The Citizenship Advancement Training (CAT) is a restructuring of mandatory citizenship training for 4th year high school students in the Philippines. It includes components on military orientation, community service, and public safety/law enforcement. Students must complete at least one component. The goals of CAT are to encourage civic participation and contribution to community welfare, instill patriotism and respect for law, and develop leadership skills and social responsibility in students.

2. PICTURE ANALYSIS
a. What is CAT?
b. What is your
expectation
regarding this
subject?

3. WHAT IS THE CITIZENSHIP ADVANCEMENT
TRAINING (CAT)?
•IT IS A RESTRUCTURING OF THE CITIZENSHIP
ARMY TRAINING REQUIRED OF ALL FOURTH
YEAR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN BOTH
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOLS AS
PROVIDED FOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF
EDUCATION (DEPED) ORDER NO. 35, S.2003
AND REINFORCED BY THE DEPED ORDER NO.
52 S. 2004.

4. WHAT ARE THE PROGRAM COMPONENTS OF
THIS NEWLY STRUCTURED CAT?
A. MILITARY ORIENTATION
WHICH DEALS WITH THE
INTRODUCTION TO THE BASIC
KNOWLEDGE AND
EXPERIENCES AS WELL AS
ACTIVITIES RELATED TO
CITIZENSHIP ADVANCEMENT

5. WHAT ARE THE PROGRAM COMPONENTS OF
THIS NEWLY STRUCTURED CAT?
B. COMMUNITY SERVICE WHICH REFERS TO
ANY ACTIVITY THAT HELPS ACHIEVE THE
GENERAL WELFARE AND THE BETTERMENT
OF LIFE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE
COMMUNITY, OR ENHANCEMENT OF ITS
FACILITIES ESPECIALLY THOSE DEVOTED TO
IMPROVING HEALTH, EDUCATION, SAFETY,
RECREATION AND MORALE OF THE
CITIZENRY

6. WHAT ARE THE PROGRAM COMPONENTS OF
THIS NEWLY STRUCTURED CAT?
C. PUBLIC SAFETY AND LAW
ENFORCEMENT SERVICE WHICH
ENCOMPASSES ALL PROGRAMS AND
ACTIVITIES WHICH ARE
CONTRIBUTORY TO THE
MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND ORDER,
ENHANCEMENT

7. 3. ARE ALL THESE THREE PROGRAM COMPONENTS
OF THE CAT REQUIRED TO BE UNDERTAKEN BY THE
GRADE TEN STUDENTS?
NO, THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT FOR THE COURSE IS THE COMPLETION OF ONE COMPONENT OR ANY
COMBINATION OF THE THREE (3) PROGRAM COMPONENTS

8. 4. WHAT IS THE EMPHASIS OF THE THREE
(3) PROGRAM COMPONENTS OF CAT?
•GIVE EMPHASIS
TO CITIZENSHIP
TRAINING

9. 4. WHAT IS THE EMPHASIS OF THE THREE
(3) PROGRAM COMPONENTS OF CAT?
•ENCOURAGEMENT OF
YOUTH TO CONTRIBUTE IN
THE IMPROVEMENT OF
THE GENERAL WELFARE
AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF
THE COMMUNITY

10. 4. WHAT IS THE EMPHASIS OF THE THREE
(3) PROGRAM COMPONENTS OF CAT?
••INSTILLING PATRIOTISM,
MORAL, VIRTUES,
RESPECT FOR THE RIGHTS
OF CIVILIAN AND
ADHERENCE TO THE
CONSTITUTION

11. 5. WHAT ARE THE AIMS OF THIS
CITIZENSHIP ADVANCEMENT TRAINING?
•DEVELOP IN THE CORPS OF
CADETS OF A GOOD FELLOW
BY ACTUALLY UNDERGOING
THAT PART, IN ORDER TO
PREPARE THEM FOR THEIR
SUBSEQUENT ROLE AS CAT
LEADERS

12. 5. WHAT ARE THE AIMS OF THIS
CITIZENSHIP ADVANCEMENT TRAINING?
•ENHANCE THE
STUDENTS’ SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY AND
COMMITMENT TO THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR
COMMUNITIES

13. 5. WHAT ARE THE AIMS OF THIS
CITIZENSHIP ADVANCEMENT TRAINING?
•DEVELOP THEIR ABILITY TO
UPHOLD THE LAW AND ORDER AS
THEY ASSUME ACTIVE
PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY
ACTIVITIES AND THEIR
READINESS IN ASSISTING THE
MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY
ESPECIALLY IN TIMES OF
EMERGENCY

14. 5. WHAT ARE THE AIMS OF THIS
CITIZENSHIP ADVANCEMENT TRAINING?
•DEVELOP PERSONAL
QUALITIES AND
ATTRIBUTES
ESSENTIAL TO
SUCCESSFUL
LEADERSHIP.

15. 5. WHAT ARE THE AIMS OF THIS
CITIZENSHIP ADVANCEMENT TRAINING?
•INSTALL TO THE STUDENTS’
APPRECIATION AND DEEP FEELING
FOR THE SPIRIT AND THE TRUE
MEANING OF THE MOTTO HONOR,
LOYALTY, AND INTEGRITY.

16. 5. WHAT ARE THE AIMS OF THIS
CITIZENSHIP ADVANCEMENT TRAINING?
•THE CITIZENSHIP
ADVANCEMENT
TRAINING LEADS THE
WAY TO THE HOLISTIC
APPROACH AND IN THE
COUNTRY AS A WHOLE.