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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:

LEVEL 5 C R E R E A D A N V C E A N E M T

LEVEL 4 F E I L L N O G L E N I N A G R

LEVEL 3 G P A N A L S I S A Y

LEVEL 2 G H I N C O C A

LEVEL 1 G L O A

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?

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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.
Career Destination Plot

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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

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never stop once you became employed, you need to 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.

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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 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

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

A. Career Aspects
1. Career To possess Zero I need to
Knowledge/Inform relevant knowledg acquire
ation knowledge in e in information
school school about
management manage school
ment manageme
nt
2. Career To be a good I am I need to
Skills/Experience leader serving have more
as Class leadership
Vice- experiences
President
B Social To establish I have I need to
. Values/Networkin connections savings link with
g Aspect (Refer to with agencies but I agencies/
Module 6 or know it people that
Worksheet) organizations wouldn’t can provide
be scholarship

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enough or financial
for my help for my
schooling studies
C Personal Values To be more I usually I need to
. Aspect (Refer to organize and cram learn how to
Module 6 and 7 improve my before use time
Worksheets) time exams management
management tools and
and
skill strategies to
submissi organize my
ons and stuff
my room
is in total
mess

2. Set objectives based on your gap analysis

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 To be appointed as
qualifications for Principal I Secondary School Principal I
by finishing my BS and 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

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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

Objectiv Lifelong Resources Time Mode of
es Learning Fram Verification
Strategi Perso Materia
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ns ls/
es Accomplishm
Financi
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Principal education rs,
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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.
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

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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.

“Together with others, everyone has a mission to fulfill somewhere,

somehow in this wide world.”

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My Career Philosophy
As a/an ____________________________________, I know this
profession is _______________________.

I have set out on a path in

________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

I believe that to succeed in _________________ you must

have/possess
_____________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________.

I believe in the saying that,

“_______________________________________

My Career Philosophy
As a 21st century teacher. I know this profession is
challenging.

I have set out on a path in teaching field knowing I can

make a difference in individuals’ lives.

I believe that to succeed in teaching you must have passion,

positive attitude, strong work ethics and hard work.

I believe in the saying that, “To be successful, the first

thing to do is to fall in love with your work,” that is why I will
never stop falling in love in teaching.

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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:

Sulat Para sa Aking Sarili sa Hinaharap

Mahal kong Gio,
Gusto kita kasi ikaw ay masikap sa iyong pag-aaral.
Hinahangaan ka ng iyong mga kamag-aral at guro, dahil sa
iyong husay sa pakikipagtalastasan. Gayunman, kung may
isang bagay na dapat mo pang paunlarin, ito ay ang iyong
pag-sasaayos ng mga gawain at time management. Sana,
ngayon ay isa ka ng Master Teacher sa isang
pampublikong paaralan, na gumagabay sa mga mag-aaral
ng ika-21 siglo gamit ang mga makabago at epektibong
pamamaraan ng pagtuturo. Alam ko na mahal mo ang
propesyong
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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>.

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 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/>.
 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-value-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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