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Homeroom Guidance
Quarter 4 – Module 18:
My Career Is What I Value
Homeroom Guidance Self-learning Module – Grade 9
Quarter 4 Module 18: My Career Is What I Value
2021 Edition

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Department of Education. Homeroom Guidance Self-learning Module 14:

The Responsible Me. Manila: Department of Education Central Office, 2021.

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 Homeroom Guidance Grade 9
Quarter 3 – Module 14:
My Career Is What I Value

Gabay sa Magulang/Tagapag-alaga
Ang modyul na ito ay inihanda upang maibahagi at maipamulat sa inyong mag-
aaral ang kahalagahan ng pagplano para sa maayos at matagumpay na buhay. Dito
rin mabigyan ng konkritong gabay kung papaano tatahakin ang tamang pagpili kung
anong Curriculum Exit ang pwedeng tatahakin na naayon sa kanyang personal na
kakayahan at interest sa buhay.. Ito ay dinesenyo para sa “distance learning” o
alternatibong pamamaraan ng pagkatuto na hindi nangangailangan ng pisikal na
presensya sa paaralan, bilang tugon sa direktiba na pagkansela ng “face-to-face class”
dulot ng pandemyang COVID-19.

Maaaring may mga pagkakataon na hihingiin ng inyong mag-aaral ang inyong

patnubay sa pagsunod sa mga tagubilin at pagsagot sa mga tanong sa bawat bahagi
ng mga gawain at maging sa pagkakaroon ng mga kakailanganing materyales base
sa nakatakdang gawain. Hinihiling ng Kagawaran ang inyong suporta upang
matagumpay niyang maisakatuparan ang mga gawaing ito. Ang araling ito ay
makakatulong upang hubugin ang kanyang kabutihan na tanggapin ang pagkakaiba -
iba ng bawat tao sa katangian, kakayahan, damdamin at pananaw. Tiyakin na
sasagutin niya ang bawat bahagi ng modyul nang tapat hangga't maaari, kapag siya
ay sumasagot sa mga gawain at pagtatasa.
Kinakailangan din ang long folder na magsisilbing Portfolio ng mag-aaral sa
Homeroom Guidance. Dito isisilid lahat ng gawaing natapos sa bawat bahagi ng
modyul. Tiyaking ito ay magagawa nang tapat at maipapasa sa petsa at oras na
itinakda ng kanyang Gurong-Tagapayo.

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Introductory Message

For the learner:

As part of your career journey, it is important that you examine your beliefs and
behaviors. Doing it will help you in understanding yourself which is essential in choosing your
Senior High School Track and Strand. It is also helpful to be informed about traditional and
non-traditional jobs for you to know the job opportunities that await you.

This module is composed of different activities that will enable you to reflect and
understand the factors in career planning which were mentioned above. Thus, work on these
tasks seriously and wholeheartedly. Seek help if you believe you need to. Remember, your
future depends on your career decisions and plans.

This self-learning module consists of six interactive tasks, which are as follows:

Let’s Try This –which will help you to get ready to learn;

Let’s Explore This – which will guide you towards what you need to learn;

Keep in Mind – which will give you the lessons that you need to learn and
understand;

You Can Do It – which will help you apply the lessons learned in daily activities;

What I Have learned – which will test and evaluate your learning;

Share Your Thoughts and Feelings – which will help you express your thoughts,
opinions and feelings.

Make sure to read, think, follow, and enjoy every task that you are ask to do.Have fun!
Stay safe and healthy!

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MY CAREER IS WHAT I VALUE

Learning Objectives
After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. analyze one’s beliefs and behaviors that are helpful in deciding for Track and Strand;
2. predict possible traditional and non-traditional jobs based on data and current trends; and
3. define the steps toward successful career planning and preparation.

Period: Week 6

Suggested Total Time Allotment: 60 Minutes

Materials Needed:

 Pen or pencil
 Bond paper or any clean sheet of paper

Introduction

This module was designed to help you outline a plan for your desired career in the
future. Even though we are in this pandemic, we still need to do something in preparation for
our near future. Making a career design and adhering to it will enable you to find life success.
Knowing yourself better in terms of what you know and what you can possibly do will also be of
great help to you. You will also be presented with a success life story that can influence you in
the pursuit of your own career.

Subsequently, this is an avenue to provide some relevant information to help you in

making one of your most important decisions in life – your career. This relevant recognition of
your beliefs and behaviors will have a positive impact in your career decision-making. Moreover,
beliefs, although not necessarily scientific, are cherished thoughts and feelings that were
handed to us from our parents and ancestors.

So bring out your materials and imagination and prepare your career map for this
exciting journey of a lifetime which will make you know and realize how great an individual you
are. Let’s go!

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 Let’s Review

Suggested Time Allotment: 1 minute

In the previous module, you learned how being self-reliant can empower you to make
contributions to the needs of others and the community. Let us see if you still remember these
things.

Let’s Try This

Suggested Time Allotment: 5 minutes

“B1 and B2”

Your task is to identify the beliefs and behaviors that can affect your career decisions.
Write beliefs under Column B1 and behaviors under Column B2. List down at least 3 in each
column. An example has been provided for you.

B1 B2
(Beliefs) (Behaviors)
Example:

I believe that engineering is not for me I do the tasks given to me responsibly.

because I am not good in Math, though I
want to.

1.
2.
3.

Processing Questions:
1. What helped you identify your beliefs and behaviors?
2. How did you feel when you were identifying your beliefs and behaviors?
3. Why is it important to consider these beliefs and behaviors in your career decision
making?

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 Let’s Explore This

Now that you have identified some of your beliefs and behaviors that might affect your
career decisions, it is time to check on what others have to say about these beliefs to help you
see all sides. This, then, will help you decide on what Track and Strand to take in Senior High
School.

Suggested Time Allotment: 10 minutes

Covered All Corners

1. Request your family members to join and perform this activity.

2. Make a group with 4 members.
3. Choose one from beliefs and one from behaviors you listed down as your topic
for discussion.
4. Arrange yourselves in a square, with each of you in one of four corners that
represent “agree,” “disagree,” “slightly agree” and “totally disagree” and write
the reason why one agrees, slightly agrees, disagrees or totally disagrees on
the table.

Belief/ Agree Slightly Disagree Totally

Behavior Agree Disagree
Belief -

Behavior -

5. Discuss each topic from the perspective of what your corner represents.

Processing Question:

1. Why did you choose the belief and behavior that you presented and discussed with family
members?
2. How do you feel when your family members showed agreement, slight agreement,
disagreement or total disagreement to your chosen belief and behavior?
3. How did this help you in examining your beliefs and behaviors and help you to decide
what particular track and strand to take in senior high school?

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 Keep in Mind

Suggested Time Allotment: 15 minutes

Beliefs and Behaviors

Our beliefs and behaviors are shaped by the culture we grew up in. Culture affects the
way we perceive things, situations, people, values and expectations, including the way we
regard jobs and careers. It is a person’s culture that influences his or her beliefs and behaviors
about certain occupations.

In a modern world like ours in which diversity is respected and celebrated, even,
culture, while it remains significant, is no longer the sole consideration of a person in deciding
what career to pursue. For instance, a person, due to his or her culture, thinks that science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are fields mainly for males to pursue. Labor
trends and patterns as well as studies actually suggest that STEM-related jobs are high-
paying, professionally fulfilling and life-changing. More females will want to pursue studies
and careers that are STEM-related because of the crucial information given. Our beliefs and
behaviors are constantly evolving so that we can move with the changing times with relevance
and vigor.

What is a traditional occupation?

Traditional occupations have often been defined as jobs that have been done and
accomplished by skilled workers for generations. Traditional occupations vary with each
region, country, customs and culture. For instance, a few of the traditional occupations in Goa,
a state in coast of India, include sand extraction and betel nut farming. In the Philippines,
agriculture, fishing, gathering of forest products and traditional craft skills are the popular
traditional occupations that our ancestors engaged in.

Gender dimensions of occupations

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 Before, men and women were expected to make a career by what the society’s
perception and norms dictate. These stereotypes of following gender-based jobs can be a
hindrance in making career decisions because how we view our capabilities greatly impacts
how we respond to opportunities that come our way.

What is a non-traditional occupation?

Non-traditional occupation refers to work and job that have been done and fulfilled by
one gender. For instance, a non-traditional occupation for males include being a nurse, a
dietitian, a dental hygienist and an administrative assistant. On the other hand, non-traditional
occupation for females include being a radio broadcaster, an electrical technician, an engineer
and a contractor. When questioning one’s self on which career path to follow, one must
consider all the available options. We should not limit ourselves into choosing a career based
on our gender and the stereotypes that surround it. Women can be a part of law enforcement
and men can be a seamstress and they can both be great at their chosen field of work if their
skills, interests and passion will be used. A non-traditional career should be given thought
because these occupations often offer much higher salaries and benefits.

Career Mapping

Maps serve as our guide in navigating our way to new places with clarity and certainty.
While life may be full of twists and turns, when we have the aid of a reliable map, we will not
have to worry about getting lost in the middle of nowhere.

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 In these modern times, we have heard about Google maps, Waze and other Global
Positioning System (GPS) navigation software applications that can provide us with up-to-date
information about driving directions, traffic reports and road alerts.

Career mapping can be likened to these software applications and the great thing
about it is that it will also get us to where we want to be in life.

Career Mapping is a way to visualize in a form of a map what you want to achieve in
your career. This may include the steps and even the barriers in reaching that desired career.

Your career portfolio, which can be comprised of the selection of your work as a learner
(grades, drawings, papers, tests, journal entries, etc.) will help you create a quality career
map. It may also contain testimonials and recommendation letters from your teachers as well
as life skill activities you may be engaged in, various contests In which you have participated,
your extra-curricular activities as well as awards earned. Even the contents of your homeroom
guidance modules and other enrichment activities from the Department which promote your
holistic development can be included in your career map.

Utilizing all these available data in your career map with the aim to explore your strengths,
weaknesses as well as your ups and downs in your life as a learner will help you prepare
adequately.

Steps Toward Career Planning and Preparation

1. Self-assessment and research. Knowing one’s strengths and skills is advantageous in

planning one’s career. You can also evaluate your situation and preferences in this stage.
When you have narrowed down the choices and options to be considered, it can lead to clarity
and concentration and a step closer to planning your career.

2. Exploration and experimentation. After you have named and specified your skills and goals,
it is now time to experiment and find potential careers that might suit you. Participating in part-
time jobs and internships can provide opportunity to see different workplace environment and
functions.

3. Decision-making. After you have explored a number of career options, you can now decide
on a certain career path. Put in mind that you don’t have to decide on just one career but you
must weigh the pros and cons, as well as the risks and the general climate of a certain field of
work.

You Can Do It

Suggested Time Allotment: 10 minutes

Make a career map following the content on the activity sheet towards your desired
profession and taking into consideration the educational and employment opportunities along
the way.

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 Activity Sheet. Career Map

Period Where I Should be Education that I Employment

should have finished Training that I opportunities
should Attend along the way
2020 Grade 9 Join more
2021 Grade 10 JHS Completer activities on
2022 Grade 11 Promoted to next level Clubs/Organizati Part-time work at
Curriculum/TechVo ons that will fast food
c/Arts & develop your stores/groceries,
Designs/Sports skills and etc.
2023 Grade 12 SHS Graduate interests.
Curriculum/TechVo
c/Arts &
Designs/Sports
2024 College/Tech- Promoted to next level Attend trainings
Voc/Business/ related to the
Work, Y I chosen course or
2025 College/Tech- Promoted to next field.
Voc/Business/ level/NC4 Holder
Work , Y II
2026 College/Business/ Promoted to next level
Work, Y III
2027 College/
Business/Work, Y College Degree
IV (for 4-year
course)
2028 College/
Business/Work, Y V
(for 5-year course)
2029 Board Exam Passer Enhancement Contractual
Trainings-Local employee
2030 Successful and International Regular employee
Business/Employed

Processing Questions:

1. How do you consider the steps toward successful career planning and
preparation?
2. How do you see yourself in realizing and valuing those plans?
3. In what way do you relate the relevance of deciding on what track & strand do
you plan to pursue?

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 What I have learned

Suggested Time Allotment: 10 minutes

What I Like to be
In a sheet of paper, design a plan that will enhance your valued personal beliefs and
behaviors for the chosen track and strand projecting the traditional and nontraditional
occupations.

Name: ____________________________ Section: ___________________________

Track & Strand Valued Personal Traditional Non-Traditional
Beliefs and Occupation Occupations
Behaviors
1 1 1 1
2 2 2
3 3 3

Share your Thoughts & Feelings

Suggested Time Allotment: 9 minutes

When You Believe

“Who knows what miracles you can achieve? When you believe, somehow you will, you will
when you believe”

The following words are taken from the song, “When You Believe” by Mariah Carey
and Whitney Houston. Reflect on the words for a moment and remember the role that mind-
setting plays in influencing and determining our success. Belief is integral in making anything
happen and it cannot be said enough: change your mindset, change your life!

Nonetheless, knowing the Life Story of Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago for the skills
and abilities she possessed which brought her astonishing success in her chosen career, will
also be of help to you. Read the life story of Miriam Defensor Santiago in brief.

Miriam Defensor Santiago is a globally famous personality, because of her legal

brilliance and courageous example in fighting corruption. She is one of the most intellectually
brilliant leaders that our country ever had.

Dr. Santiago was class valedictorian at all levels – elementary, high school, and
college. She earned the degrees Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude; and Bachelor of Laws,
cum laude, from the University of the Philippines. She went abroad and earned the graduate
degrees of Master of Laws, and Doctor of Juridical Science, from the University of Michigan,
one of the top three law schools in the United States. She finished the academic requirements

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for the degree Master of Arts in Religious Studies, at the Maryhill School of Theology. She has
also done postdoctoral studies all over the world, including Oxford University, Cambridge
University, Harvard University, University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, and
Academy of Public International Law at the Peace Palace (the seat of the International Court
of Justice), at The Hague, Netherlands. If there is one thing Sen. Miriam is highly passionate
about, it is learning.

She has brought honor to the Philippines in several ways. She is the first Filipino and
the first Asian from a developing country, to be elected in the United Nations as judge of the
International Criminal Court. She was chosen as laureate of the Magsaysay Award for
Government Service, known as the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize. She was cited “for
bold and moral leadership in cleaning up a graft-ridden government agency.” She was named
one of “The 100 Most Powerful Women in the World” by The Australian magazine.

Dr. Santiago holds an amazing record of excellence in all three branches of

government – judicial, executive, and legislative. In the judicial branch, she has been presiding
judge of the Regional Trial Court at Quezon City. In the executive branch, she has been
immigration commissioner; and a cabinet member, as agrarian reform secretary. In the
legislative branch, she has been a senator for three terms.

Processing Questions:

1. What can you say about Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago’s life story?
2. How do you think she has become the person she was?
3. How can you utilize your skills and abilities to reach your desired career?

Reference

Senate of the Philippines. Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago Biography.

https://www.senate.gov.ph/senators/sen_bio/santiago_bio.asp

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