Category: Values Education – JHS

Attempts to bring forward and facilitates the nurturance of the transformative education core values to the level of the classrooms!

• The contents of the worktexts are organized along four major themes (having their origin partly from the DepEd Values Education Continuum and from the CEAP Superintendents’ Commission Transformative Education project in 2002).
• The discussions in the series include: Man/Woman Gender Sensitivity; Man/Woman and their Environment; Man/Woman as Citizens; and Man/Woman, Builders of Justice and Peace.

The New Grade 7— I Am a Child of the Universe is intended to help the students understand themselves, that they are born with talents and wisdom which should give them confidence to handle whatever obstacles that may come their way. The students will be guided to discover their nature, their family roots, gender orientation, their uniqueness, and fundamental rights and duties.

The New Grade 8— My Family: A Gift of God is for the student to establish his/her personal identity in relation to his/her family, community, the nation, nature, and the entire cosmos. This is important in order to sustain the first year lessons on life-giving, life-sustaining, and life-promoting culture.

The New Grade 9— Transformative Citizenry for Nation Building intends to instill in the minds and hearts of our students transformative values education. This effort of transformation is anchored on the vision to realize our political education advocacy, develop self-determination and self-reliance, establish family and societal solidarity, produce socially responsible citizenry, protect democratic rights, and promote national sovereignty.

The New Grade 10— Creating Harmony in the Universe seeks to sensitize the senior students—the young adults to the need to respond to the call for justice and peace; gender sensitivity concern, environmental care, and citizenship duties in their daily life. Having been immersed in these issues in their first, second, and third year lessons, the fourth year students will now advocate for a better quality of life lived in justice, be steeped in environmental ownership, concern for the common good, and uphold equality and being. Henceforth, the students will be one in creating and promoting harmony in the universe.

The Teachers Guides, Learning Guides, and Syllabi contained in this series are especially designed to facilitate their delivery of transformative values education services. Each teachers guide attempts to explain to the teacher how she/he might handle the lesson or lessons contained in the corresponding worktext of the particular year level.

• Isinusulong at pinasisigla ang pagtuturo ng mga pangunahing pagpapahalaga sa nakapagbabagong edukasyon sa antas ng mga silid-aralan
• Itinataguyod ang pagbabago ng kultura sa lipunang Pilipino sa pamamagitan ng isang pinalakas na programa sa edukasyon sa pagpapakatao sa pagbibigay-pansin sa Pag-unawa sa Kasarian, Kapaligiran, Edukasyong Pulitikal, at Edukasyon sa Katarungan at Kapayapaan
• Inirerekomenda ng Komisyon ng mga Superintendente ng CEAP (SupCom)
• Binibigyang kakayahan ang mga mag-aaral na maging tunay na nakapagbabago sa salita, isip, at gawa
• Tinutulungan silang maunawaan at mapahalagahan nang mas malalim ang papel ng pamilya, nililinang ang kanilang tiwala sa sarili at katatagan ng sarili, at nilalayong gawing sensitibo ang mga mag-aaral—ang mga kabataan—sa pangangailangang tumugon sa tawag ng pagtataguyod ng pagkakasundo sa sansinukob
• Sa paggamit ng seryeng ito, inaasahan ang mga mag-aaral na: maging mapagpahalaga sa buhay at dangal ng tao; aktibong makilahok sa mga gawain ng pamilya, komunidad, at bayan; itanim sa kanilang mga isip at puso ang mga nakapagbabagong pagpapahalaga sa pagkamamamayan; at itaguyod nang may pananagutan ang mas mabuting kalidad ng buhay.

With a stronger drive to instill values, this series—

• gives weight to the worth of every human being as a creation of God;
• impresses upon the students the importance of faith in a very confusing world;
• instills in the students Filipinism, pride in the Filipino heritage and magnifies the importance of family and friends;
• discusses societal issues, such as freedom, social justice, democracy, and human rights;
• awakens the students through immersion programs and field trips, to the plight of their less fortunate brothers and sisters and to the sad condition of Mother Earth;
• encourages parents to play an active role in the value formation of their children;
• deals with quite sensitive issues, such as sexuality and premarital sex, with openness but with tact; and
• evolves around the two most important commandments of God—love your neighbor and love God.

The Worktext employs the value-clarification and action-learning approaches in putting one’s values to the fore and in encouraging personal and social action based on these values. Each has a glossary explaining terms as they were used in the text so as to avoid misinterpretation. Every lesson has a module preview presenting as an overview of what the lesson is and a set of desired objectives to be satisfied after each lesson.

The Teachers Guide provides additional lessons as well as suggested class activities and exercises.