The MCDP Toolkit:

Preparing the Youth for a

Productive, Resilient, and
Career-Ready Future

Yolanda C. De Las Alas

Senior Specialist
SEAMEO INNOTECH

11 August 2022
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OUTLINE
Part 1: Preparing Filipino Youth for a Career- Ready
Future: A Journey of the Multiple Career Development
Pathways (MCDP) Toolkit

• Rationale and Overview

• Research and Development Process

• Toolkit Key Features and Components

• Sample Activity Guides and Tools

Part 2: Taking the MCDP Toolkit to Greater Heights

• Explainer Video on the Use of the MCDP Toolkit

• Explainer Video on Senior High School (SHS) Tracks

and Strands

• Adaptation of the MCDP Toolkit in Lao Ministry of

Education and Sports (MOES)
Part 1
Preparing Filipino Youth for
a Career-Ready Future:
A Journey of the Multiple
Career Development
Pathways (MCDP) Toolkit
RATIONALE THE MCDP TOOLKIT
OVERVIEW THE MCDP TOOLKIT
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Results of FGDs
(2016 TO 2017) 03 which guided R&D

Partnered with DepEd’s CGP Team formerly • Career guidance task is an

01 under the Youth Formation Division additional load.
• Teachers should be equipped
before undertaking this
Consultation with Technical experts, e.g., crucial task and should find
02 UST, DLSU, and PGCA
time to conduct the sessions.
• Teachers need a simple and
Focus Group Discussions with San Pedro easy to use resource material
03 Relocation Center National High School: on career guidance.
Teachers, Learners, Parents, School Head • Schools should provide
required materials for CGP
sessions and activities.
04 Drafting of tools, materials, session guides • In PHL setting, family is one of
the major deciding factors in
choosing a career.
05 Experts and TWG’s Review of the Toolkit • Using a career portfolio will
help students in making good
career decisions.
01
06 Pilot-Test and Finalization
PILOT-TEST KEY FINDINGS
Clarity of Instructions
• Pilot schools: San Pedro Relocation Center
National High School and Raja Soliman Appropriateness to
Science and Technology HS Career Planning

• Survey of 27 teachers and 993 learners

Ease of use and reproduction
• FGD with 26 teachers, 13 learners, 11
parents, 2 School Heads
Organization/ Structure
• Key finding: MCDP Toolkit is a valuable tool
for career decision making for Grade 10
students Usefulness in choosing
SHS track and strand
• Majority of teachers and students strongly
agreed/agreed on the effectiveness of the Recommendation:
MCDP Toolkit MCDP Toolkit can be used as a
supplemental resource material for
Grade 10 career guidance program
5 KEY FEATURES OF THE MCDP TOOLKIT

Simple and concise career

planning material

Can be used out of sequence/ “on-

demand”

Highlights that career planning is

an iterative process

Tools/materials are easy to

reproduce

Empowers teachers as career

advocates
 4 MCDP TOOLKIT COMPONENTS

Guide for Career Activity

Advocates Guides

Sample Session Activities

Guides and Tools
COMPONENT 1:
GUIDE FOR
CAREER
ADVOCATES
COMPONENT 2:
ACTIVITIES
AND TOOLS
COMPARATIVE CGP ACTIVITIES BY
PILOT SCHOOL (SPRCNHS)
Grade 10 CGP Manual Integration of MCDP Toolkit and DepEd
MCDP Toolkit
(DepEd Order 41, s. 2015) CGP
Module 1: Embarking on a Introduction: Starting a Career Planning Session 1: Self-Portrait Bag
Journey of Self-Awareness Journey
Session 2: Peer Sharing
Activity: Discovery of learners’ Tool 1: The Life I want to live as an Adult
values, skills, and interests
Activity 1: Enhancing Self-Awareness
Materials: Self-Portrait Bags,
Tool 2: Self-Assessment of Interests and
Dream Collage, Journal Entry #1
Talents
Tool 3: Personal Work Values and
Competencies
Tool 4: Rate your Skills
Module 2: Examining the Activity 2: Exploring Career Pathways Session 3: Discussion of TVL and
Destinations Academic Tracks and Strands
Tool 5: SHS Career Interest Clusters and
Session 1: Examining the Career Wheel Session 4: Discussion of Arts and Design
Destinations and Sports Tracks
Activities: Mystery Box, Session 5: Color your Interest and Career
Introduction to SHS, Academic and Wheel
TVL Track Lecture
Materials: Student Worksheet on
Color your Interests, Journal # 2
COMPARATIVE CGP ACTIVITIES BY
PILOT SCHOOL (SPRCNHS)
Grade 10 CGP Manual Integration of MCDP Toolkit and DepEd
MCDP Toolkit
(DepEd Order 41, s. 2015) CGP
Session 2: Examining the Activity 3: Goal Setting and Grounding Session 6: My Family and My Career
Destinations Choices
Tool 6: My Family and My Career Choices
Activities: K to 12 Ready Ka Na Ba?,
Tool7: Personal Career Exploration Mapping
Arts and Design Track, Sports Track,
Tool
Group Charades
Tool 8: Career Sector exploration Sheet
Materials: Worksheet on My First
resume, Journal Entry # 3 Tool 9: Career Pathways Action Plan
Module 3: Charting you Own Activity 4: Connecting the Dots Between Session 7: Filling out of Sample Early
Course Education and Career Pathways Registration Form
Activities We can be anything, Tool 10: Career Pathways Portfolio
Plan A “Vacation”, Plan A
Tool 11: Career Study Planner Session 8: Developing a Career
“Vocation”
Pathways Portfolio and Career Study
Tool 12: Summary of my Career Pathways
Materials: Leaners’ Career Guidance Planner
Advocacy Program (CGAP) Journal Tool 13: Multiple Career Development
Pathways Map
SAMPLE ACTIVITIES AND TOOLS

CLUSTER C
CAREER
CLUSTERS
THE CAREER WHEEL
Inner Circle: SHS Subjects
2nd Circle: SHS Tracks
3rd Circle: SHS Strand by track
4th Circle: Potential Careers
after SHS by strand
5th Circle: Potential Business
Opportunities by strand
Outer Circle: Potential Careers
after College by strand
SAMPLE ACTIVITIES AND TOOLS
SAMPLE ACTIVITIES AND TOOLS
COMPONENT 3:
ACTIVITY GUIDES
COMPONENT 4:
SAMPLE SESSION
GUIDES
Part 2
Taking the MCDP Toolkit
to Greater Heights
MCDP EXPLAINER VIDEO SERIES

01
EXPLAINER
VIDEO ON
SHS TRACKS
AND STRANDS
DepEd
Memo
MCDP ADAPTATION
IN LAO MINISTRY OF
EDUCATION AND
SPORTS (MOES)
 01 Needs Assessment and Local Partnership
(December 2020 to March 2021)

02 Translation of the MCDP Toolkit (March 2021)

MCDP
ADAPTATION 03 Adaptation Workshops in Lao (February to March 2022)

IN LAO MOES
AMIDST THE 04 Lao MOES Approval of Pilot version (April 2022)
PANDEMIC
05 Sharing of MCDP Resources using Creative Commons

01 06 Training of Trainers (June 2022)

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