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Empowered to Take Off !

CAREER GUIDANCE PROGRAM

Teacher’s Manual

(As of August 30, 2017)

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Topic: Ready to Take Off !

Introduction:
Congratulations, your learners are now ready to create their Lifelong Learning Plan and
to conduct personal and career development activities that will help them grow and advance in
their life and career!
From the previous module, your learners identified the rights and responsibilities of the
employees and employers. They also learned the importance of work values and work ethics in
becoming successful in one’s chosen career, and evaluated extrinsic and intrinsic motivation for
sustainable work satisfaction.
In this final module, you will guide your learners to conduct their career development
gap analysis and develop their lifelong learning plan. Your learners should be aware that their
lifelong learning plan will determine the kind of citizens they will be in the future. They will also
be asked to write their original career philosophy expressing their love and passion in their
chosen career.
Fasten your seatbelt and get ready for exciting and challenging tasks ahead of you!
Time Allotment: 120 Minutes
Motivation 15 minutes
Main Activity 25 minutes
Lecturette 20 minutes
Application 35 minutes
Reflection 15 minutes
Evaluation 10 minutes

Materials:
● Computer/Laptop
● LCD Projector
● MS PPT Presentation
● Runway Mystery Words Game – Interactive PPT
● Career Destination Plot
● Lifelong Learning Plan Worksheet
● Letter to My Future Self Worksheet
● Meta strips (blue, red, and yellow)
● Crayons/colored pens/pentel pens
● Masking tapes

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● White cartolina/manila paper
● Markers and Pencils
● Grade 11 Goal Setting Activity Sheet
● Module 5 Mission Statement
● Video Clip of Quotations
● 6 copies of Airplane templates for the Reflection Activity

I. Objectives:

At the end of this module, the learners are expected to:

1. Identify lifelong learning strategies to grow in a chosen career
2. Create a Lifelong Learning Plan
3. Express love and passion to one’s chosen career

II. Motivation: (15 minutes)

MS PowerPoint Interactive Game
Runway Word Puzzle: Help Gio to take off from the runway by unscrambling the
mystery words:
C R E R E A D A N V C E A N E M T

I L L L I R

F E N O G E N N A G
GP A N A L S I S A Y

G H I N C O C A

G L O A

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Note: In case, computers and projectors are not available to play this game, the teacher
is encouraged to prepare an improvised instructional material for this activity or write the
letters of the mystery words on the board.
Process Questions:
1. How did you find the activity?
2. What do these mystery words mean to you?
3. Do you think that you can further grow or progress after landing a job, having a
vocation or establishing a business? How?

III. Main Activity: (25 Minutes)

My Career Destination Plot
Note: Before the activity, the teacher will draw the Career Destination Plot (see Appendix ___
on Manila Paper/Cartolina using a pentel pen)
Procedure:
Instruct the learners to review their Grade 11 Module 8 Goal-Setting Activity output and
assess their accomplishments vis-à-vis their target goals. This will lead them to
acknowledge their shortcomings and encourage them to desire knowing other lifelong
learning strategies, which they will need upon they exit Senior High School and grow in
their chosen careers and lives.

Sequence of the activity:

1. Give back the Grade 11 Module 8 Goal-Setting activity sheets to their respective
owners.
2. Instruct the learners to take a look at their Grade 11 Module 8 Goal-Setting Activity
Sheets and review their long-term, mid-term, and short-term goals.
3. Distribute 3 meta-strips (1 blue, 1 red and 1 yellow) to each of the learners.
4. Instruct the learners to write on the blue meta strip the goals which they have
already accomplished since they targeted them in Grade 11; on the red meta-strip
the goals which they were not able to accomplish but which they think they really
need to accomplish in 1to 5 years; and on the yellow meta-strip those goals which
they still want to pursue in 6 to 20 years. Inform them that they are allotted 10
minutes for this activity. Mount the Career Destination Plot on the board/wall.
Instruct the learner to post all their blue meta-strips at the bottom area labelled designated for
achieved goals; the red meta-strips at the middle area labeled with 1-5 years target
and the yellow meta-strips at the topmost area.

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Career Destination Plot

Process Questions
After the activity, ask the learners the following questions:
1. How did you find the activity?
2. What percent of your short-term goals did you already accomplish? Enumerate these
goals.
3. What short-term goals were you not able to accomplish yet? What midterm and
long-term goals do you still want to pursue?
4. What realization do you have now after comparing your accomplishment with your
set target? (To deepen their realization on the lifelong learning gaps which they need
to fill-in, and connect them to the next activity, ask the students to choose their pair
and discuss question number 5 in 5 minutes.)
5. Aside from your reflected career goals, what other goals do you want to achieve in
your spiritual, personal, and social life? Do you think you already possess all the
lifelong learning skills you need to truly succeed and advance in life and career?
(Make this question as a springboard to the lecturette).

IV. Lecturette: (20 Minutes)

Lifelong Learning Strategies

Now that you are very certain about your preferred life and career, you might
wonder, what is next after landing on your dream job or getting your desired profession
or vocation? Learning should never stop once you became employed, you need to

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continuously improve and undergo lifelong learning activities that can help you grow in
your chosen profession and reach your ultimate career goal. Lifelong learning is
composed of different strategies or activities that can help you improve continuously in
knowledge, skills and other competencies that are important in your life and career.
Lifelong learning strategies include, but are not limited to the following programs or
activities:

1. Graduate school programs (e.g. Master of Science in Criminal Justice,

Master in Business Administration, and Doctorate Courses)
2. Adult learning courses, distance education programs, and online webinars
(e.g. TESDA Online Courses, UP Open University and Livelihood
Trainings)
3. On-campus training events (e.g. seminars, workshops, special speakers, etc.)
4. Off-campus conferences, conventions, and workshops (e.g. National
Conferences for Educators, Nurse Practitioner Conference, and others)
5. A personal structured reading plan focused on a particular area of
development (e.g. Reading plan for improving leadership skills)
6. Mentoring or coaching by immediate supervisors/managers
7. An in-house action research project.
8. Social networking (e.g. LinkedIn)

The Lifelong Learning Plan

It is a human nature to desire progress. According to Victor Lipman of Forbes,
the possibility for “career advancement is an especially powerful job motivator. Writing a
plan on how you want to progress in your career will give you a clear path on how you
can grow in your chosen life and career.
For you to grow and become successful in your own chosen life and career path
you need to develop a plan for your advancement. Lifelong Learning Plan is a written
plan that will serve as a road map to your voluntary, ongoing and self-motivated pursuit
of development for either personal or professional growth. You need to set goals for
your improvement, set time frames to accomplish these goals and identify resources and
key persons that can help you achieve these goals.

The Three Aspects of Your Lifelong Learning Plan

The career aspect will give you a structure on career advancement that will
guide you on the things that you need to do and to go where you want to go in your
career, like your transition from entry-level position to managerial position. In the social
aspect of your LLP, you will be guided on how to establish social linkages in your career
and expand your network. While in the personal aspect, you will identify key areas for

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personal growth and will make you prepared for important transitions in life, like setting
a plan to marry and have your own family. This is based on the notion that your personal
life may affect your career and vice-versa.
Process Questions:
1. What are the different lifelong learning activities that you can undergo to
continuously grow in your chosen career and life?
2. Why do you think it is necessary to conduct Career Gap Analysis in creating your
Lifelong Learning Plan?
3. What is Lifelong Learning Plan? How can it help you as a graduating student?

V. Application: (35 Minutes)

At this time, the learners already have preferred SHS curriculum exit and clear career roadmap
on how they want to progress in their chosen career and life. For this activity, the
learners will create their Lifelong Learning Plan.
Give each learner the copy of Lifelong Learning Plan Worksheet found in Appendix ___.
MY LIFELONG LEARNING PLAN
Name: ____________________________________
Track and Strand: ___________________________________
Though there is no prescribed procedure in creating a Lifelong Learning Plan,
the following are the suggested steps that one can undertake to come up with an
effective career progression plan:
1. Start by identifying your areas of improvement
After being employed or hired in your desired profession or vocation, you can still advance in
that career and aspire to reach a higher status. The initial step is to identify areas
of improvement in knowledge, skills, competencies, and values that you need to
prioritize in achieving your career goals. This can be done through a Career Gap
Analysis, wherein you will compare your current situation to your career goals,
then describe what you need to accomplish in order to achieve them.

Below is how you should accomplish your Gap Analysis:

Life and Career Aspects Goal Current Gap
Situation Description
Career/Position/Designation To become a Grade 12 I need BS and
(Refer to Module 4 Secondary School HUMMS at least Master’s
Worksheet) Principal student degree
education while
earning the

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work
experience
required

A. Career Aspects
1. Career To possess Zero I need to
Knowledge/Informatio relevant knowledge acquire
n knowledge in in school information
school management about school
management management
2. Career Skills/Experience To be a good I am serving I need to have
leader as Class more
Vice-Preside leadership
nt experiences
B. Social To establish I have I need to link
Values/Networking connections with savings but I with agencies/
Aspect (Refer to Module agencies or know it people that can
6 Worksheet) organizations wouldn’t be provide
enough for scholarship or
my financial help
schooling for my studies
C. Personal Values Aspect To be more I usually I need to learn
(Refer to Module 6 and organize and cram before how to use time
7 Worksheets) improve my time exams and management
management skill submissions tools and
and my strategies to
room is in organize my
total mess stuff

2. Set objectives based on your gap analysis

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Remember that goals and objectives must be SMART, which means specific, measurable,
achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Restate your gap description into objective
as shown below.
Gap Description Objectives
I need to acquire the qualifications To be appointed as Secondary School
for Principal I by finishing my BS and Principal I after 12 years.
Master’s degree education while
earning the work experience
required.

3. Write your plans to bridge the gap.

Now, let us work with the main part of your Lifelong Learning Plan. The objectives that
you set will bridge the gap in your career progression. However, to ensure the
accomplishment of these objectives, you need to identify lifelong learning
activities, key persons and resources involved in achieving your life and career
goals. It is also important to make your objectives time-bound and set mode of
verification as proof of your objectives’ attainment:

Gap Bridging Plan

Objectives Lifelong Resources Time Mode of
Learning Frame Verification
Persons Materials/
Strategies (Proof of
Financial
Accomplishment)
To be -Traditional Parents, Scholarships 2018-20 Appointment
appointed as tertiary and relatives, P100,000 27 Paper as
Secondary graduate teachers, Principal I
Principal I education guidance
after 12 counselor
years

To fill in the lifelong learning activities or strategies column, you can choose from the list of
lifelong learning strategies discussed in this module, the best activity that will
close the gap between your career goals and your present realities.
No man is an island, the cliché goes. To achieve your career goals, you need key persons that
can help you accomplish your objectives for personal and career development.
Your family, friends, colleagues, mentors or coaches, department heads,
supervisors, even spiritual or financial advisers can actually be part of the key
persons involved in your career development.

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Career advancement is also an investment, you need to allot financial or materials resources to
accomplish doable tasks that will help you achieve your set objectives.
Your LLP should be time bound, setting time frame for each objective to accomplish will
somehow help you monitor your progress and achieve your goals on time.
Mode of verification is an actual evidence of your outcome after doing a particular lifelong
learning activity. It can be a certificate of participation in a training or workshop,
a coaching or mentoring form, or Transcript of Records after finishing your
Master’s degree.
For sample output, refer to Appendix __.

VI. Reflection: (15 minutes)

My Career Philosophy
Note: Before the activity, have 6 copies of the airplane template (refer to Appendix ___). Cut
out the airplane figures according to the number of members in every group.
Procedure
Let the class go over their written mission statement in
Module 5. Show the video clip of compiled
quotations on career and success to set the tone.
In case, computer and projector are not available,
the teacher is encouraged to prepare an
improvised instructional material for this activity
or write the quotations on the board.
Ask a volunteer to pick one quote and share their thoughts in a sentence. Lead
the class in writing their own career philosophy.
Ask the learners to group themselves into 6. Cut out parts of airplane equivalent
to the number of members in every group. Distribute the airplane cutouts and present
the sample career philosophy and the blank template to the class. Ask them to write
their career philosophies on the cutout given to each, following the template guide. Let
each group put together all the airplane puzzle cutouts and post them on the wall. Tell
them that the plane’s cockpit should be facing upward as what they want their career to
be soaring up high.

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VII. Evaluation: (10 minutes)

Write a Letter to Your Future Self

Procedure: After setting a clear path of career progression through their Lifelong Learning Plan,
the learners will write a letter about their future self, five years from now. Instruct
the students to consider the following questions in writing their letters. They can use
their mother tongue language to feel more comfortable in expressing themselves:

1. What do I like about myself right now? (Ano ano ang mga katangiang meron ako na
gusto ko?)
2. What are the things that I need to improve in my life right now? (Ano ang mga
katangiang kailangan ko pang paunlarin?)
3. What are the things that I should have accomplished after five years? (Ano anong
mga layunin ang dapat na nakamit ko na limang taon mula ngayon?)
4. What are the goals and dreams that I want to achieve in my career and life? (Ano ano
ang aking mga pangarap at layunin sa aking karera at buhay?)
5. Why am I passionate about my chosen career and life? (Bakit lubos kong nais ang
aking napiling karera?)

Example:

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VIII. Agreement:
Procedure:
1. Ask the learners to implement at least one task identified from Lifelong Learning
Plan (LLP). The teacher-adviser should coordinate with the work-immersion
teacher to track down the learners’ records in Work Immersion Monitoring and
Evaluation Tool (Annex F in DO no. 30, s. 2017), coaching and mentoring data
and special tasks and trainings.
2. After completing the eight modules for this career guidance program, ask them
to compile all the worksheets from Module 1 to 8 and add these to their Career
Guidance Program Portfolio. The teacher-adviser should collect the portfolio for
evaluation. Return the portfolios to the learners for continuous
guidance/coaching for career and life progression.

Session 1
Activity Worksheet 1.1: My Occupational Interest
Activity Worksheet 1.2: Bio-Data/Activity Worksheet 1.3: Business Permit/
Activity Worksheet 1.4: College Application Form/ Activity Worksheet 1.5:
TESDA National Certification
Activity Worksheet 1.6: My Entry Point in the Exit
Activity Worksheet 1.7: My Meaningful Exit from Senior High School
Activity Worksheet 1.4: My Plan to Exit

Session 2
Activity Worksheet 2.1: Let’s Make It Work
Activity Worksheet 2.2: Hierarchy of C’s
Activity Worksheet 2.3: Shaping Up Slip

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Session 3
Activity Worksheet 3.1: Career Analysis Profile

Session 4
Activity Worksheet 4.1: Informational Interview Template
Activity Worksheet 4.2: Worksheet for Reflection (Trail)
Activity Worksheet 4.3: Career Road Map
Activity Worksheet 4.4: Worksheet for Evaluation (Male and Female Shoes)

Session 5
Activity Worksheet 5.1: Sample Worksheet for Personal Statement
Activity Worksheet 5.2: Picture for 5-Minute Misyon

Session 6
Activity Worksheet 6.1: Mine Me (Alternative Activity: Fix Me)
Activity Worksheet 6.2: Side A, Side B
Activity Worksheet 6.3: Re-Routing Values
Activity Worksheet 6.4: Look Ahead

Session 7
Activity Worksheet 7.1: Transition
Activity Worksheet 7.2: Version of Me. 2.0

Session 8
Activity Worksheet 8.1: Lifelong Learning Plan
Activity Worksheet 8.2: My Career Philosophy
Activity Worksheet 8.3: Letter to My Future Self

References:
● Department of Education and Science. Learning for Life: Paper on Adult
Education. Dublin: Stationery Office. 2000 [cited 10 August 2017]. Available
from <http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED471201.pdf>.
● Garver, Louise. How to Develop a Personal/Professional Development Plan
(PDP) [Online]. 2017 [cited 10 August 2017]. Available from: <
https://careerdirectionsllc.com/develop-management-development-plan/>.

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● Lipman, Victor. The Motivational Value of Clear Career Paths [Online]. 2013
[cited 10 August 2017]. Available from:
<https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/10/19/the-motivational-val
ue-of-clear-career-paths/#271a93c247f3>.
● Waddle, Greg. A Guide for Writing a Professional Development Plan. Mid-South
Christian College. April (2009): 1-5.

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