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LEARNING MODULE IN CAREER GUIDANCE

QUARTER 3 MODULE 1
What I Need to Know
Module 1 of Grade 11 Career Guidance Manual entitled “Road to the Right Choice” covers different professions
and life choices for Grade 11 learners. It provides information on the different senior high school curriculum exits and
professions that will facilitate their career decision making as they pursue college. This module also tackles the different
factors affecting learners’ life and career choices considering that deciding for career and life is not an easy task for Grade 11
learners. As facilitator of this module, you will help the learners identify these factors and lead them to appreciate how these
factors affect their choices of profession.
LESSON 1: Road to the Right Choice
Objectives:
At the end of this module, you are expected to:
1. Enumerate the different professions and life choices;
2. Explain the different factors affecting the choices in life and profession; and
3. Appreciate the factors in choosing a profession.

What I know
Let’s Try This
1. Ask the learners to pick a sheet of colored paper from the box.
2. Group the learners according to the color of paper they picked.
3. Red – Academic Track
4. Blue – Arts and Design Track
5. Green – Technical Vocational and Livelihood Track
6. Yellow – Sports Track
7. Give each group a set of materials listed on page one.
8. The group will design a simple costume representing the cluster of profession/vocation assigned to their group. The
group will choose a representative who will wear the costume.
9. The group will then discuss about the track assigned to them including other professions related to the track.
10. The representative will model the costume, introduce the track, and cite other professions related to the track his/her
group is representing.

Guide Questions
1. What did your group do to come up with the costume? With the introduction about the track?
2. How did you feel while doing the different stages of the activity?
3. Do you see yourself in any of the clusters in the near future? Why?

What’s In
Let’s Explore This
Suggested Time Allotment: 15Minutes

Activity 1.1: Sikreto sa Tagumpay ni Selina

1. Distribute copies of Activity Sheet No. 1 to the learners (see Appendix 1).
2. Tell the learners to read the story.
3. Allow them to reflect on the message of the story. Have them accomplish the activity sheet afterwards.
4. Have the learners go back to their original groups and share their reflections with the members.
5. After the sharing, ask a representative from each group to share to the class the common reflections of the members
of their group.

Guide Questions
1. What does the story tell about?
2. According to the story, what factors affected the career choices of the character in the story?
3. How did these factors help the character in her choice of career?
4. As a student in senior high school, will you also consider these factors?
5. Considering these factors, do you think you will make a good choice of career? Why?

What is it
Keep in Mind
Factors Affecting Career and Life Options

“I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If
they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.”

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 ―Eleanor Roosevelt
(You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life) Ask students reflect on the quotation and answer the
questions.
 What or who influenced your choice of senior high school track and strand, was it your personal decision? Your
parent’s decision? Because of pressure from friends?

Life is a choice. Our choices are influenced by different factors―personal, family, or social. These influences are unique in
every individual and dependent upon the situation the individual is in at that time the choice was made.
PERSONAL FACTORS

 Skills and Abilities. Are you aware of your skills and abilities? Do you know what you are capable of doing? When individuals
are in jobs best suited to their abilities, they perform best and their productivity is highest. Parson's Trait and Factor Theory of
Occupational Choice emphasized the importance of analyzing one’s skills, values, interests, and personality and then match
these up to jobs which use these.

 Interest and Personality Types. Do you know your interests and personality type? Holland's Career Typology
established a classification system that matches personality characteristics and personal preferences to job characteristics.
According to John Holland's theory, most people are one of six personality types: realistic, investigative, artistic, social,
enterprising, and conventional. Knowing your personality will help you understand yourself. It matters that your
personality fits your career choice.

 Life Roles. What do you think is your role in life―a leader? an organizer? a mediator? a designer? According to Super's
Lifespan Theory, how we think about ourselves in these roles, their requirements of them, and the external forces that affect
them, may influence how we look at careers in general and how we make choices for ourselves.

 Previous Experiences. Did you think of pursuing a task which you have been successful in the past? One aspect of the Social
Cognitive Career Theoryaddresses the fact that we are likely to consider continuing a particular task if we have had a positive
experience doing it. In this way, we focus on areas in which we have had proven success and achieved positive self-esteem.

 Childhood Fantasies. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Perhapsthis frequently asked question during our childhood
years may have helped shape what we thought we would be then, as well as later in life.

Family Factors
“The matter of choosing a career in the Philippine setting is clearly a family affair.” (Clemena, 2002)

Parental Influence. How many percent of your career decision is influenced by your parents? Many children grow up
idealizing the professions of their parents. Parents may intentionally or unintentionally push their child towards a particular
career path, especially in the cases of family-owned businesses where parents expect their children to take over the company.
Still other parents apply pressure on their offspring to strive for particular high-profile careers, feeling they are encouraging
their children to reach high.

If your parents were uneducated or were always struggling to get by financially, you may decide not to be in the same position.
This may prompt you to pursue a totally different career path―to have a stable, high-earning job. Likewise, if you have parents
who are workaholics and were never around when you were a child, you may decide to pursue a line of work with flexibility
that gives you more time with your children.

Financial Resources. In choosing a career or profession, there is a need to consider the capability to support the course
or career to be pursued. Social Cognitive Career Theory and Social Learning Theory address this and recognize that events that
take place in our lives may affect the choices available to us and even dictate our choices to a certain degree. When your family
has limited financial resources for instance, will you insist on pursuing medicine? Or would you rather take up other related
courses first and pursue medicine when you are capable of shouldering the expenses yourself?

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 Family Beliefs and Traditions. Beliefs and traditions is another family factor to consider when making a career choice.
It is tradition for example that all male siblings in the clan take up engineering courses. Being a family tradition, this could
somehow be relevant when making a career choice.

SOCIAL FACTORS

Influence of Media/Technology. The influence of social media may have positive and negative effects. Nowadays, career
information is available to 21st century learners. These information may be used or may influence you in deciding for their
career.

Influence of Friends and Peers. Peer pressure is common among learners. There are learners who decide on the career to
pursue based on the opinion or choice of their friends. Who among you will choose the same course as your friends? Why?
There are many reasons for this―you want to be in, would not want to make new friends and make new adjustments, or too
much attachment to old friends.

Industry Demands and Expectations. Our career choices take place within the context of society and the economy.
Graduates have been practical in considering the demands and expectations of the industries before coming up with their career
decisions. These guide them in deciding what to do and where to go. Changes in the economy and resulting job market may also
affect how their careers develop.
As senior high school learners, are you aware of the different choices of professions and career? Do you know where to go
after senior high school?
The Senior High School Program has four curriculum exits. You can choose to be employed right after graduation or
pursue the development of your technical and vocational skills. You can also decide to be an entrepreneur or pursue higher
education. For a clearer understanding, the following are the senior high school curriculum exits:

Senior High School Curriculum Exits

Employment
The Senior High School (SHS) program opens employment opportunities for graduates. Graduates of the Technical–
Vocational– Livelihood (TVL) track may apply for TESDA Certificates of Competency (COCs) and National Certificates
(NCs). Partnerships with different companies for technical and vocational courses expose students to the real world of work.
Students also gain work experience while studying, and companies can even hire them after they graduate.

Entrepreneurship
With the inclusion of an entrepreneurship subject in the curriculum, SHS graduates are better equipped for small-scale
business activities, such as running a family business or starting one’s own business.

Middle Level Skills Development

Middle level skills require learning and training higher than high school education but lower than a four-year college
course. These standard requirements built into the TVL track ensure that graduates have good job knowledge in their chosen
specializations. In the same way that SHS graduates are better prepared for college, they are also equipped for developing more
specialized skills in technical-vocational schools.

Higher Education
Some subjects in the College General Education curriculum have now been integrated into the SHS curriculum, leaving
only the subjects that are more focused and relevant to your chosen course or major.
(Before presenting the list of regulated professions, let the students pick from the wall the prepared strips of different
professions and post these under the right cluster on the board. After the activity, check whether the professions were properly
attached to the right cluster or not, then discuss.)

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 Guide Questions
1. Given the different career and life choices, what would help you to decide where to go after senior high school?
2. Why is it helpful for you to know the different professions and other life choices?
3. What is the importance of considering the different factors in choosing your profession/vocation?
4. What is your insight about this statement from Confucius?
“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

What’s more
Activity 1.3: My Next Career Move

Write your insights gained from the session. Complete the following phrases.

1. I learned that ______________________________________________________________________________________

2. I felt _______________________________________________________________________________________________
3. I would (action to be taken) ________________________________________________________________________

What can I do
Activity 1.4: Knowing the Right Choice
Identify three professions/careers that you would possibly pursue. Enumerate the factors affecting your choices,
and write your insights about the choices.

What I can show?

Suggested Time Allotment: 2 Minutes

Which category in 21st Century skills do you think the core of our topic falls in? (Communication, collaboration, creativity,
critical thinking, productivity, leadership and technology literacy). Explain why.

Prepared by:
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Ms. Angelica T. Petalco, LPT
SUBJECT TEACHER

Prepared by:

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Ms. Rochelle May S. Gayacan, LPT
SUBJECT TEACHER

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