Respect Education Program finds its course into the classrooms

Respect Education Program workshops commenced on the 2nd week of July 2015 and was conducted simultaneously in 33 public schools of General Santos City, Sarangani Province and Sultan Kudarat.

Students having their interview session during the Getting-to-Know workshop.

It all started with the “Getting-to-Know” each other game. It particularly serves as an introduction to the Respect Program. This game is the best strategy to get to know the students better. There are 5 specific workshops under this, 1) Spider Web, 2) Meet and Greet, 3) Knowing Me, Knowing You, 4) The name game and 5) I can feel it.

​The 2nd week of August 2015 was the 2nd set of REP workshop the "I am" workshop with 3 specific activities, 1)I Am Poem, where the children are given an activity to write a poem about themselves that contains or shows their name, tribe, favorite color, favorite food, favorite artist, favorite place, ambitions and good traits (Grades 6 & 7). 2) I Am Symbol, the children are creatively demonstrating their definition of respect, peace, love and unity through drawings (Grades 4 & 5) and 3) I Am Respect, is where the children identify and enumerate rules that are present in their classroom and they demonstrate it in their critical thinking skills (Grades 8 & 9).

Malandag Central Elem. School REP recipient presented her "Ako Ay" poem in front of the class.

This moro student showing her output to her classmates on "Knowing me, knowing you" activity.

​For the months of October and November is the 3rd set of REP workshop which is"Welcome to my world”. This workshop make the children aware on what are things they should respect in their surroundings. This workshop includes 3 specific activities, 
1) Be my guest, where children learn how to be hospitable, how to act when a spontaneous visitor knocks on the door and what to give, share and what to show to the visitors (Grades 4 & 7); 
2) This is our school, where the half of the class are given an opportunity to showcase the school where they are studying by using drawings and pictures to describe it and the other half of the class take photos of their school environment, highlighting the places that they like best and the areas that are neglected and in need of attention. In this activity, the children exchange ideas about their living environment and work together to help identify solutions to existing problems and challenges. It is a fun and creative way of raising awareness about global issues and their responsibilities or accountabilities (Grades 5 & 9);
3) From trash to art. The children collect waste and other recyclable materials like cellophane, sticks, leaves, papers, plastic cups or anything available materials in their surroundings and they start working freely and use their creativity to make their own arts (Grades 6 & 8).

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