In accordance with the Basic Education Curriculum (RA 10533), Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao Curriculum, the standard of functional literacy is to acquire the skill of decisiveness to act with responsibility for the good of everyone. This means that EsP aims to develop and master the ethical beings of the learners. EsP aims to guide learners to seek the meaning of life, their role in society, and help in building a community which upholds truth, freedom, justice, and love. To showcase this, the learner must have the 5 main macro skills in EsP: understanding, reflecting, consulting, deciding and acting.

In connection with this, Retrospect Batang Batangueno aims to build a value-oriented education culture through the inculcation of target values into everyday tasks of learners. This project seeks the sense of practice until it becomes a part of the habits and attitudes of learners in present times. This project also captivates the significant time of remote teaching and schooling at home, where the learners rekindle the true Batangueno values with the help and guidance of their own parents.

Retrospect Batang Batangueno further aims to maximize Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao learning beyond cognitive skills and competencies, but hand in hand with the psychomotor and affective skills to be practiced in and out of their domiciles.

In particular, RBB aims to relive and re-instill in the learners the Filipino values by gradual practice through everyday chores or small deeds given as tasks or challenges. As it will eventually become part of their routines, it will become a habit and, in the long run, it will become their manner and part of their behavior and attitude.

As with held in the EsP Action Plan, this year-round program has the following objectives:

•  Build a value – oriented education culture through daily inculcation of target values for every quarter within and across the curriculum.

•  To increase students’ and teachers’ interest in EsP teaching and learning through different cognitive, affective, and psychomotor value-laden activities.

• To relive and re-instill Filipino and Batangueno values to the learners.

This project contains values strengthened in the curriculum guides and MELCs at the different grade levels.

In each quarter, the teacher will give tasks or challenges every week to their learners, which are achievable within their learning environment. The task to be given must be simple and executable and be done at a definite time. The task will be based on the table of values attached.

Moreover, they will include this simple task in the weekly home learning plan as an additional assignment for EsP. The evidence can be expressed in writing or visual outputs or in any way suitable for the task. It can be a journal, a picture, a testimony from parents or family members, a Facebook post, a drawing, among others.

At the end of every quarter, the teacher will compile the outputs of the students by grade level in school. The compilation will include some or all testimonies of parents and family members that will reflect the changes that happened towards their learners. Testimonies should be on the first and last day of the implementation.

Also, at the end of the school year, each school can hold a simple activity that will recognize the learners with the biggest breakthrough in their learning environment, behavior, domestic or family relationships, attitude and values. These learners can be awarded the title: ESP Golden Batang Batangueno Awardee (to be awarded in the Dangal EsP activity). In this simple way, EsP in SDO Batangas Province finds its way to help learners respond to the changes of time while remaining a good person in words, thoughts, and deeds.

Retrospect Batang Batangueno firmly believes in the philosophy shared by Mahatma Gandhi:

“Your beliefs become your thoughts,

Your thoughts become your words,

Your words become your actions,

Your actions become your habits,

Your habits become your values,

Your values become your destiny.”

In the initial implementation of Retrospect Batang Batangueno, the learners with their families and teachers responded overwhelmingly. They shared their momentous experiences through letters, essays, photos and any other forms of narrative and documentation. One meritorious display of RBB is the creation of RBB FB pages.