Teachers from Pampanga and Calabarzon trained in Civics and Project Citizen

The Philippine Center for Civic Education and Democracy (PCCED) recently held civic education trainings in the provinces of Pampanga and Batangas. The training workshops were organized in cooperation with the Department of Education Region 4-A office and the Division of Pampanga. A total of 170 Araling Panlipunan (AP) teachers attended the workshops.

The DepEd-Pampanga training was held last November 26-28, 2014 in San Fernando City and was participated in by 120 AP teachers led by their Education Program Supervisor Ms. Rosalin S. Muli. The training workshop for the CALABARZON area, on the other hand, was held on December 4.5 and 6 in Tanauan City. Hosted by the First Asia Institute for Technology and Humanities (FAITH), the worskhop was attended by around 50 teachers from the divisions of San Pablo City, Santa Rosa City, Dasmarinas City and Lucena City and was done through the support of Regional Director Dr. Diosdado M. San Antonio.

The training was divided into two parts: the Civic Education Training Seminar (CETS) and Project Citizen (PC).

CETS is a PCCED program designed to empower those teaching Philippine history, World history, Asian history and Economics with the capacity to embed civics in these Araling Panlipunan subjects. With the K-12 curriculum, PCCED also added a module on the new grade 10 subject, Contemporary issues. The sessions aimed to provide AP teachers with content and pedagogical support to ensure that they can develop the requisite knowledge, skills and dispositions of good citizenship.

Project Citizen (PC), on the other hand, is the service learning component of CETS. It is designed to teach students what democracy is by letting them go through the public policy making process in their community. Teachers were trained how to implement PC in their classroom where their students will be given the opportunity to research and engage their community on the prevalent problems and issues. They will then develop a public policy designed to solve that problem. In PC, students are trained not just to identify problems but to collaborate in looking for solutions.

Similar civic education trainings have been organized this year in Davao City, Butuan City, Sulu, Basilan, Zamboanga City, and NCR.

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