finalize proposal based on identified need)
• Project


  A time-bound undertaking carried out to create a unique service, combining and channeled into a temporary structure to accomplish a specific goal
• Project development


  1. Survey of felt needs in the locality (baseline information)

  2. Formulation of project or set of projects

  3. Inventory of resources

  4. Mobilizing resources (men, money, materials, moment)

  5. Implementation with regular monitoring

  6. Measuring success through impact evaluation
• Project planning


  • Identifying, analyzing and prioritizing needs and concerns of target clients
  • Developing community involvement in planning to motivate support
  • Assessing feasibility, contributions, rationale, and basis for funding and support through a project proposal
• Project proposal


  A guide for trainees and trainers in attaining tasks during community immersion, basis for designing program of activities and monitoring/evaluating projects
• Purposes of making project proposal in NSTP

  • Guides trainees and trainers in designing program for clientele
  • Facilitates implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects
  • Serves as database for reports
  • Makes work easier as reference for trainees
  • Serves as data source for research
• Parts of a project proposal for NSTP immersion project

  • The title
  • Project proponents
  • Implementing units/implementers
  • Project duration
  • Length of implementation
  • Objective of the project
  • Project description (background, justification, benefits, coverage)
  • Methodology
  • Detailed budgetary requirements
• The title of the project must capture the need and present the name of clientele to be served, written in all capital letters, bold and centered
• Project proponents list names of persons involved, their year level/rank, contact numbers and college
• Implementing units/implementers use capital letters to differentiate from project proponents
• Project duration specifies days, weeks, months, start and end dates, with Gantt chart of activities
• Length of implementation is two days - preparation and distribution on first day, monitoring and evaluation on second day
• Objectives of the project

  Written in operational terms to address identified problems, specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-bound (SMART), considering cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains
• Writing project description


  1. Background (3 paragraphs on modifying issues/problems)

  2. Justification (3-5 paragraphs on importance, expected output, benefits, recipients)

  3. Benefits derived

  4. Coverage (area, clients served)
• Methodology


  • Activities/strategies to achieve objectives, general approach, agency counterparts, responsibilities, manpower, implementation details
• Detailed budgetary requirements


  Budgets for all project activities, varies depending on project coverage and size of expenditures
• National Service Training Program 2 (NSTP2)

  One of the components is Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS) focused on the promotion of the general welfare of the Filipinos via responsive and altruistic community-based projects by student-trainees as they undergo community immersion in fulfillment of the NSTP course requirements
• Community immersion as a requirement of NSTP

  • Involves complete involvement: occupying all the time, energy, or concentration available
  • An approach of developing among NSTP 2 students the concept of empowerment and service as they reach out to deprived, depressed and unprivileged communities and marginalized segments of society
• NSTP 2 community immersion

  1. Improving youth's understanding of their community and how it works through several hands-on activities

  2. Conducting a needs assessment survey of residents

  3. Implementing a project to address an issue identified through the needs assessment
• Community service programs


  • Enhance student's self-concept and self-image
  • Provide youth the opportunities to feel needed by others and to fill important roles in their community
• Community development


  • A process of increasing the capacity of local citizens to solve local problems
  • Effective leadership requires that people understand the economic, political and social processes of their community and the larger society
• Youth as actors and a resource in solving local problems

  • Involving young people in local affairs can both develop the community and solve specific problems
  • As youth invests their time and talent in their community, they can develop a sense of ownership
  • These investments made by and for youth can be drawn upon for future community action
• Dos in Community Immersion

  • Familiarize yourself with basic information and theories regarding community life
  • Secure a waiver from the NSTP office prior to the visit and have it signed by the parents
  • Always inform the faculty in-charge of your destination, time table, and plan of action
  • Be armed with background information about the area for immersion
  • Pay courtesy call to community leaders, whether formal or informal
  • Secure documents like a letter of acceptance from the community, memorandum of agreement, etc.
  • Bring your own personal provisions like water, snacks, and extra shirt
  • Be courteous to everyone
  • Act properly and discreetly
  • Wear proper uniforms and identification card
  • Keep your valuables secured
  • Always document your visit
  • Ask for permission when taking pictures
  • Validate and evaluate if the programs and activities were conducted appropriately as planned
  • Provide copies of your final documentation output to the NSTP office and to the community
• Don'ts in Community Immersion

  • Never forget to inform and get the consent of your parents/guardians
  • Do not go directly to the community without determining the background information
  • Avoid bringing original copies of signed documents in the community
  • Avoid labelling and naming people with politically incorrect terms
  • Do not show off in terms of dressing up
  • Never bring out your valuable things like cellphones, jewelry, and money in public places
  • Never promise and commit to a task that is beyond your and your school's capability
• Mother Theresa: 'Love cannot remain by itself- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action; and that action is service'
• Community's expectations from teachers

  • Facilitate learning and development of the youth
  • Provide leadership and initiative to participate in community movements for moral, social, economic and civic betterment
  • Behave with honor and dignity at all times
• Not all teachers embody the traits expected of professional teachers
• Professional teacher's regard for indigenous people's culture

  Neither ethnocentric (looking down on community's culture) nor xenocentric (looking at own culture as inferior)
• Best quality a teacher should possess

  Caring for students and helping them become the best they can possibly be
• The teacher who believes that "Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be" like Teacher Rita Pierson in TED Talk is a facilitator of learning
• Schools are at the heart of communities and teachers are expected to be part of the community life
• Professional teachers are expected to take the initiative to offer their help for the improvement of the community
• Professional teachers are expected to maintain harmonious and pleasant personal and official relations with other professionals, with government officials and with the people individually or collectively
• Professional teachers shall not use their position and influence to proselyte others
• Organizational leadership


  Leaders help set strategic goals for the organization while motivating individuals within the organization to successfully carry out assignments in order to realize those goals
• In the school setting, the school leader helps set the goals/targets for the school and motivates teachers, parents, learners, non-teaching personnel and other members of the community to do their task to realize the school goals
• Organizational leadership


  Works towards what is best for individual members and what is best for the organization as a group at the same time