Learning Activity Sheet

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT 11, QUARTER 2

Name of Learner: __________________________________ Grade Level: _______________

Section: ___________________________________________ Date: ______________________

LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET NO. __6__

LESSON 1

I. Introduction

A career is defined as the combination and sequence of roles played by a

person during the course of a lifetime (Super, 1980). Your career basically dictates
a lot of things in your life – it can determine the kind of lifestyle that you will be
leading, the quality of relationships that you have with people around you like
your family and friends, the kind of balance you will be able to keep with your life
and your responsibilities.
In this lesson, you will learn that different factors such as career
development concepts and personal life goals influence career planning and
decision-making.

II. Learning Competency

EsP-PD11/12PC-IIf-12.1: Explain that understanding different factors, career

development concepts and personal life goals influence career planning and
decision-making.

III. Specific Objectives

At the end of the lesson, students are expected to:

1. explain that understanding of the concepts of career and life goals can help
in planning your career; and
2. identify the personal factors influencing career choices

IV. Discussion

Career Concepts
There are two other concepts that we often associate with the concept of
career. One is a job. A job is a position an individual holds in doing specific duties.
For example, if you would look closely at the job of a lawyer, you can say that a
lawyer’s job is to work as an associate in X Law Firm.
Another term is occupation. An occupation is defined as the similar work
for which people have similar responsibilities and for which they develop a
common set of skills and knowledge. For example, people who are in the mental

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health occupation would include psychologists, clinical psychologists, counselors,
and psychiatrists.
A lot of things can influence one’s career choice. A popular career
development model, the Trait and Factor model, believes that skills and abilities
need to fit the demands of a particular field. This being said, it is then important
that you take stock of the skills, knowledge and abilities that you currently
possess and those you still need to develop as these greatly impact the kind of
career that could be a good match for you.
Another factor that could influence your success in a particular career
field would be your personality and interest. John Holland, a popular career
counselor proposed a theory which strongly believes that certain careers require
certain personality traits and must also fit our interests.
Our life roles are yet strong factors that influence our career choices. Your
role as a child, a sister, a student, and eventually if you choose it, that of a parent
would have impact in the decisions that you would have to make as an adult.
Donald Super, another career development theorist believes that since we play an
array of roles in our lives, these roles are likely to change over time thus
requirements, needs and other external forces would come into play when we are
trying to figure out or maintain a career.
One’s race and ethnicity could also impact our choices. The culture in
which we belong shapes our values and expectations. In the Philippines, our
collectivist orientation makes our family a strong influence in our career decisions.
More often than not, the choice of course to take in college, the location of our job,
how strong-willed we will be in achieving great heights in our career, would most
likely be influenced by our family roles, duties and obligations.
Our social identity, specifically our gender, also possesses challenges and
opportunities for us when choosing a career. Although nowadays, the gender
divide in terms of careers have slowly narrowed, it is a known fact that men and
women experience career-related stereotypes.
One of the strongest considerations in career decision making has a lot to
do with social and economic conditions. Our choice of career is contingent to
our capabilities to sustain the monetary demands of pursuing formal education to
train for it. Also, our financial obligations and roles likewise would determine the
kind of occupation we would be pursuing in order to fulfill these duties.
Furthermore, certain life events can also influence our career choices. The
unpredictability of these events may cause us to make certain concessions in
order to meet the demands brought about by these changes. Likewise, the volatile
economic landscape and how it impacts the supply and demand for people and
jobs may also impact how our careers would progress.
Life Roles - Being a worker is just one of your life roles, in addition to
others such as, student, parent, and child. Super's Lifespan theory directly
addresses the fact that we play multiple roles in our lives and that these roles
change over the course of our lives. How we think about ourselves in these roles,
their requirements, and the external forces that affect them, may influence how we
look at careers in general and how we make choices for ourselves.

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 Previous Experiences - Krumboltz's Social Learning and Planned
Happenstance theories address factors related to our experiences with others and
in previous work situations. Having positive experiences and role models working
in specific careers may influence the set of careers we consider as options for
ourselves. One aspect of Social Cognitive Career Theory addresses the fact that we
are likely to consider continuing a particular task if we have had a positive
experience doing it. In this way, we focus on areas in which we have had proven
success and achieved positive self-esteem.
Social and Economic Conditions - All of our career choices take place
within the context of society and the economy. Several career theories, such as
Social Cognitive Career Theory and Social Learning, address this context in
addition to other factors. Events that take place in our lives may affect the choices
available to us and even dictate our choices to a certain degree. Changes in the
economy and resulting job market may also affect how our careers develop.
Childhood Fantasies - What do you want to be when you grow-up? You
may remember this question from your childhood, and it may have helped shape
how you thought about careers then, as well as later in life. Career counselling
theories are expanding as programs related to career choice are developed for all
ages, including the very young. Ginzberg proposed a theory that describes three
life stages related to career development. The first stage, fantasy, where early ideas
about careers are formed, takes place up to age 11.

V. Activities

A. What are My Plans?

Directions: List down your career plans after Senior High School.
1.__________________________________________________________
2.__________________________________________________________
3.__________________________________________________________
4.__________________________________________________________
5.__________________________________________________________

B. Choose it Right
Directions: Read the questions carefully and encircle the letter that corresponds to
the best answer.
1. Both men and women have experienced career related stereotypes, which factor
best describes this?
a. sex c. social
b. gender d. job
2. Being a worker is just one of your ____________, in addition to others such as,
student, parent, and child.
a. gender c. life roles
b. job d. occupation

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 3. John Holland, a popular career counselor proposed a theory that strongly
believes that certain careers require certain personality traits and must also fit
our interests. Which factor is described in this?
a. skills and abilities c. race and ethnicity
b. previous experiences d. personality and interest
4. What factor is involved in this question, “What do you want to be when you
grow up?”
a. childhood fantasies c. gender
b. life roles d. personality and interest
5. Having ___________ experiences and role models working in specific careers may
influence the set of careers we consider as options for ourselves.
a. negative c. positive
b. traumatic d. unforgettable
6. Changes in the economy and resulting job market may also affect how our
careers develop. What factor is described in this?
a. childhood fantasies
b. social and economic conditions
c. gender
d. personality and interest
7. One aspect of Social Cognitive Career Theory addresses the fact that we are
likely to consider continuing a particular task if we have had a positive
experience doing it. What factor is described in this?
a. skills and abilities c. race and ethnicity
b. previous experiences d. personality and interest
8. Our financial obligations and roles likewise would determine the kind of
occupation we would be pursuing in order to fulfill these duties. What factor is
described in this?
a. childhood fantasies c. gender
b. social and economic conditions d. personality and interest

VI. Assessment

Directions: List down five factors that you consider in planning your career.
1. __________________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________________
4. __________________________________________________________
5. __________________________________________________________

VII. Reflection

Directions: Express your insights/realization about this lesson by answering the

question below.

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 Why is it important to plan for your future career?

VIII. Reference

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lopment_reader_v13_final_apr_28_2016.pdf

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LESSON 2

I. Introduction

In making a vocational choice, individuals are expressing their self-concept,

or understanding of self, which evolves over time. People seek career satisfaction
through work roles in which they can confidently perform by themselves and
improve further.
Knowing this, it would make sense that the individual should know the
skills he or she already acquired, want to learn, and develop further.
In this lesson, you will prepare a career plan based on the identified career
options to attain personal life’s goals.

II. Learning Competency

EsP-PD11/12PC-IIf-12.2: Prepare a career plan based on the identified career

options to attain personal life’s goals

III. Specific Objectives

At the end of the lesson, students are expected to:

1. prepare a career plan based on the identified career options to attain
personal life’s goals; and
2. take a self-assessment tool to know personality traits and other personal
factors in relation to goals.

IV. Discussion

SUPER’S CAREER DEVELOPMENT THEORY

Donald Super influenced the idea that developing a sense of self and
realize that you change over time is important when planning your career.
One of Donald Super's greatest contributions to career development has
been his emphasis on the importance of the development of self-concept.
According to Super, self-concept changes over time, and develops as a result of
experience. As such, career development is lifelong.
Super developed the theories and work of colleague Eli Ginzberg.
Ginzberg’s theory which enumerated three stages in a person’s career
development: Fantasy (from birth to 11 years old), Tentative (from 11-17 years
old), and Realistic (after age 17). Super thought that Ginzberg’s work had
weaknesses, which he wanted to address. Super extended Ginzberg’s life and
career development stages from three to five, and included different sub stages.
Super argues that occupational preferences and competencies, along with
an individual’s life situations, all change with time and experience. Super
developed the concept of vocational maturity, which may or may not correspond to
chronological age: people cycle through each of these stages when they go through
career transitions.

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 Super’s Five Life and Career Development Stages
Stage Age Characteristics
Growth birth-14 Development of self-concept,
attitudes, needs and general
world of work
Exploration 15-24 "Trying out" through classes,
work hobbies. Tentative choice
and skill development
Establishment 25-44 Entry-level skill building and
stabilization through work
experience
Maintenance 45-64 Continual adjustment process
to improve position
Decline 65+ Reduced output, prepare for
retirement

Developmental Tasks at These Different Stages

Adolescence Early Middle Late
14-25 adulthood adulthood adulthood
25- 45 45- 65 65+
Giving less time Reducing sports Focusing on Reducing
to hobbies participation essentials working hours
Verifying Making Holding one's Keeping what
current occupational own against one enjoys
occupational position secure competition
choice
Getting started Settling down in Developing new Doing things
in a chosen field a suitable skills one has wanted
position to do
Learning more Finding desired Identifying new Finding a good
about opportunity tasks to work retirement place
opportunities on
Developing a Learning to Accepting one's Developing and
realistic self- relate to others own limitations valuing non-
concept occupational
roles

Super states that in making a vocational choice individuals are expressing their self-
concept, or understanding of self, which evolves over time. People seek career
satisfaction through work roles in which they can express themselves and further
implement and develop their self-concept.

V. Activities

A. True or False
Directions: Write True if the statement is correct and False if otherwise.
_______1. Super developed the concept of vocational maturity.
_______2. Eli Ginzberg worked alone in formulating theories on career
development.

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_______3. Super extended Ginzberg’s life and career development stages from three
to five.
_______4. Super developed the concept of vocational management.
_______5. Continual adjustment process to improve position is manifested during
the Establishment Stage at the age of 25-44.
_______6. Growth is from birth up to 14 years old.
_______7. Preparing for retirement is during the maintenance stage.
_______8. I’m on my 50’s and focusing on the essentials are my priority.
_______9. Being on my 20’s means identifying new tasks to work on.
_______10. Deciding to retire would be appropriate at age 60

B. Planning Ahead
Directions: Write an essay about your career plan. How do you see yourself 10
years from now?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Assessment

SKILLS ASSESSMENT WORKSHEET

Directions: Put a check (/) on column if the skill is already acquired, want to learn,
or develop further. You can have the same skill marked more than once in each
column.

Skill and examples Already Want Develop

Acquired to Further
Learn
Communication Skills (speak in
public, writing letters, listening to
others etc.)
Technical Skills (being athletic, doing
build or construct things or structures,
drive, operate, repair or set up
machines or equipment etc.)
Number Skills (compute, calculate,
using spreadsheet on a computer,
manage budget etc.)
Creative/Artistic Skills (use artistic
ability, photograph, decorate, draw,
paint or sculpt, use musical ability,
sing, compose or play instruments etc.)
People and Social Skills (care, treat,
heal, nurse or rehabilitate others,
counsel, empower, coach, guide or
listen to individuals, teach, train,
instruct, inform or explain to a group)
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VII. Reflection

Directions: Express your insights/realization about this lesson by completing

the below.

The current skills that I acquire, want to learn and further develop made
me realized that…

VIII. Reference

https://buenavistanhs.weebly.com/uploads/7/2/2/8/7228051/personal_deve
lopment_reader_v13_final_apr_28_2016

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Key to Correction

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