VALUE
TEACHERS
And Resource persons
While Value Teachers are those who teach subjects on Values And Morals, Resource Persons are usually senior citizens like retired teachers or other character veterans who present CEMS papers on values to parents, teachers and other adults.
Functions of Value Teachers include the followings:
1. To teach Secondary School Students Values either on the assembly ground or in classrooms with the use of Value Initiative Programmes (VIP) and Student Orientation Studies (SOS) resource books.
2. To establish and coordinate Gifted Children’s Club (GCC) in Primary Schools whose members meet once in a week for extracurricular activities. Groups like Patriotic Youths and Literary And Debating Society (LADS) are established and coordinated in Secondary Schools. While members of Patriotic Youths develop and deliver speeches every week with the use Student Seminar And Study Manual, LADS members are involved in school debate every week on issues that are suggested also in the study manual.
3. To address parents and teachers once in a while on the issues of building children and youths into reasonable and responsible members of the society, especially during Parent Teacher Association meetings.
4. To help members of Patriotic Youths and LADS in preparation of speeches or debate while students in Primary Schools are engaged in Class Activities, helping in dramatizing or composing into songs the stories and poems in as in Value Story Book.
5. To assist in counselling Secondary School Students, lead especially unruly students on excursion to prisons and give parents useful advice on National Values and Virtues.
6. To assist in counselling Secondary School Students and also give their parents useful advice on National Values and Virtues.
Value Resource Persons deliver Seminar Papers, which are usually based on researched works on values, virtues and vices in the society.
Organizing Students For The Purpose Of Student Orientation Studies (SOS) Value Teachers are required to organize and coordinate groups of students, especially in Primary Junior and Senior Secondary schools for these purposes:
1. To gauge the impact of Student Orientation Studies on the attitudes of the students within the school.
2. To prepare them for future leadership roles.
3. To engage their minds with extra curriculum activities that will boost their moral values and virtues, educating them on the consequences of their involvements in social vices.
4. To disabuse their minds of hate speeches, immoral songs and other things that corrupt the society, guiding them against hostile environment that had been created for them through various means of entertainments and communications.
5. To develop their interests in education and challenge them to become assets to the nation instead of constituting nuisances in the society.
6.To develop their talents and encourage them to use their gifts for the good of the nation.
7. To make them understand the consequences of unpatriotic attitudes, grooming them into responsible and reasonable parents, citizens and leaders of tomorrow.