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Personal Development
Self-Learning Module
Quarter 2: Weeks 7 & 8
Module 7: Career Pathways

Module 8: Insights into One’s Personal

Development

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 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Learning Activity Module
Module 7: Career Pathways

Name ____________________________________________ Q2W7

Section _______________________________________________ Date ______________

What it is
(Background Information for the Learner – Key Concepts)

Career is the integration of personality with work activities. It is a sequence of attitudes

and behaviors that are associated with work and that relates to one’s total life experiences.
This is also considered as a life goal.

Career plan is a map that a person uses in planning where he wants to be in the future
in terms of his profession or career. This process entails deep understanding of self and strong
drive to pursue one’s aspiration. Self-awareness is the most crucial part since a person will
determine his strength, areas for improvement, personal values, personality type, interest and
skills. There has to be a clear preference to consciously set direction such as the nature of
work, kind of workplace, type of superior and colleague he wants to work with.

Factors influencing career choices

Values. Values are one’s internal compass. They are set of self-motivators that indicate or
consider the most important in life. They are most of the time the standards used by a person
in making important decisions in life.

Personality. Personality is the sum total of one’s complex set of tendencies, behavior,
attitudes and characteristics that makes a person unique. This may be attributed to innate
characteristics or influenced by the larger society.

Interest. Interests are sets of preferences in activities. They are usually one’s persons likes,
things where he tends to spend most of his resources, time, energy and money.

Skills. Skills are sets of competencies a person has. These are mastery over some tasks that
are useful in performing bigger or more complicated jobs. This implies that skills have started
as interest where a person has spent a significant amount of time to achieve a certain level of
proficiency.

Family and peer influence. Education is important for Filipino families. The parent work hard
for better education of their children. One of the challenging parts of being a parent is when

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their child reaches collegiate level due to overwhelming expenses and at the same time there
is a pride and honor when their child finishes bachelor’s degree. On the other hand, the
children are pressured in selecting what career they will choose. As to whether they will pursue
the field of their interest or they will choose what their parents want them to take up to earn
more in order to provide for the family.

Peer pressure is generally attributed to the influence exerted by a peer group in encouraging
a person to change his or her attitudes, values, or behavior in order to conform to group norms.
It can have both the negative and the positive side. It has a deep impact on one's decision
making ability, especially when it comes to choosing a course or a career path. At times leads
to the ‘herding concept', wherein one follows the group blindly, without having a clear
understanding of the consequences and assessing his or her strengths and weaknesses.

A person’s career choice and life goals are greatly influenced by the interplay of his values,
personality, interest, skills, family and peer influence. His job satisfaction, sense of fulfillment,
success at the workplace and general well-being may depend on his choices and are aligned
with what he believes to be important.

What I need to Know

After going through this module, you are expected to:
1. prepare a career plan based on the identified career options to attain personal life’s
goals
2. explain the factors in personal development that may guide him/her in making career
decisions as adolescents
Codes: EsP-PD11/12CP-IIh-i-12.3
EsP-PD11/12CP-IIh-i-14.1

What I Know

Activity 1. Getting to know yourself

Directions: This activity allows you to get to know yourself better. The following are guide
questions that will help you in choosing your field of profession. Answer them on a clean sheet
of paper. Submit to your teacher for checking/evaluating

1. What is your own definition of career?

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2. As a graduating student, what course do you plan to take in college? Why?
3. What are the factors that led you in choosing that career/profession?
4. What will be your plan in order to achieve your chosen career?
5. What is your perception about this statement from Confucius?
“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

What’s In

Activity 2. Johari’s Window

Johari’s Window is a technique for improving self-awareness within an individual. It
helps in understanding your relationship with yourself and others. There are four boxes in
Johari’s Window.

Directions: Fill in each box with the necessary concepts, ideas and explanations regarding
your career path. Do the activity in a clean sheet of paper.

BOX 1 BOX 2
My Personal Career Choice Me and My Friends’ Career Choice

BOX 3 BOX 4
My Parent’s Choice for Me Other Careers that I like to Explore

What’s New

Activity 3. My Bio Poem

Directions: This activity will help you imagine your future in your chosen profession. You are
going to create a simple poem by completing each line based on the information being asked.
Write your answers on a clean sheet of paper and submit to your teacher for
checking/evaluating.

Line 1: I am (state your full name)

Line 2: I have chosen (career of choice) as a profession
Line 3: I can do (write something important that you can do in this career)

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 Line 4: I will be helped by (persons that may help you in achieving your career)
Line 5. I am planning to (state your plan or steps on how to accomplish your profession)

What’s More

Activity 4. Statements on Career Pathways

Directions: State whether the statement is True or False. Write your answers on a clean sheet
of paper and submit to your teacher for checking/evaluating.

1. Career is the integration of personality with work activities.

2. Values is the sum total of one’s complex sets of tendencies and behaviors that makes a

person unique.

3. Personality is a mastery of task that are useful in performing complicated jobs.

4. People spending time alone (introvert) is an example of personality.

5. Peace, Career and education are examples of values.

6. Career is also considered a life goal.

7. Peer influence is only viewed to have a positive effect on one’s careers choice.

8. Education is not valued in a normal Filipino family setting.

9. Career is dependent only in his own satisfaction.

10. Interests are sets of preferences where the person spends most of resources, time, energy

and money.

What I have learned

Activity 5. My Career Plan

Directions: Create your own career plan based on the guide concepts presented below. Write
your answers on a clean sheet of paper and submit to your teacher for checking/evaluating.

1. Who Am I?
A. What do I enjoy doing?
B. What skills do I have that I can offer to my work?
C. What are my personal values?
2. Where I am going?
A. What are my top 3 objectives?
B. What kind of workplace am I looking for?

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 C. What kind of boss/ superior do I want to work for?
D. What things do I want to learn from my workplace?
E. How will I know if I am succeeding? What are the indicators for success?
3. How do I get there?
A. in which companies do I want to work? (3 companies)
B. What skills do I need to posses to be qualified for the job?
C. Who can guide me or teach me more about my chosen field?
D. Where will this job take me 1 year from now?
E. What do I want to reach in the next 5 years?

What can I do

Activity 6. Personal Reflection

Directions: Write your insights gained from the lesson by completing the following phrases.
Write your answers on a clean sheet of paper and submit to your teacher for
checking/evaluating.
1. I learned that …
2. I felt …
3. I would (action to be taken) …

Assessment

Activity 7: This is a task that aims to evaluate your level of mastery in achieving the learning
competencies of this module.

Directions: Write the letter of your choice on a clean sheet of paper submit to your teacher
for checking/evaluation.

1. James is enjoying most of his time reading newspapers than playing basketball with his
friends. This is a factor that influences career choice.
a. values b. interest c. skills d. peer influence
2. Allan was hired as an internal auditor and discovered an anomaly. He was weighing
whether he will report it to the company or not. This is a factor that influences Allan’s choice.
a. personality b. skills c. values d. life goal
3. This is a map that a person uses in planning where he wants to be in the future in terms of
his profession.

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 a. career b. life goal c. interest d. career plan
4. This is the most crucial part of career planning where a person is aware of his own strength
and weaknesses.
a. skills b. family influence c. self-awareness d. personality
5. A person who enjoys being alone, spending time with very few people and engaging in deep
conversation is an example of this factor that influence career choice.
a. personality b. skills c. interest d. family influence
6. This is of great value to Filipino families.
a. career b. education c. skills d. peer influence
7. Julia is the eldest. She takes care of her family and actively supports them financially. She
helps her parents with the household expenses. This situation is an example of one of the
factors that influences career choice.
a. family influence b. peer influence c. skills d. personality
8. This is defined as a set of competencies that a person has which plays a vital role in career
success and sustainability.
a. career b. values c. skills d. family influence
9. These are internal compass that sets motivation that indicates what is the most important
in life.
a. values b. career c. skills d. career plan
10. Annie is best friend with Aimee. They were talking about their plans after they graduated
from senior high school. They have been friends for a long time so they don’t want to be
separated. They both decided to take nursing as their chosen career. This is an example
of what factor that influence career choice.
a. skills b. peer influence c. family influence d. personality

Additional Activity

Activity 8: Family tree

This activity allows you to analyze the careers of your family members. This might help you
achieve better career choice for your future.

Directions: Write the professions of your family members starting from the father’s
grandparents, mother’s grandparents, father’s parents, mother’s parents, your father’s
profession, mother’s profession and lastly, your plan of profession. Try to analyze the family
tree and write your explanation. Do this on a clean sheet of paper.

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 Analysis of My Family Tree

References:

BPI foundation. 2016. BPI -SHAPE Personal Development Resource Book. Pages 194-196, 164-
166, BPI head office building, Paseo de Roxas. Makati city. BPI foundation

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Fernandez, B. Legaspi, E. Quiba, C, Rafanan, M, Garcia Z. 2016. Personal Development. Reader.
First edition. Pages 122-127. Quezon city. Department of Education

Career family tree and career genogram. Retrieved from

https://www.pinterest.ph/pin/34691859604275330/
Into to business communication. Johari window. Retrieved from
https://www.toppr.com/guides/business-communication-and-ethics/intro-to-business-
communication/johari-window/
4 fun career planning activities for secondary students. Stainlage T., October 8, 2014.
Retrieved from https://www.kuder.com/blog/career-counseling-coaching/4-fun-career-
planning-activities-for-secondary-students/

Prepared by:

AARON N. CALMA
ACSCI -SHS

Submitted to:

EDGARDO S. NUNAG
EPSvr 1: EsP

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 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Learning Activity Module
Module 8: Insights into One’s Personal Development
Name: _____________________________________________ Q2W8

Section: _______________________________________________ Date: _____________

What is it
(Background Information for the Learner – Key Concepts)

What’s your life mission? It’s not an easy question to answer, but an important
one. You can talk about your aspirations and goals all day, but when you write them,
they become, well, more real. It’s a starting point to living the life you want. When
you write a personal mission statement, you’re clarifying what you want to
accomplish and how, and committing to it. Businesses and nonprofit organizations
develop mission statements for the same reason.
What is a personal mission statement?
Personal mission statements is more than just your goals. Your mission
statement will help you sort out your priorities and how you want to live your life. It
may include short-term and long-term goals, or life-long aspirations. It becomes a
guide and provides direction, which comes from you, not someone else.
The Importance of Personal Development Factors in Career Decisions and More
Personal development factors are valuable in making career choices. It is
difficult for someone to enter into a career pressured by outside factors. When a
career in nursing was popular many years ago due to a high demand in the
international job market, many parents forced their sons and daughters to engage in
the profession despite the lack of interest and personal factors that match the
demand of the profession. What was given high value was earning more due to the
idea of living a comfortable life that the parents visualized for themselves and their
children.
There is nothing wrong with visualizing a comfortable life. However, the
individual must look within himself or herself to discover his or her true ambitions
and life goals. Among all other personal factors, there is that inner space and voice
that one needs to listen to. That is the voice that tells each of us which path to take
to fulfill one’s mission. Thus, parents have to respect and support their son’s and

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daughter’s in their decisions. Each one is called to tread on a path for a purpose. It
cannot just be all about earning money.
Creative Visualization
Visualization refers to the process of looking forward and seeing your desires
and aspirations happening. Our mind and imagination can go as far as you allow it
to explore and its creativity is beyond limit. You could visualize yourself as a
millionaire owning huge properties, cars, businesses or even richer than Bill Gates
and Manny Pacquiao. You can visualize yourself singing like Beyonce or Regine
Velasquez. You can paint even if reality says you don’t know how.
You may have gone through different challenges and stressors in your life as
you shared in the previous lessons. However, you could pick yourself up and find
hope and promise for the future. Being positive about life counts a lot. The process
of visualization empowers you and help you face such challenge in the future. You
can become the person you visualize.
Bo Sanchez, in his book 8 Secrets of the Truly Rich, shared his “True
Millionaire’s Prayer” to help you realize what it really means to be rich:

“Today I ask You to bless me so that I may become a blessing Lord,

I commit myself to enrich others. But because I cannot give what I do not
have, I commit myself to become rich. I commit myself to serve You and to
serve the poor with my wealth. Today, I open myself to the abundance of
Your universe. Use me as your channel of love. Give me the ability to create
wealth that will bless the world. Increase my financial wisdom and expand
my territories. I place my life in Your hands. Amen.”
Financial goal: ______________________________

Date when this goal will happen: _____________

Date Today: _________________________________

-Bo Sanchez, 8 Secrets of the Truly Rich (2007)

Sanchez (2007) did not just teach us to visualize but to be completely

committed to one’s vision. He specifically gives his readers a guide through a form of
prayer with a financial goal written and the date the goal will happen. In
visualization, you don’t see things to happen. You see things now and claim it
happening at present.

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Making a Firm Stand on Career Choices
Career choice should be taken seriously. Many professionals choose their
course program in college and find out later that they are not happy with it. Taking
a firm stand comes from a full knowledge of self and different options for career. But
more than anything, it is important to listen and follow one’s heart. According to Bo
Sanchez, the truly rich person knows how to give. Part of his intention to be rich is
to reach out to those who may need them.
Thus, the desire for riches and success in life should not only serve one’s
purpose. It should not be for popularity and inflating our egos. The essential truth
about having a career is to partake in the mission of serving others.
Development means a state of being developed or progression into higher and
much better standards. Applying this concept to personal development illustrates a
goal of a much better and improved version of oneself. This will help you in your
journey towards discovery and growth in the person.
Go, grow, and glow. Shine like that beautiful star shedding some light and be
a good role model to other adolescents. Choose your path wisely and make a
difference in the lives of other people especially when you practice your career
someday.

What I need to Know

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. share insights that make him/her realize the importance of personal

development in making a career decision as adolescent and
2. construct a creative visualization of his/her personal development through
of the various stages he/she went through, stressors, influences, and
decision-making points, and a personal profile analysis.
Codes: EsP- PD11/12IOPD-Iii-h-14.2
EsP-PD11/12IOPD-IIj-14.3

What I Know

Activity 1. A. My Personal Development Journey: A Personal Profile Analysis

Directions: Revisit your outputs from all the activities (lessons 1-7) and fill in the
second column in the table below stating your significant discoveries about yourself
(physical, emotional, psychological growth) and essential learnings. Write your

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answers on a clean sheet of paper and submit it to the teacher for
evaluation/correction.
Lesson No. and Title Significant Discovery about oneself
(physical, emotional, psychological
growth, or any learning experiences)
and essential learnings.
Lesson 1:

B. Present your snapshot of your PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT IMAGE. This may be

a drawing, song composition, or any creative art that illustrates your insights and
reflections in the subject. Write your answers on a clean sheet of paper and submit
it to the teacher for evaluation/correction.

What’s In

Activity 2. I am Successful

Directions: Spend 5 to 10 minutes in silence. Visualize yourself being successful

or visualize an image of success and draw an image or symbol of success below.
Use clean sheets of paper in doing the following activities and submit them to the
teacher for evaluation/correction.

MY IMAGE OF SUCCESS

1. How do you associate the image or symbol to success?

2. What is success for you as an adolescent?
3. What is your general impression of the symbol you created for success? How
would you live up to your image of success? What specific things would you
do to be able to attain it?

What’s New

Activity 3. Personal Mission Statement

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Directions: Use clean sheets of paper in doing the following activities and submit
them to the teacher for evaluation/correction.

STEP 1: Divide your paper into four columns, and label them as follows:
List 1: 3-5 things I want most out of life
List 2: 3-5 things I want to see happen on the planet
List 3: 3-5 things I believe that make me special
List 4: 3-5 improvements in my life that I can do or things that I can achieve now
STEP 2: Looking at your lists, circle the most important item from each
column.
Ask yourself… “Which of these most resonate with me”. Choosing the most may
sometimes be difficult, so be willing to sit for a while with your thoughts and
feelings.
STEP 3: Using each of the four choices you encircled, complete the statement
by filling in the blanks.
I will __________________________________, using my ________________________,
(Take the circled item from List 4) (Take the circled item from List 3)

to accomplish ____________________________, and in doing so, also achieve

(Take the circled item from List 2)

_______________________________________.
(Take the circled item from List 1)

STEP 4: Save and view your personal mission statement often

Write your personal mission statement on a clean piece of paper and hang it where
you will see it often. Let your purpose be your guide when making your choices,
setting your goals, staying on track and truly living your life.

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 What’s More

Activity 4. Personal Development: Hindsight and Foresight

Directions: Use clean pieces of paper or notebook in doing the following activities
and submit them to the teacher for evaluation/correction.

FRAMEWORK OF SUCCESS
Set three goals in each category and identify your first action step in
achieving each goal.
HAPPINESS (How will you have the life HEALTH (How will you maintain the
you love?) energy required to extend your
influence?)
YOUR
SUCCESS

GROWTH (How are you going to be PURPOSE (How do you keep yourself
better tomorrow?) going?)

What I have learned

Activity 5. Essential Learning

Directions: Write the insights, concepts, ideas or realizations that you have gained
from this lesson on a clean piece of paper and submit it to the teacher for
evaluation/correction.

What can I do

Activity 6. Personal Reflection

Directions: Use clean pieces of paper or notebook in doing this and submit them to
the teacher for evaluation/correction.

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Write an essay on your journey through this course on Personal Development using
the following questions as your guide. How have you changed since the beginning of
this semester? What have you discovered about yourself? What activities and reading
were most useful to you? What will you do in order to continue your personal
development after this course?

Assessment

Directions: Use clean pieces of paper or notebook in doing the following activities
and submit them to the teacher for evaluation/correction.

A. This is a task that aims to evaluate your level of mastery in achieving the learning
competencies of this module. Write the letter of your choice on the space provided.

_______1. It refers to process whereby all personal characteristics and constructs are
gathered to be deciphered and analyzed, and from these, implications and
insights are drawn to gain a fuller understanding of oneself.
a. Personal development c. Profile analysis
b. Personal journal d. Research
_______2. Rodel wants to see himself what he would be like in the future so he closes
his eyes, and expands his imagination and even went into the depth of
visualizing that he feels that it is happening now. What specific process is
Rodel using?
a. Creativity c. Psychoanalysis
b. Creative visualization d. Career path analysis
_______3. The author Bo Sanchez from the book 8 Secrets of the Truly Rich states that
visualizing your goal is not enough; you have to be completely committed
to it. What is implied in the statement?
a. Focus and action c. Claim your visualization
b. Dreams come true d. Word of honor
_______4. Our mind and imagination can go as far as you allow it to explore. This
means that our mind______________________.
a. can create a snapshot of career
b. can wonder about many things
c. has creativity that is beyond limit
d. can imagine and is fixed to a goal

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_______5. Choose your path wisely and make a difference in the lives of other people.
This statement implies_____________________.
a. to create and imagine wisely
b. to produce a different breed of leaders
c. to consider wisdom in decision-making
d. to choose a career that will positively affect others

B. Write T if the statement or phrase is True and F if false.

_______6. Revisiting the compilation of all activities from the previous lessons will
help one create an image of one’s personal development and growth.
_______7. Visualization refers to the process of looking forward and seeing one’s
desires and aspirations happening at present.
_______8. Personal development is highly important in career choice, however, there
is a need to look deeper into oneself and listen to that inner movement that
leads one to peace and quiet.
_______9. Taking a firm stand comes from a full knowledge of self and the different
option for a career. But more than anything, one must listen and follow
one’s heart.
_______10. The essential truth about having a career is to partake in the mission of
serving others.

Additional Activity

Read and analyze the quote below. In 3-5 sentences, write your insight about the
quote on a clean piece of paper and submit it to the teacher for evaluation/
correction.

“A truly rich person knows how to give and serve others”.

References:

Fernandez, B. Legaspi, E. Quiba, C, Rafanan, M, Garcia Z. 2016. Personal Development.

Reader. First edition. Pages 130-131. Quezon city. Department of Education

Libed, Glenda D. Ph.D., Borres Jerwin S.2018. Personal Development, A Worktext for
Senior High School Students. Pages 152-160. C & E Publishing, Inc.,Quezon City.

How to Write a Personal Mission Statement. Retrieved from

https://www.pinterest.ph/pin/322851867019806268/

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Framework of Success. Retrieved from
https://www.pinterest.ph/pin/306948530857129870/

Prepared: Submitted to;

ANGELINE G. PINEDA EDGARDO S. NUNAG

SST III EPSvr 1: EsP
Amsic Integrated School

Answer Key: Module 7

Key answers to activity 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8
Answers may vary. This activity is based on student’s own perception, there are no right or wrong
answers.
Key answer to activity 4: Key answers to Activity 7
1. true 1. b
2. false 2. c
3. false 3. d
4. true 4. c
5. true 5. a
6. true 6. b
7. false 7. a
8. false 8. c
9. false 9. a
10. true 10. b

Answer Key: Module 8

Key answers to activity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and additional activity

Answers may vary. This activity is based on student’s own perception, there are no
right or wrong answers. (students will be graded according to the rubrics provided
by teachers)
Key answer to assessment:
1. a 6. T
2. b 7. T
3. c 8. T
4. c 9. T
5. d 10. T

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