Module 1:
Road to the Right Choice
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 1
INTRODUCTION
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 regulated professions
that will facilitate their career decision making as
they pursue college.
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OBJECTIVES
At the end of this module, the learners 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.
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MOTIVATION
Fashion Show of Professions
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.
Red – Academic Track
Blue – Arts and Design Track
Green – Technical Vocational and Livelihood Track
Yellow – Sports Track
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MOTIVATION
3. Each group will be given a set of materials.
4. 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.
5. The group will then discuss about the track assigned to them
including other professions related to the track.
6. The representative will model the costume, introduce the track,
and cite other professions related to the track his/her group is
representing.
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QUESTIONS
1. What did your group do to come up with the
costume?
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?
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LECTURETTE
Factors
Affecting
Career and Life
Options
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Opening Reflection
“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.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life)
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Opening Reflection
What influences your choice of Senior
High School Track and Strand?
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Life is a choice. Our choices
are influenced by different
factors - personal, family, and
social. These influences are
unique to you and to your
situation.
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Career and Life Choices
Career and Life Choices
PERSONAL
FAMILY SOCIAL
Skills and Abilities
Parental Influence Influence of Friends
Interests and Personality and Peers
Types Beliefs and Traditions
Influence of Media/
Financial Resources Technology
Life Roles
Previous Experiences Industry Demands and
Expectations
Childhood Fantasies
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Career and Life Choices
PERSONAL
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Career and Life Choices
Skills and Abilities
• Are you aware of your
skills and abilities?
• 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
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Career and Life Choices
Interest and Personality Type
Do you know your interest and
• Holland's Career personality types?
Typology
• 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.
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Career and Life Choices
• Super's Lifespan
Life Roles
theory, states that how • What do you think is your role
we think about in life? A leader? Organizer?
ourselves in these Mediator? Designer?
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.
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Career and Life Choices
Previous Did you think of pursuing a
Experiences task which you have been
successful in the past?
• One aspect of Social
Cognitive Career
Theory addresses
the fact that we are
likely to consider
continuing a
particular task if we
have had a positive
experience doing it.
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Career and Life Choices
Childhood Fantasies
• What do you want to be when
• You may remember you grow-up?
this question from
your childhood, and
it may have helped
shape how you
thought about
careers then, as well
as later in life.
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Career and Life Choices
FAMILY
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Career and Life Choices
“The matter of choosing a career in
the Philippine setting is clearly a
family affair.” - (Clemena, 2002)
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Career and Life Choices
Parental Influence
Many children grow up
idealizing the professions How many
of their parents. percent of your
career decision
is influenced by
your parents?
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Career and Life Choices
Family Beliefs and
Traditions
The beliefs and
traditions should not
be set aside for in one
way or another it
could play a vital role
that would somehow
relevant in making a
choice.
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Career and Life Choices
SOCIAL
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Career and Life Choices
Influence of
Media/Technology
• Media
influence
may have
positive and
negative
effects.
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Career and Life Choices
Influence of Friends and Peers
• Peer pressure is common • Who among you will
among learners. choose the same course
as their friends?
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Career and Life Choices
Industry Demands and Expectations
• considering the demands and
expectations of the industries
before coming up with their
career decisions
Changes in the economy
and resulting job market
may also affect how their
careers develop.
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Career and Life Choices
As senior high school
learner, are you aware
of the different
professions and life
choices?
Do you know where to
go after senior high
school?
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Career and Life Choices
Senior High School Curriculum Exits:
• Employment
Entrepreneurship
• Higher Education
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Career and Life Choices
Regulated Professions
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Career and Life Choices
Medical and Health
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Career and Life Choices
Medical and Health
• Nursing
• Medicine
• Medical Technology
• Radiology Technology
• Nutrition
• Pharmacy
• Optometry
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Career and Life Choices
Medical and Health
• Dentistry
• Respiratory Therapy
• Physical Therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Midwifery
• Veterinary Medicine
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Career and Life Choices
Engineering
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Career and Life Choices
Engineering Profession Cluster
• Aeronautical
• Agricultural
• Chemical
• Civil
• Electrical
• Electronics
• Geodetic
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Career and Life Choices
Engineering Profession Cluster
• Mechanical
• Metallurgical
• Mining
• Naval Architecture
• Marine
• Sanitary
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Career and Life Choices
Business, Education and Social
Work Professions Cluster
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Career and Life Choices
Business, Education and Social
Work Professions Cluster
• Accountancy
• Criminology
• Customs Broker
• Guidance and Counseling
• Librarians
• Marine Deck Officers
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Career and Life Choices
Business, Education and Social
Work Professions Cluster
• Marine Engine Officers
• Professional Teachers
• Psychology
• Real Estate Service
• Social Workers
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Career and Life Choices
Technology
Cluster
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Career and Life Choices
Technology Cluster
• Agriculture
• Architecture
• Chemistry
• Environmental Planning
• Fisheries
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Career and Life Choices
Technology Cluster
• Foresters
• Geology
• Interior Design
• Landscape Architecture
• Master Plumbers
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Career and Life Choices
“Choose a job
you love and
you will never
have to work a
day in your life.”
- Confucius
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QUESTIONS
1. Given the different career and life choices , were you able to
decide where to go after senior high school?
2. Did you find it helpful 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?
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APPLICATION
Reasons Behind My Choices
1. Distribute Activity Sheet 1. 2 to the learners.
2. Allow the learners to reflect and accomplish the activity sheet.
3. Learners will go to their original groupings and share their
reflections with the group.
4. After the small group sharing, ask a representative from each
group to share what they have discussed during the small group
sharing.
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Activity: Reasons Behind My Choices
Directions: Draw shapes inside the big circle
to represent the factors which influenced you
in choosing your profession/ vocation. The
size of each shape may vary according to the
degree of its influence in your career
decision-making.
-Family - Personal - Social
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Sample
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VII. EVALUATION
Knowing the Right Choice
Identify three professions/careers that you would possibly
pursue, enumerate the factors affecting your choices, and write
your insights about your choices.
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VII. EVALUATION
Knowing the Right Choice
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