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QUIRINO STATE UNIVERSITY
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National Service Training Program
SELF-PACED LEARNING MODULE
IN
NSTP 12
(NATIONAL SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAM)
(CWTS)
Developed by:
GEROME B. TAGUIAM, RND

CWTS Coordinator
VISION MISSION
The leading center for academic and technological excellence Develop competent and morally upright professionals and generate
and prime catalyst for a progressive and sustainable Quirino appropriate knowledge and technologies to meet the needs of Quirino
Province and Southern Cagayan Valley. Province and Southern Cagayan Valley.
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MIDTERM MODULE #1
COMMUNITY IMMERSION REQUISITE OF THE NSTP:
Community Immersion is one important requirement of the National

Service Training Program (NSTP) prescribed to students! male or female alike! in
private and public higher education institutions and technical vocational
schools.
This serves as the practicum-based element of the NSTP where lessons

learned and acquired in NSTP 1 are applied. This practicum requirement is
essential to all components of the NSTP
Community immersion is a strategy in community organizing that is

sought to imbibe among the NSTP trainees a better understanding and
realization of the different community concerns through the exposure on actual
life situations specifically in the deprived, depressed, and the underprivileged
(DDU) communities.
The NSTP trainees are expected to initiate community-based interventions

in the form of projects and activities meant to address the multi-faceted issues
and concerns of the people in the area of service.
CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY IMMERSION:
COMMUNITY
According to ARLIEN JOHNSON, a noted community development specialist, a
community is a collective of people with similar interests and goals whether living
in the same geographic locality or not.
GEOGRAPHICAL AND FUNCTIONAL
Geographical community is defined in the purview of group of persons living

in the same geographical location like a certain village, town, district, area or
territory.
Functional community is defined as the aggregate of people though not
necessarily based on living in the same geographical location, is bounded by a
common end such as fighting for the same cause, having the same interests and
goals.
ELEMENTS OF A COMMUNITY
The important elements are the following:

1. Demographics - includes population distribution and density
2. History - events of the past that contributed to the development of the
community
3. Culture - ways of living of the people
4. Economy - income level and occupation of people
5. Structures – physical, political, and social structures in the community
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COMMUNITY IMMERSION
It is an essential strategy in community organizing work that entails

understanding of the different community concerns, process, dynamics and
lifestyle through exposure and engaging in different activities.
Forms of Integration in Community Immersion

1. Home visits
2. Living with selected families preferably with key informants
3. Informal discussions with individuals and groups
4. Sharing in household and community activities
5. Attendance in social gatherings
6. Assistance in production work
Examples of Community Partners

1. Parents
2. The youth (in school or out of school)
3. Differently-abled constituents
4. Professionals
5. Members of people’s organizations
PERSONAL GAINS FOR STUDENTS IN COMMUNITY IMMERSION

1. Opportunity for students to comprehend people’s lives
2. Gain social acceptance derived from community relations
3. Enhance experience in conducting surveys and researches
4. Establish rapport and relationships with different people
5. Develop their conscientization ability
6. Acquire first-hand experiences in dealing with community works
7. Chance to learn life skills
THE EXTENSION CREED

by Dr. Y.C. James Yen
Go to the people.
Live with the people. Learn from them.
Plan with them. Work with them.
Start with what they know.
Build on what they have.
Teach by showing, learn by doing.
Not by showcase but by pattern
Not odds and ends but a system
Not piecemeal but integrated approach
Not to conform but to transform.
Not relief but release.
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DOs and DONTs in the community Immersions
BEFORE
1. Familiarize yourself with the basic information and theories regarding
community life.
2. Secure a waiver from the NSTP office.
3. Always inform your faculty-in-charge of your destination, time table and
plan of action.
4. Be armed with background information about the area of immersion
5. Pay courtesy call to community leaders, whether formal or informal
6. Secure documents pertinent to your stay in the community.
7. Be ready with personal provisions.
DURING
1. Be courteous to everyone
2. Act properly and discreetly
3. wear proper school uniforms and identification cards.
4. Keep your valuables secured
5. Always document your visit.
6. always ask permission from concerned people when you have to take
photos.
AFTER
1. Validate and evaluate the programs and activities conducted.
2. Submit final documentation outputs to the NSTP office for records
purposes.
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WORKSHEET
A. Directions: Answer the following the following questions as a guide in your

class presentation in depicting a community you want to live in.
1. What makes an ideal community?
2. What is the role of each institution/community participants in the

establishment of peaceful and orderly community?
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3. How do you relate each community participant with the attainment of the
common vision of the people there at?
4. What are the aspirations/interests of the community participants?
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B. Directions: Prepare a collage depicting the problems and concerns of a

community.
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MIDTERM MODULE # 2
LESSON: PROCESS OF COMMUNITY IMMERSION
INTRODUCTION
Community immersion general takes on different overlapping phases, similar to

performing community organizing strategies called social preparation phase,
integration, social analysis, and report writing and termination of project.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
At the end of this unit, the student must be able to:
1. Verbalize the process of immersion as a guide for rendering service to the
communities;
2. Design a community immersion plan of implementation following the
process; and
3. Internalize the importance of carrying out the steps of community
immersion in series.
LEARNING EXERCISE:
COMMUNITY MAPPING
Directions: as a way to familiarize the student-trainee with the structures in the
community, one tool known as community map comes in a handy. Present a
map of your own community on the space below.
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DISCUSSION:
THE PROCESS OF COMMUNITY IMMERSION.

The community immersion process is series interrelated and intertwined phases,
which commences with the Pre-immersion followed by entering the community,
community integration; community needs assessment, program or project
implementation and termination of the project.
PHASE 1: PRE-IMMERSION
This phase regards the identification of the community where the students will
be immersed at. Trainees will have to prepare themselves physically, mentally,
and spiritually for many tasks ahead.
AREA SELECTION Factors to be considered in area selection:

1. Group or communities to be chosen to the deprived, depressed and
underprivileged (DDU)
2. Willingness of local groups and community leaders to work with you on
community projects.
3. Anticipated activities and demands fall within your available resources and
ability to meet them.
4. Presence of development agencies and other support institutions providing
assistance to the areas.
5. Stable peace and order situation.
6. Accessibility. Successful community immersion also relies on how quickly and
how often you can visit the community
PHASE 2: ENTERING THE COMMUNITY
To ensure success in entering the community, it is necessary to have community

mapping of the target area. This will help you identify the geographic coverage of
the project. It will also help point out the resources that may be used by the
trainees in the community and the relationship of people with these resources.
Trainees can enter the community thru:

1. Ostentatious Entry.
2. Banking on the people’s weakness
3. Academic style of Entry.
4. People-centered approach.
PHASE 3: COMMUNITY INTERGRATION
Integration is a continuous process wherein the trainees come into direct contact
and become involved with the community people. This phase is where the
immersion phase gets more personal. The trainees should realize that there is
an existing concern within the community. As the problems of the community is
an existing concern with the community.
Integration may be done through”
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a. Border Style – If provision allow, the trainees may choose to stay and live-in
the immersion area for a certain period of time.
b. Elitist Style – some trainees tend to stay to key informants and political
players during their stay in the community.
c. People-centered method of living with the people.
PHASE 4: COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT
Needs assessment, social analysis or community diagnosis as others refer to, is

a concrete base for the formulation of programs. It reflects the sentiments, needs,
aspirations, and recommendations of the community people. Assessing the
needs of the community is a prelude to effective program offered to clients. This
will ensure solution to problems, issues and concerns of the people in the
locality. Community needs assessment is the process wherein problems, issues,
and concerns of the community are identified through the use of several tools for
assessment.
IMPORTANCE OF NEEDS ASSESSMENT

1. Gather information about citizen’s attitudes and options in order of
importance.
2. Determine how citizens rank issues, problems and opportunities in order of
importance or urgency.
3. Give citizens a voice in determining policies, goals, and priorities.
4. Evaluate current programs and policies.
5. Provide speculations about what people are thinking.
6. Provide speculations about what people really want.
INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN ASSESSSING COMMUNITY NEEDS

1. Historical Development – this refers to data on how the community became
what it is today and provides insights into the kind of resources to collect and
weed.
2. Geographical and Transportation Information – includes information on the
community’s patterns and population contribution.
3. Political and Legal functions – includes strategies for community-based
selection.
4. Demographic Data – this includes data on age characteristics, size, race, and
transience of population.
5. Economic Data – this refers to the economic base, social, cultural,
educational, recreational organizations.
METHODS IN COLLECTING DATA FOR COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT

1. Focused Group Discussion with key informants. The key informants of the
community are people who hold socially responsible positions such as educators,
public officials, and business representative who are active in community events.
2. Community Forum/Assembly This involves holding of group events that may
include the entire community.
3. Public Records - Records like national census will provide data for social and
demographic indicators of the community.
4. Survey- Survey and questionnaires involve asking individuals in the
community about their everyday needs.
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STEPS IN CONDUCTING NEEDS ASSESSMENT

1. Establish working committee to solicit citizen and community.
2. List important aspects that are needed to be looked upon.
3. Identify the population to be surveyed.
4. Determine the information needed
5. Select random sample of person to survey.
6. Collect information
7. Analyze the data
8. Go back to the community for validation of information
9. Finalize the document
PHASE 5: PROGRAM/PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
Project implementation deals with the actual execution of the plans. This phase
includes the final arrangement with the target clients/community, right
schedule of each event, day-to-day activities and needs of clients.
THINGS TO BE CONSIDERED IN PHASE 5

1. Program must be responsive to the needs of the clients;
2. Contribute to the upliftment of the living conditions of the clients;
3. Maximize the resources available in the community;
4. Tap the potentials of the clients and give due recognition
5. Objective must be smart
6. Project must be done systematically
7. Complete documentation
8. Projects must be within the capacity and concern of trainees
9. Developed shared commitment among the trainees
PHASE 6: PROGRAM/PROJECT TERMINATION
Trainees are expected to complete their projects in the community in the span of
50-90hrs. as prescribed to the CHED-endorsed program of instruction. As
trainees, one must learn how to work within the allocated time frame given, for
their convenience and also for the community
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EXPLORE
Present an illustration that will depict the systematic process of project

implementation
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EVALUATE
In this lesson, you have learned about the concepts of community immersion.
With regards, you will be asked to think critically and answer the following
questions;
1. Why it is important to assess the community needs?
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2. What are the importance of community immersion?
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ELABORATE
How will you respond on the following situations?
1. You are interviewing the head of a household during a community

needs assessment survey when all of a sudden, all other family
members started hanging around your interview areas. Children
started to be noisy. They climb your back and pull your arms. Parents
are unaware that the children were already bothering you. They went
telling story to you about the community. What will you do so that you
can better facilitate the interview?
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2. During your regular community visits, you encountered a member of

barangay council. He came to you and said in front of the people that
he was not informed of the project you are undertaking. Although you
remembered that this particular council member was not present when
you paid a courtesy call to the barangay leaders. What will you do to
convince him and the rest of the community of your good intention?
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Reference:
Towards a responsive Community Action (A modular worktext in NSTP 2) by

Florida Labuguen, Ed.D
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QUIRINO STATE UNIVERSITY

SELF-PACED LEARNING MODULE

GEROME B. TAGUIAM, RND

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

Community Immersion is one important requirement of the National

This serves as the practicum-based element of the NSTP where lessons

Community immersion is a strategy in community organizing that is

The NSTP trainees are expected to initiate community-based interventions

CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY IMMERSION:

GEOGRAPHICAL AND FUNCTIONAL

Geographical community is defined in the purview of group of persons living

The important elements are the following:

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

It is an essential strategy in community organizing work that entails

Forms of Integration in Community Immersion

Examples of Community Partners

PERSONAL GAINS FOR STUDENTS IN COMMUNITY IMMERSION

THE EXTENSION CREED

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

DOs and DONTs in the community Immersions

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

A. Directions: Answer the following the following questions as a guide in your

1. What makes an ideal community?

2. What is the role of each institution/community participants in the

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

4. What are the aspirations/interests of the community participants?

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

B. Directions: Prepare a collage depicting the problems and concerns of a

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

Community immersion general takes on different overlapping phases, similar to

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

THE PROCESS OF COMMUNITY IMMERSION.

AREA SELECTION Factors to be considered in area selection:

PHASE 2: ENTERING THE COMMUNITY

To ensure success in entering the community, it is necessary to have community

Trainees can enter the community thru:

PHASE 3: COMMUNITY INTERGRATION

Integration may be done through”

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

PHASE 4: COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT

Needs assessment, social analysis or community diagnosis as others refer to, is

IMPORTANCE OF NEEDS ASSESSMENT

INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN ASSESSSING COMMUNITY NEEDS

METHODS IN COLLECTING DATA FOR COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

STEPS IN CONDUCTING NEEDS ASSESSMENT

PHASE 5: PROGRAM/PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

THINGS TO BE CONSIDERED IN PHASE 5

PHASE 6: PROGRAM/PROJECT TERMINATION

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

Present an illustration that will depict the systematic process of project

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

1. Why it is important to assess the community needs?

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

2. What are the importance of community immersion?

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

How will you respond on the following situations?

1. You are interviewing the head of a household during a community

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

2. During your regular community visits, you encountered a member of

“Molding Minds, Shaping Future”

Towards a responsive Community Action (A modular worktext in NSTP 2) by