K to 12 BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM

Technology and Livelihood Education 9

Learning Module 1
UNIT 1
PERSONAL ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETENCIES AND ENVIRONMENT AND MARKET
TOPIC 1: Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies

Content Standard: The learners demonstrate an understanding of the dimensions and characteristics of
PECs.
Performance Standard: The learners independently recommend specific strategies to improve weak
areas and sustain strong areas in their PECs.
Transfer Goal: Learners on their own and in the long run will be able to endorse strategies to improve
one’s weak areas and sustain strong areas in their dimension of PECs when putting up own business.

INTRODUCTION AND FOCUS QUESTION(S):

What are PECs and the three clusters? How is the different characteristics of each clusters
contribute to become a successful food entrepreneur?
Putting up a food business venture is challenging but enjoyable and rewarding, too. However,
before embarking on the food business, one should be equipped with the essential traits and
competencies of a successful food entrepreneur so that all the challenges along the way can be overcome
easily.
This lesson is about developing one’s PECs in business, such as cookery. Students are guided to
assess their potentials to determine whether or not they can succeed in the food industry. This way, one
can be prepared to contribute to the welfare and progress of his family, community, and the whole
country.

To begin with, let us first try to find out the competencies you will master as you finish this
module.

In this module you could be able to…

 Explain dimensions/clusters of PECs and the different characteristic traits per cluster
 Evaluate your PECs

Lesson Coverage:

Topic 1  Dimensions of Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies (PECs)

Personal Entrepreneurial  Assessment of PECs
Competencies

MODULE MAP

PECs Clusters of
a Food
Entrepreneur

Achievement Planning Power Clusters

Clusters Clusters

Evaluation of
PECs

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 EXPECTED SKILLS
1. Explain dimensions/clusters of PECs and the different characteristic traits per cluster.
2. Evaluate one’s PECs.

Now that you have an idea about the knowledge and skill that you will develop and master, take
the first challenge in this module- the pre-assessment.

PRE-ASSESSMENT
Let us determine how much you already know about personal entrepreneurial
competencies by taking this test.

Direction: Write Y on the blanks before the correct traits of a successful entrepreneur in commercial
cooking and X for desirable ones.

___________1. Lazy ___________6. Risk Taker

___________2. Impatient ___________7. Organized
___________3. Persistent ___________8. Committed
___________4. Hardworking ___________9. Innovative
___________5. Ningas cogon Mentality ___________10. Pessimistic

EXPLORE

To be able to answer the essential question in this lesson, let’s start first this module by gathering
your thoughts about the importance of having entrepreneurial skills. Do the activity below.

ACTIVITY #1: Identify Three Skills and Explain

Direction: On the first column, your task is to identify three skills of a good entrepreneur and explain the
importance of having that skill for a successful business outcome.

Skills of a Good Entrepreneur Importance of having this entrepreneurial

skill…
1.
2.
3.

Let us check if what you have enumerated were skills that an entrepreneurs should have.
Let’s discuss one by one the traits under each clusters of PECs for us to be able to understand well
why these competencies were important for entrepreneurs.
Listen well because at the end of the discussion you will be given the chance to express
your learnings from. Comprehend for you to get ready for the next activity below.

FIRM-UP

In this section your goal is to explain the different characteristic traits per cluster of PECs.
Participate as we will push through the next activity.

ACTIVITY #2: Peer Discussion (Find Your 6 O’clock Buddy)

Description: Talk with your buddy and have an agreement who’s Student A and B. Both of you have 15
minutes for this peer discussion (5 minutes for each clusters: 2 min. and 30 sec. is the time allotted for
each of you) to explain the character traits per cluster.

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 Use the process question below as your basis in explaining clusters with your partner.

1. When do we say that an entrepreneur possesses the characteristic traits of the following
clusters?
a. Achievement
b. Planning
c. Power

2. How important are the characteristic traits per cluster to become a successful entrepreneur?
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DEEPEN

Now that you already known the important ideas about this topic, let’s have a self-evaluation
about your potentials just in case you dreamt of becoming a future food entrepreneur by doing
honestly the self-assessment test below.

ACTIVITY #3: Personal Entrepreneurial Evaluation Test

Description: Each “a” answer is equivalent to 10 points

Each “b” answer is equivalent to 5 points

Ranking: 85-100 points- You have strong entrepreneurial characteristics.

71-84 points- You have weaknesses that need improvement.
50-70 points- The commitment of an entrepreneur are hard for you at this time.

Questions:
1. Are you innovative?
____a. I am open-minded to new methods of improving food I will offer.
____b. I will not try new methods of preparing my food offerings.
2. Are you creative?
____a. I will exert effort to develop my imagination in food preparation.
____b. I will not exert much effort to develop my imagination in food preparation.
3. Are you concerned about the preservation of the environment?
____a. I am willing to do my share in the preservation of the environment.
____b. I will not do my share in the preservation of the environment.
4. Are you efficient?
____a. I will closely supervise the preparation of food to be served.
____b. I will just let other employees do the job.
5. Do you possess good human relations?
____a. I enjoy the company of people and am a team player.
____b. I do not enjoy the company of the people.
6. Are you hardworking?
____a. I believe that success comes from hard work by putting time and effort for the business.
____b. I tend to avoid too much work.
7. Are you healthy?
____a. I exercise regularly and eat healthful foods.
____b. I do not eat a balanced diet and I do not exercise regularly.
8. Are you organized?
____a. I make plans before doing things.
____b. I do not make plans ahead of time.
9. Are you optimistic/cheerful?
____a. I have a positive attitude towards work
____b. I am pessimistic by nature.
10. Are you quality conscious?
____a. I always aim for excellence in my undertakings
____b. I get tired of looking for ways of improving the quality of whatever I do.
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ACTIVITY #4: Guided Generalization

Essential Question Situation 1 Situation 2

Title: What If…? Title: What’s Wrong?

Liza’s restaurant is famous Adan is a service crew in a food

because of this one and only court which has twenty-one
savory dish which is a best seller. number of employees. When the
However, their income from the result of peer-evaluation came
restau was still not enough to out, he found out that many of his
cover all the expenses like water, co-workers have negative
electric bill, and rent bill. Her impressions about him. He wants
What are the specific strategies husband suggested to create and to know what was wrong with
would you recommend to sell two more kinds of savory him?
improve one’s weak areas and dishes but she refused to because
to sustain strong areas in one’s of many “what if’s” like: what if What do you think is the
PECs. customers will not like it? entrepreneurial skill which is
missing to him?
What is the identified
entrepreneurial weakness of What is that specific strategy
Liza? would you recommend to Adan
for him to get a warmth
What is that specific strategy acceptance from his fellow
would you recommend her to workers?
completely stop that weakness
from Liza’s inside?

TRANSFER

Memorizing the PECs characteristic traits is not enough for learning the real-world
business happenings. Therefore, explaining each characteristic is not the end of this module. You
have to do the task below to accomplish your learning standards.

ACTIVITY #5: Performance Task

GOAL To recommend specific strategies to sustain strong areas and to improve

one’s weak areas.
ROLE You are an entrepreneurial resource speaker.
AUDIENCE Students who aspire to become entrepreneurs.
SITUATION You are a resource speaker invited by a teacher to share the aspiring young
entrepreneurs some specific strategies on how to improve the identified
weak areas of them as well as how will they sustain strong areas in their
PECs. In short, you are invited to give some entrepreneurial advices.
PRODUCT A list of personal entrepreneurial problem situations with recommended
strategies how to handle such. (Use this format)

Personal Entrepreneurial Recommended Strategy

Problems
1. Ex. Lack of Self- Participate in skills competition
Confidence
2.
3.
4.
5.
STANDARDS Performance Assessment Rubric below.

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Rubrics for Grading

CRITERIA 3 2 1
The list of personal The list of personal The list of personal
entrepreneurial entrepreneurial entrepreneurial
Organization of the problems with its problems with its problems with its
Details recommended strategy recommended strategy recommended strategy
was very informative. was satisfactory done was poorly done.
but inadequate.
The speaker showed The speaker showed The speaker’s details
that he/she is that he/she is was somewhat
A Good Endorser of completely equipped inadequate with confusing.
Entrepreneurial with different strategy different strategy to
Strategies to overcome overcome
entrepreneurial entrepreneurial
problems. problems.
The speaker was The speaker lacked The speaker was not
Preparedness of impressively presented some readiness in the ready yet for his/her
Presentation the problems and presentation. presentation.
recommendations in
great details.

Reflection:

At the end of the discussions and activities, what are the PECs that will contribute on your success
in the field of business? Why do you say so?
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***End of Learning Module 1 PECs***

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