“NSTP_LTS 1: Armor of Future Educator”

By: Jackie Lyn V. Lozada

“God is not unjust; he will not forget your WORK and the love you have shown him as you have helped his PEOPLE and continue to HELP them.”  

Hebrews 6:10

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What is NSTP and its hidden facts?

The National Service Training Program, or NSTP, is a program designed to instill patriotism in Filipino youth. This program aimed to improve civic awareness and preparedness among youth by instilling the values of service and patriotism while undergoing training in any of its three program components. (1) Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) is a program established by Republic Act 7077 that provides tertiary-level youth with military training in order to activate them for national defense preparedness. (2) The Literacy Training Service prepares students to teach less fortunate school children, out-of-school youth, and other indigent people who have been denied the opportunity to learn. (3) Civic Welfare Training Service is a program that prepares students to contribute to the general well-being of community members’ lives.

How about LTS?

As a Social Studies pre-service teacher, LTS is the program I already took under my NSTP subject. It enables to train and teach students like me in terms of literacy and numeracy. Its noble goal is to develop the potential of future innovators not only in terms of academic performance, skills, and expertise in our specific field, but also in terms of personal development and values that we can apply in our teaching profession and volunteering, particularly with Out-of-School youth and Indigenous children. Exploring and learning through this program is quite interesting. It really helps me a lot as a pre-service teacher to gain more understanding of how to be a worthy servant and active leader of our country. It helps me to find my self-worth and purpose through serving others, not just my future students but also our fellow Filipino men.

This program provided me with some values and points of view in life. I learned to consider the value of giving even if you receive nothing in return. Just like what the Bible says in II Corinthians 9:7, God loves a cheerful giver. He wants us to give and share our time, effort, learning, and other available resources with those in need, voluntarily, based on our own free will. Another thing is that I appreciate the value of friendship. As we teach the students, we are adding them to our list of family members, those individuals that are important to us. And also, I realize the worth of love. We must unconditionally love our country and our fellow citizens. In my opinion, I learned to care about what our country needs, thus it really shows the great importance of LTS-1 for students and future teachers like me.

Literacy Training Service program is important for future teachers like me knowing that strong literacy skills are closely related to the likelihood of having a good job, earning a decent living, and having access to training opportunities that I might possibly use in my teaching career. Literacy is a fundamental human need as well as a human right to knowledge. Only when it leads to participation in cultural and social activities does it have meaning. It empowers us to make value judgments and rational decisions on our own. It helps us to improve our self-esteem, develop creativity, increase our productivity, and inculcate awareness of how we view situations around us in terms of ups and downs, and measure things behind our capacity. This program prepares me as a future teacher to become who I am as a successful individual someday. It cultivates me enough to grow out of my shell and enriches me to become a well-educated, well-mannered, and resilient responsible teacher who can cope with different challenges in different areas of the work field. It prepares me to be a flexible and versatile teacher for the next generation!

Let your LIGHT SHINES out of the DARKNESS!!

#Pre-Service_Teachers_CARES!!