Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Caraga Administrative Region
Division of Agusan del Sur
PATIN-AY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
(Carved- Out School from ASSAT/DepEd Accredited Technical Vocational High School)
(Operating Unit – Empowered)
D.O. Plaza Government Center, Patin-ay Prosperidad Agusan del Sur

CAREER GUIDANCE
ADVOCACY PROGRAM
FOR GRADE 12
STUDENTS

Module 4
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Myself in Other’s Shoes

Introduction

As the old-aged saying goes, the

role of the teacher is to open doors of
possibilities to learners like you.
However, it is you who will decide
the path that you want to take and to
choose the journey you will embark
towards the realization of what you
envision to become.

This module will help you realize

that your dreams in the future could
be achieved a step closer with the

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 help of people who are in the profession or business that you envision to be in the future.
Your inputs through the different activities that you will undergo in this module will
keep your enthusiasm burning to pursue your career choice.

Continue the learning journey through this module and affirm more your desire of
becoming who you want to be in the future.

I. Objectives
At the end of this module, the students are expected to:
1. analyze information gathered from people that will help affirm their decision in
choosing the career or curriculum exit;
2. evaluate the role of selected people with the chosen career or curriculum exit in
terms of their beliefs, attitude, and skills; and
3. make a career road map as an expression of commitment to one’s chosen career
or curriculum exit.

II. Motivation

Brisk Walk Down Memory Lane

Where are you now in terms of achieving your dreams? What have you already
done? Are you already geared up to take a step farther? Have you taken a brisk walk
down your memory lane? Recall various milestones in your plan of action toward
the realization of your dreams. Here is a poem that will help you revisit your
decisions. Afterwards, reflect by answering the follow-up questions.

Chasing Dreams
You’ve come this far,
Where else would you want to go?
You’ve reached this far,
What else would you want to do?

Chase your dreams.

Follow your heart.
Keep moving forward.
Always pray hard.

Life offers a lot of choices

But do not make a choice in haste.
Nothing is served in silver platter Take
your time, pray for it.

You’ve come this far, But there’s more in

store.
You’ve reached this far,
Move on…conquer… soar high.

-jimmie
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 Questions for Reflection

1. What is the message of the poem?

2. Which line or lines in the poem do you like best? Why?

3. What does the poem want you to do with every milestone you achieve?

III. Main Activity

Activity 1: Packing Up for the Journey and Journeying Together
Directions:
1. Read APPENDIX 1: Informational Interview
2. Interview someone who has a similar job or business with your career choice.
3. Conduct an information interview using Activity Worksheet 4.1:
INFORMATIONAL INTERVIEW SHEET found in your workbook. Fill the
worksheet with their answers as you go.
4. Go over your individual findings gathered from the Informational Interview.
5. Identify the beliefs, attitude, and skills of the professionals/businessmen you
have interviewed.
6. Write their answers using the template below.

Here is an example.

Profession or Job of the Person Interviewed:

Beliefs Attitude Skills

Ex. Honest in reporting Ex. Careful in accomplishing Ex. Good in computing or

results assigned task. working with
numbers/data.

Processing Questions:

1. What beliefs, values, and skills have you observed that are helpful in becoming
a successful professional or entrepreneur? Why do you say so?
2. Were there common characteristics of the people you interviewed in terms of
their beliefs, attitude, and skills? What are those characteristics?

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 3. Are there characteristics exclusively possessed by a certain person you
interviewed?
What are those characteristics?
4. How did you feel while interviewing these people?
5. What characteristics do you have that you believe are similar to those you
interviewed? What do you plan to do about these characteristics?

IV. Lecturette

Info-Bits (15 minutes)

It has been said that first-hand information can be a very rich source of
information for learners. These are the information (the beliefs, attitude, and
skills) and success stories that we get from people who inspire us and make us
feel more enthusiastic about pursuing our goals. This is also called observational
learning.

Observational Learning happens when one learns by observing another

person perform a specific task. Observational Learning or the Social Learning
theory focuses on the social context of learning and proposes that we can learn
from another by observation, imitation, or by modeling. Albert Bandura (1977)
endeavored to understand the cognitive processes associated with people’s
interaction with one another. Social learning theorists say that learning can take
place simply by observing other actions and the subsequent outcomes of those
actions.

It is from this context that the Grade 12 learners are given assignment to
observe a person with whom they want to emulate in the future using the
informational interview form (attached in the appendix). By shadowing the
person or the “More Knowledgeable Other” or MKO (Vygotsky, 2014) in his place
of work and by asking pertinent questions based on the observation tool that was
crafted, it is believed that these new information will help them in cementing their
decisions to pursue their chosen career.

Informational observation also strengthens the claim of the creative job

hunting principle (Woodcock, 2014) where it says that the best way to choose a
career is to talk to people doing the job and to try it out via work shadowing and
experience. There is a lot of truth in the statement that you don’t really know
what it’s like until you have been doing it for a while: at least shadowing gives
you a good idea of what’s involved.

The idea of the observation is to promote a learning context where the

learners play an active role and become responsible for their own learning. The

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 role of the teacher therefore is to closely collaborate with learners to facilitate
meaningful learning experiences they acquired.

Choosing the right course is a big decision

and it is important to get it right, as it can impact
future success. Career awareness and self-
awareness go hand-in-hand. This is the other idea
behind why learners need to have enough
information profile about the career they want to
undertake through the informational observation.
In so doing, the learners could be taken away from
the idea that luck, unpredictable social factor,
chance, beliefs, and environmental factors play a
major role in one’s success in life as suggested by
the Happenstance Theory
(Krumboltz,
2008).
As Stephen Covey says from his famous book The 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People, “Begin with the end in mind.” We encourage our learners to
visualize what they wanted to become and they are already on their first step of
achieving their goals.

Relative to this, encourage them to craft their own career road map by
taking into consideration the information they gathered during their observation
and the learning they acquired through the different activities. While we
encourage creativity, do bear in mind that the content and direction of their career
road map plays a more important thing and the visual effect comes only
secondary. Instructions on crafting the career road map follow for a more specific
guide as to how the learners will craft their outputs.

V. Application : Crafting a Career Road Map

Answer Activity Worksheet No. 4.2: Career Road Map in your workbook.

Having processed the different data gathered in the field during the
informational interview, by now you must be aware that there are attributes of a
person (in the same profession as their chosen curriculum exit) that needs to be
learned in school and there are attributes that could be learned outside the four walls
of the classroom. At this point, craft your own career road map so that you will have
a prepared future plan as to how you want to arrive at your destinations – the
fulfilment of your career goals.

According to an article by Cao (2013) a career road map outlines specific

steps to undertake for moving from one step to another in ways that will facilitate

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 growth and career advancement. This could be an illustration or diagram that could
easily be understood by the individual who crafted it.

Career road maps are flexible enough and could be revisited and revised
over time or as the circumstance warrants in order for you to keep track of your
progress or to address issues that hinder the achievement of your desired goal.

The career road map, upon accomplishing should be communicated to your

parents/guardians or significant people whom you think in one way or the other will
be involved in the attainment of your desired goal. You should inform your
parents/guardians or the people whom you identified of what specific help or support
you are expecting from them. It is also very important to be reminded that you should
also communicate to your support group the specific steps you will take and the
projected time frame of its accomplishment. In so doing, you will have an active
support system that will help you out in achieving your career goals from time to
time.

VI. Reflection: Reflection Trail

Answer Activity Worksheet No. 4.2: Tracing the Trail in your workbook.

Refer to the trail of activities that you’ve been through in the module. Reflect by
accomplishing the following activity.

Directions: Write a 2-3 sentence reflection about your significant learnings in the
following activities.

VII. Evaluation
Answer Activity Worksheet No. 4.3: Fitting in Other’s Shoes in your workbook.
Directions:
1. Write your answer to the two items inside the shoe.
a. I want to be (career choice) who is (goal/s)
b. The possible challenges I foresee in achieving my career choice.

Here is a concluding activity that will somehow encapsulate the concepts needed to
be learned by you as a learner and as a valuable take away when you proceed to the next
modules.

Accomplish the task and have a gallery of your outputs either by hanging them as
mobiles or posting them on the walls of your room as collage for viewing.

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 The template is provided for this activity. Do not forget to process the different
outputs. The following reflection questions may help in processing and re-affirming your
decisions to keep on track in pursuing your career goals as you have mapped out in your
career road map.

1. What helped you decide about the visions you made for yourself 10 years from
now?
2. How do you intend to surpass the different obstacles that you foresee?

VIII. Additional Activities:

VMCV of My Future Company
Do you ever know of a company or a business enterprise that never seems
to accomplish very much because of lack of a mission statement, goals, or core
values? If so, do you want to work in these companies or at least put one for
yourself in the future? Definitely, you do not want to end up in a mess because of
lack of direction. A company or an enterprise needs vision because it provides the
destination of the business or the enterprise; a mission statement which is the
guiding light of the destination, and so on.

From this standpoint, make a survey of the existing companies or

enterprises in your locality and ask for their own vision, mission, goals, and core
values. You may use the template below to accomplish the task.

Mission

____________________________________________
Company or Enterprise’s Name

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Appendix 1: Informational Interview

What is an informational interview? Is there really a need to do it? What benefits can
you get from it? Read the following information.

An Informational Interview is an activity where you will make an

appointment with a person who has similar career or business that you desire when you
finish Senior High School. You will get information about the job or business including the
company where that person belongs. This is to have a better understanding about the job or
business you are interested to pursue. In the interview, you will be given the opportunity to
seek information from the person about the beliefs, attitude and skills needed related to his
job or business. It aims to make you become more informed about your career choice. You
will need the information you will get to compare and match it with your own interests,
knowledge, and skills. In this way, you can evaluate whether the job or business affirms to
your career choice.

To better understand the job or business, you will also include in the interview the
mission statement and core values of the company or business of the person you
interviewed.

In addition, this interview will also help you develop your communication skills and
confidence as well.

Preliminaries before conducting the informational interview:

1. Interview someone who has a similar job or business with your career choice.
To help you identify the person or business owner to interview, ask assistance
from your friends, neighbors, family, teachers, alumni, or your barangay
officials. List at least three persons as possible interviewees. The first one to be
available will be your final interviewee.
2. Contact your potential interviewee by letter, email, or phone. State your name
and that you are a Grade 12 learner. Tell him/her about your intention―why
you are contacting him/her and from whom you received his/her name. Specify
that you will just be asking for the opportunity to conduct an interview about
his/her job or business as a means of exploring on your dream job or business.
3. If he/she consents to be interviewed, ask for his/her most convenient time and
manner of interview (whether via phone or face-to-face). Request for 15-20
minutes for a phone interview, or 20-30 minutes for a face-to-face interview. If
possible, request for a face-to-face interview.
4. Respect the interviewee’s time by staying within the time frame agreed upon.

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 5. Assure the interviewee that the information you have gathered from him/her
will not be used in other purposes, except for the assignment given. Express
your words of gratitude after the interview.

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