MARIKINA SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL

Mayor Juan Chanyungco St. Sta. Elena, Marikina City

Name of Student: ____________________________________ Date: _________________

Grade and Section: ___________________________________ Quarter: 4th, Module No. 7

7 Beginning the Journey Where I am

LEARNING COMPETENCIES:

Discuss their present situation in relation to their status in life and profession
Enumerate the different areas to be considered in planning for life and profession
Evaluate the relevance of their current situation in planning for life and profession

LESSON IN FOCUS

Introduction

This module, “Beginning the Journey Where I Am” is about the process towards
strategic implementation leading to the realization of your chosen profession or more career
goal.

This part will help you learn more about your interests, values, and skills in relation to
your current situation which is vital to your profession in the future. This session will also
guide you in exploring occupations that are applicable to you and in learning to decide on the
best choice.

Materials
 ballpen
 activity sheets (SWOT analysis, My Ladder to Success)
 music video: The Journey by Lea Salonga

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I. Motivation
Stand and Name – Profession Rap
Directions
1. Following the teacher’s example, each learner will introduce his / her name and
future profession.
2. Those seated will affirm the profession stated, also through a rap.

Note: Do a sample rap introducing your own name and profession.

Examples:
Rico: I am Rico, I will be a surgeon! Yo! Yes, yes yo!
Group: Rico is a surgeon! Yo! Yes, yes yo!

Melody: I will be a Civil Engineer!

Group : Melody is a Civil Engineer!

Amore : I am Amore, I will be a Chef!

Group : Amore is a Chef!

Guide Questions
1. How did you feel when you were rapping your name and profession? Why?
2. What made you choose that profession?

II. Main Activity

This main activity is based on the motivational activity and a revisit of Session 6,
activity 6.1, where you identified your current situation in relation to your life and
profession.

In this activity, you will be introduced to SWOT analysis as an understanding of

your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and lead you to take action if
necessary, about their future career. The SWOT analysis will also help you and your
parents to narrow down a chosen career with understanding and acceptance based on the
family’s socio-economic situation.

Procedure

1. In the first column, indicate your present track, strand, and specialization.
2. Based on Session 6, Activity 6.1 list down the areas that you believe form part of
your SWOT analysis.
3. Write down other challenges and concerns that you encounter as specified in each
column of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. (See samples of
SWOT 1 and 2 below.)

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Sample Worksheet 1: Academic

Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats

Track: Academic
Strand: ABM Have good Not so good  Scholarship in  Financial
Specialization: mathematical with English college issues
skills. communication  Job  Proximity or
skills. opportunities Distance
in the locality Residence of
college or
university

Sample Worksheet 2: TVL

Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats

Track: TVL
Strand: Home  Artistic  easily discouraged  local employment  local small
Economics  Practical  less information  international business
Specialization:  Analytical of the latest food employment competitors
Food and thinker and beverages  entrepreneurship  upgrading of
Beverages  Patient production issues skills in food
Production  Honest  communication and
 People skills (verbal and beverages
person written) production
 stagnation of
business

Worksheet 7.1
SWOT Analysis

Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats

Name:

Track:

Strand:

Specialization:

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 Guide Questions

1. How do you feel about your strengths? How about your weaknesses?
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2. Are your weaknesses manageable in terms of pursuing your career goal?

How will you manage these?
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3. How will you cope with the threats in pursuing your career goal?
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4. Based on the areas that you considered in your career planning, what are the most
priority in order to attain your goal?
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Synthesis
“The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak,
and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.”

― Chistian D. Larson

Patience and perseverance are burning desires that need to be fueled constantly in the
process of reaching one’s goal. The quest for the realization of your dreams is like waging a
momentous battle during which you might encounter severe setbacks; but success comes to
those who turn adversities into opportunities, overcome their limitations, and bounce back with
renewed vigor.

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III. Lecturette

Career Development is a lifelong process that includes physical, cognitive,

and emotional development (Seligman, 1980). There are lots of factors that influence
lifelong career development process. These are generally classified as psychological
and social factors that are developed by affecting each other mutually. The most important
feature that affects vocational development are the skills that an individual has. However,
development of these skills can only be possible with environment support. If one were
permitted only a single variable predict an individual’s occupational status, it surely
would be the socio- economic status of that individual’s family of orientation.
(revisit Module 1.1) As a measurement construct, socioeconomic status usually
incorporates one or more of the following: parents’ educational attainment and
occupational status, and family income (discussed in Module 2 lecturrette). All of
these factors, as well as such corresponding variables as values, opportunities, and
parental encouragement, serve to enhance or limit an individual’s potential occupational
status. (Schoenberg et al. 1984).

Each person has different difficulties and boundaries that may hinder him/her from
pursuing a career goal. The Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Treats (SWOT)
activity enables the learners to realize and prioritize their own interests that they owe to
value in planning for life because this will lead them to whatever career goal they want to
achieve.

The SWOT framework is credited to Albert Humphrey, who tested the approach
in the 1960s and 1970s at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). SWOT analysis is a
process that identifies the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the students’
chosen career field. As its name states, a SWOT analysis examines four elements:

1. Strengths – internal attributes and resources that support successful outcome

of the chosen track and strand.
2. Weaknesses – internal attributes and resources that work against a successful
outcome of the chosen track and strand.
3. Opportunities – external factors of the career goal that can be capitalized on or
used to its advantage.
4. Threats – external factors that could jeopardize the career goal.

SWOT is usually used in the industrial / business industry which is very effective
in their business analysis that would lead a business success. In this case, SWOT is used
to analyze career development pathing to help the learner lead their one’s career
goal/journey. Having career goals helps provide direction and focuses your attention on
attainable outcomes of the educational process.

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 Knowing where you are going with your academic program in terms of clear goals
helps stimulate and maintain motivation. Motivation has been shown to be a critical
component of academic success. Therefore, clarifying your career goals can result in
immediate as well as long-term gain (Groccia, 1992).

Individuals vary in their progress in terms of clarifying goals because of many reasons.
Some advance rapidly through each phase, while others progress more slowly. Individuals
may repeat all or parts of the career development process at various points throughout their
lives as values, interests, abilities, and life circumstances change.

The concept of self-efficacy is the focal point of Albert Bandura’s social

cognitive theory (1997). By means of the self-system, individuals exercise control over their
thoughts, feelings, and actions. Among the beliefs with which an individual evaluates the
control over his/her actions and environment, self-efficacy beliefs are the most influential
predictor of human behavior as this relates to the career exposure where the individual is
influenced.

According to Bandura (1997), the level and strength of self-efficacy will

determine whether coping behavior will be initiated; how much effort will result, and
how long the effort will be sustained in the face of obstacles.

Self-efficacy means the belief in one’s capabilities to organize and execute the courses
of action required to produce given attainments. This is constructed on the basis of the
following:

 Personal Performance―Accomplishments, previous successes or failures (most

influential)
 Vicarious Experience ―Watching others, modeling, mentoring
 Verbal Persuasion―Verbal encouragement or discouragement
 Physiological and Emotional Factors―Perceptions of stress reactions in the body

It is important to understand the distinction between Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy in

career planning. According to Bandura (1992):

 Self-esteem relates to a person’s sense of self-worth.

 Self-efficacy relates to a person’s perception of his/her ability to reach a goal.

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 Self-Efficacy Affects Human Function in Relation to Career Planning

Choices regarding Behavior

The individuals will be more inclined to take on a task if they believe they can succeed. They
generally avoid tasks where their self-efficacy is low, but engage when it is high. Self-efficacy
that is significantly higher than ability can lead to psychological damage. Significantly low self-
efficacy leads to an inability to grow and expand skills. Optimum levels of self-efficacy are a little
above ability, which encourages people to tackle challenging tasks and gain valuable experience.

Motivation
The individual with higher self-efficacy in a task are likely to expend more effort and persist
longer than with low efficacy. On the other hand, low self- efficacy may provide an incentive to
learn more and prepare better than a person with higher self- efficacy.

Thought Patterns and Responses

Low self-efficacy can lead the individual to believe tasks are harder than they actually are. This
leads to poor planning and stress. A person with higher self-efficacy will attribute a failure to
external factors, whereas a person with lower self- efficacy will attribute it to low ability.
(Example: Math Test)

The Destiny Idea

Bandura successfully showed that individuals with differing self-efficacy perceive the world in
fundamentally different ways. Persons with high self-efficacy are generally of the opinion that
they are in control of their own lives: that their own actions and decisions shape their lives. On
the other hand, persons with low self-efficacy may see their lives as somewhat out of their hands
and is dependent on fate.

Guide Questions
1. What are your insights about the strand/track you are enrolled in?
2. What are your realizations?
3. Do you think these will help you as you progress in your career journey? In what
way?

Synthesis
As we journey towards our career, we see the road is long and rough. There are times when we
do not find enough strength to sustain us. But through it all we strive to get up and move on.
We rediscover over strengths and build on our weaknesses to become stronger in pursuit of
reaching our goal.

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IV. Application
This activity is a revisit of Session 6, activity 2. In this activity, you will structure “Ladder
of Success” in relation to your Senior High School career choice.

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Sample worksheet for Academic — STEM

My Ladder to Success!
After four (4 to 5)
years:

A year after: I will be a degree

holder in CIVIL
I am a full fledged ENGINEERING
(Grade 12) CIVIL ENGINEER (Pursued College)
(Name the profession)
( ) My goal is to earn
At present (Grade 11) School Year 2023-24
NC II in the field of I will be employed at
I am in Academic Track MEGA World Need:
STEM Strand - to take the board
Specialization Valued: exam for
Need Engineering
- Employability skills - Financial support
Skills I Learned - time management - Family support
Valued: - Working with others
- Family Valued:
- Logarithmic skills - Financial - Work
- Calculus skills ( ) Entrepreneurship/ opportunity
- Self-confidence Negosyo I owned a business - Family
- Study habits - Health
Time
Need: Need: I am employed as
Skills I still need to
learn:
Valued: Valued: Need:
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication
skills State other options: Valued:
(/) Pursue College
Course in Engineering

Need: Financial and I owned a business

family support
Need:
Valued: Further
education and health
Valued:

State other options:

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Sample Worksheet for TVL

My Ladder to Success!
A year after:

I am a full fledged
After four (4) years:
(Name the
I will be a degree profession)
(Grade 12) holder on

(Pursued College)
( / ) My goal is to earn School Year _
At present (Grade 11) Need:
NC II in the field of
I am employed as
I am in TVL Track Food and Beverages
Senior Waiter in a
Home Economics Strand Servicing Valued: CRUISE SHIP in
Australia
Specialization Need:
Food and Beverages - immersion to a hotel
I am employed as Need: Promotion
Servicing or cruise ship Senior Waiter in a and compensation
- financial support
CRUISE SHIP in
Skills I Learned - family support
Australia Valued: Work and
opportunity touring
Valued: Need:
Australia
- Sanitation - Work performance - Savings for my
- Sensitivity to other - Quality time at work family
people and family - Financial support
I owned a business
- time mangement - Good service to for my parents
customers - and siblings
Skills I still need to Need:
Valued:
learn: ( ) Entrepreneurship/
- work ethics
- Good Negosyo
- patience
communication skills Valued:
- time management
- Self-confidence Need:
- service to others
- Being patient and
understanding I owned a business
Valued: State other options:

Need:
( ) Pursue College
Course

Valued:
Need:

Valued: State other options:

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 Worksheet 7.2

Directions: Fill out the work sheet.

My Ladder to Success!

A year after:

After four (4) years: I am a full fledged

(Grade 12)
I will be a degree (Name the
holder on profession)

( ) My goal is to earn (Pursued College)

At present (Grade 11) NC II in the field of School Year

I am in Track Need:
Strand I am employed as
Specialization Need:

Valued:
Value: Need:
Skills I Learned

I am employed as Valued:
( ) Entrepreneurship/
Negosyo
Need:

Need: I owned a business

Valued:
Skills I still need to Need:
learn: Valued:

I owned a business
( ) Pursue College Valued:

Course Need:

State other options:

Need:
Valued:

Valued:
State other options:

"It’s not what you achieve, it what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.”
– Carlton Fisk

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V. Reflection
Note: The lyrics of the song “The Journey” will be used as alternative to the video if this is
not available or in the absence of an Internet connection.

Half the world is sleeping

Half the world’s awake
Half can hear their heart beat
Half just hear them break
I am but a traveler
Been most everywhere
Ask me what you want to know.

[Chorus]

What a journey it has been

And the end is not in sight
But the stars are out tonight
And they're bound to guide my way
When they're shining on my life
I can see a better day
I won't let the darkness in
What a journey it has been.

I have been to sorrow

I have been to bliss
Where I'll be tomorrow
I can only guess
Through the darkest desert
Through the deepest snow
Forward, always forward I go.
Forward, always forward
Onward, always up
Catching every drop of hope
In my empty cup.

Life is what we make it. We can make it beautiful and meaningful depending on the virtues
we practice.

There are big and small tasks that we perform in our everyday lives. There are times when
we are up, and times that we are down. But we come to realize that our failures become our
leaning, and as we get up, we turn up stronger, more responsible, and more accepting of the
consequences of the decisions we make.

Deciding on a career is a lifetime choice. We do not need to this alone. We need each other
to help us become who we want to be and to live the life we plan it to be.

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 VI. Evaluation

Writing Prompts

Directions: Complete the following phrases. Recall the previous activities you did to
answer.

1. I want to become .
2. I need to learn my skills in .
3. I want to work at .
4. I have the qualities for .
5. I am .
(State your characteristics or attitude)
6. I value at work, because .
(State your ideals)
7. I like working at .
8. I like working with people who are .
9. I do not like to work at because .
10. I do not like to work with people who .

“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something
inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”
– Christian D. Larson

References

Dave Ellis, From Master Student to Master Employee (Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2011), 94-96.
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2016, http://www.manitobacareerdevelopment.ca/cdi/docs/plan_your_career.pdf
Career Planning Model by Department of Training and Workforce Development, Career Centre, accessed
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4StepPlanningProcess.aspx
Albert Humphrey, 1960s and 1970s at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), accessed December 6, 2016 ,
http://articles.bplans.com/how-to-perform-swot-analysis/
Norman Amundson & Gray Poehnell, 2011 Hope-Filled Engagement, Accessed December 6, 2016,
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Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. New York: W.H. Freeman.
http://www.instructionaldesign.org/theories/social-learning.html
Carlton Fisk, http://brainyquote.com/quotes/cartonfis2657.html
Christian Larson, http://www.azquotes.com/18906-Christian_D_Larson
The Journey of Lea Salonga, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqVwhrWBzEM
Music, http://www.heather animations.com/music5.html
Music, http://www.google.com.ph/g-giftmotion-g.

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Teacher’s Name & Signature: Ms. Katherine Amansic Casitas

Date: ______________________
Remarks:

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