Republic of the Philippines Department of Education Region IV-A CALABARZON DIVISION OF BATANGAS San Pascual Senior High School 2 Malaking Pook, San Pascual, Batangas
IMPLEMENTATION OF CAREER GUIDANCE IN GRADE 11 Career guidance planning is a tool to help senior high school students in preparing them for a career they would want to pursue after senior high school. It will also be useful and significant as senior high school students step the road to their future. With that, all advisers of Grade 11 were required to discuss the career guidance planning to all Grade 11 students as part of their curriculum. The teachers were given a manual composed of eight (8) modules all taken up together to form a handbook. Module 1- Road to the Right Choice Module 2- The Star Power Within Module 3- Reaffirming the Chosen Track Module 4- Fit Me Right Module 5- Rising Toward the Reality of my Dreams Module 6- Up, Up in the Ladder of my Career Module 7- Beginning the Journey Where I’ am Module 8- I Plan to Succeed The modules build up one after the other such that at the initial module, students are presented with different career choices, slowly developing and intensifying in the next modules that tackle the different factors affecting the fulfillment of a dream/ goal, how to deal with this factors, the preparations for equipping oneself with the skills required of a profession, including honing one’s personal attributes and
characteristics that are equally essential as the technical capabilities when applying for work. As such, by the last module, the students would have been very confident about the career he/ she intends to take. In order to sharpen these skills, various activities have been employed and utilized that will inspire as well as motivate students to persevere in their life goals. Students are likewise required to have a notebook where they will write their reflections and assignment for the entire program. Students will also write their thoughts and feelings after each module. There are also activity sheets that students will accomplish individually or as a group and at times, with the participation of parents or guardians. At the end of the Career Guidance Planning lecture, the students must compile all their outputs in their students’ career portfolio as an evidence for this program.
