To officially commence the approved Academic Program Improvement of the National Service Training Program (NSTP) Diliman Office, an Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) Seminar-Workshop was held at the Toyota Room of the National Center for Transportation Studies last June 17, 2019. Majority of the NSTP coordinators and some NSTP instructors from various UP Diliman colleges, schools, and institutes were present in the workshop to assess the topical contents of the NSTP Common Module in order to achieve uniformity in offering the program. The workshop was a venue to consolidate efforts that would harmonize the course content with the OBE principles as well as the provisions of the NSTP law. Prof. Rosella M. Torrecampo, Director of the Office for the Advancement of Teaching, facilitated the sessions that clarified and refined the NSTP Component Learning Outcomes (CLOs). The CLOS were initially created by the members of the NSTP Extended Council who were grouped together prior to the seminar-workhop. Prof. Torrecampo reiterated that the program objectives and course objectives should be strategically positioned to suit the goals and needs of students. The current Common Module Learning Outcomes (CMLOs) were finalized by the assembly and are articulated as follows: “By the end of the Common Module (CM), the students shall be able to: Express correctly the NSTP framework that is anchored on the vital role of the youth, and University’s ideals of honor, academic excellence, and public service to address national security concerns; Reflect on the concepts of self and others; citizenship and nation building; Philippine society and culture; human dignity and rights; gender sensitivity; environmental advocacy; DRRM; community engagement in order to become a better involved citizen of the country; Demonstrate basic competencies such as principles of community engagement, sensitivity to issues, and/or military science skills necessary for citizenship training and community service for CWTS, LTS, and ROTC; Demonstrate civic consciousness, security preparedness, ethical public service, and a role in nation-building.” On the first part of the workshop, the council also agreed that the topics that are to be included in the Common Module should be categorized as Core, Supplementary, and Optional. The NSTP coordinators […]
Monthly Archives: June 2019
The evening of 01 June 2019 proved to be a proud moment for parents and friends of nine outgoing Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) cadet officers from Baguio, Diliman and Los Baños campuses of the University of the Philippines (UP). This batch of eight female and one male cadet officers completed their three years of rigorous ROTC advanced course while at the same time attend to the demands of their various academic courses. During an elegant Ring Hop ceremony held at the UP Department of Military Science and Tactics (DMST) complex in Diliman, Quezon City, that also serves as a culmination of their years of service to the university and fellow students, the members of the UP Vanguard Class of 2019, in their white duck uniform, were given recognition and honor by their junior cadet officers and witnessed by family and friends of the outgoing class. MGen Bienvenido R Datuin Jr AFP, Commander of the Civil Relations Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the evening’s guest of honor and speaker, said that the Class 2019 are “the future of this country” and that they should “bring out the best and be the best that you can be.” He also reminded them that they “are the chosen few from among the many who dreamed and aspired, so do it.” MGen Datuin is also a product and a former Commandant and Department Head of UP ROTC He is also a proud member of the UP Vanguard Class of 1984. The Ring Hop Ceremony recognizes the outgoing first-classmen as graduates of advance ROTC, and as official members of the UP Vanguard Fraternity. Together with their date, who is usually a parent or a sweetheart, the graduates enter the giant bullring replica and stand underneath it. Their date takes the graduate’s bullring from a ribbon around their necks, and puts it on the graduate’s finger. As upperclassmen, who usually wear anything but a smile, the graduates’ proud and gleeful expressions under the bullring replica positively caps off their tenure as Cadet Officers of the UP ROTC, symbolized by their transition through […]