Values 101

LEARNING GUIDE

Values Education Program (VEP)

Rationale
The VALUES EDUCATION FOR THE FILIPINO, The Values Education
Program of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports was developed in
1988. This program made values education a primary thrust in the educational system
and became an integral part of the curriculum. To ensure the program’s implementation,
it was essential to design a framework to guide teachers. The framework and guidelines
were explained through the issuance of DECS Order No. 6, s. 1988. The outline does
not prescribe or impose values. It is merely a list of virtues adaptable to varying
situations which it is hoped the learner will internalize and practice. Teachers may use
the values framework to help identify and choose which values to emphasize, reinforce
or change, when it is perceived necessary and beneficial to do so.

The need to strengthen Filipino values was supported by the executive order
through Presidential Proclamation No. 479 dated October 7, 1994 titled Declaring the
Month of November of Every Year as Filipino Values Month. It aims to mobilize all
Filipinos for nation building by actualizing human values in daily lives as citizens and to
awake all in the power of values and ideals in achieving the individual and national
goals.

Description
 Values education as a part of the school curriculum is the process by which
values, attitudes and habits are formed as the learner interacts with his environment
under the guidance of the teacher. It involves different kinds of teaching-learning
process. First, in terms of subject matter, values has direct and immediate relevance to
the personal life of the learner. Second, the process involves not just cognitive but all
the faculties of the learner. The teacher must appeal to the heart and the total human
person instead of only to the mind. And third, one learns values the way children learn
many things from their parents. Children identify with parents, and this identification
becomes the vehicle for the transmission of learning. Hence, the teacher’s personal
values play an important role in values learning.

Studying values will not necessarily influence behavior. Behavior can only be
influenced when a value is experienced and a commitment made to it in belief and
attitude.

Program Goal and Objectives:

Goal

The goal of the Values Education Program (VEP) is to provide and promote
values education at all levels of the educational system for the development of the
human person committed to the building of “a just and humane society” and an
independent and democratic nation. This is to ensure that the core values of Maka-
Diyos, Makatao, Makakalikasan, and Makabansa are instilled among the learners.

Objectives

Proper implementation of the program will develop Filipinos who:

 are self-actualized, integrally developed human beings imbued with a sense of

human dignity;
 are social beings with a sense of responsibility for their community and
environment;
 are productive persons who contribute to the economic security and development
of the family and the nation;
 as citizens, have a deep sense of nationalism, and committed to the progress of
the nation as well as of the entire world community through global solidarity; and
 manifest in actual life an abiding faith in God as a reflection of his spiritual being.

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make

man a cleverer devil.” – CS Lewis
Module 1: Introduction to Values
Education
CONTENT STANDARD: The students will be able to give an understanding of how to
practice and values in life.

PERFORMANCE STANDARD: The students will be able to formulate their Values.

TRANSFER GOAL: The students on their own will be able to use their learning to set
goals in life in line with their values

Lesson Objectives: Upon completion of this lesson, students will be able to:

 define values.
 understand the importance of values.
 Analyze their values in a digital classroom.

INTRODUCTION & FOCUS QUESTION:

Even though there were plenty of technological advances, the values that students need
to have remained the same. And it's not that different from those that were taught in the
past generations.

We can probably say that the application of those values in education has
changed or evolved.

Example: Showing respect. Showing respect for others is just as important as they
were before, but they are now applicable in a variety of ways.

Respect for others can now be applied to their behavior online as well as off-line.

Respect for others can now be applied to their behavior online as well as off-line.
Students should learn the value of conducting themselves responsibly and respectfully
when using different social media platforms and devices.

Learning how digital communication works, and engaging with it positively, is a great
way to determine what is and isn't okay to do online.

Example: Responsible citizenship. Responsible citizenship can now be applied to

practice responsible digital citizenship, whereby students learn to avoid the abuse and
misuse of information and to respect others’ right to peace and privacy.

These are just some of the values

that students should be aiming to
instill in mind.