The Integration of Career Guidance in the K to 12

Macario Ontal

Assistant Chief

OIC-Curriculum and Instruction Division

Presentation Guide

• Where are we? (Real Scenario )

• What have we done?

• What is DepED doing?

• What do we need to do next

1. Where are we? (Real Scenario )

• Our Graduates- disadvantaged ( young and inadequate preparation)

• First NCAE result, SY 2006-2007, showed that

– 3.76 -aptitude for college

– 58.03- inclination for entrepreneurship and tech-voc education

(1.3 M graduating students in Public and Private schools)

Where are we? (Real Scenario )

• Majority who do not pursue college

• Too young to enter the labor force

• Those who intent to go into business to young to legally enter into contracts

2. What have we done?

• RHGP –Revitalized Homeroom program

(1989 NSEC to 2002 BEC

• Edukasyon sa Pagpapahalaga: 2010 SEC

• Homeroom Guidance Program

RHGP MODULE: First Year

Meeting Goal Setting & Decision Making Career Planning

1 Setting Realistic Goals Self-discovery

2 First Goal in High School Knowing Yourself

3 Weighing Options Analyzing your interest & aptitudes

4 Factors Affecting One’s Decision Making a Career choice

5 Steps in Decision Making

Module 2: 2nd Year

Meeting Goal Setting & Decision Making Career Planning

1 Setting Attainable Goals Plotting your career direction

2 Establishing Clear Goals Choosing a suitable career for you

3 Making your dream Come true Work skills

4 Achieving short-term goals Values and vocation

5 Steps in Decision Making Choosing a career

Module 2: 3rd year

Meeting Goal Setting & Decision Making Career Planning

1 Mission and Goals Concept of career planning

2 Setting goals and teaching them Writing a resume

3 Deciding step by step Application for employment

4 Using a model in decision making Passing the interview

5 Predicting outcomes Attitude in job hunting

Module 2: 4th Year

Meeting Goal Setting & Decision Making Career Planning

1 Your life and your goal Going to college

2 Seeing through future Where to search for job

3 Life Plans Preparing for a job

4 Qualities of good employee

Finding on the implementation of RHGP

• Acquiring greater self-awareness and self-knowledge (aware of their strength and weaknesses)

• Learning new skills and behavior such as setting goals, decision making, making friends, discerning true form exploitative friends and better study habits

• Functional guidance program, peer counseling enhanced

3. What is the department doing?

• K to 12 basic Education Program

- Career Pathways

- Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao

• Practices on Career Guidance

Imperatives for k to 12

• Produce holistically developed learners who 21st century skills

• Decongest the curriculum to improve mastery of basic competencies

• Ensure seamlessness of elementary, secondary and post secondary competencies

Imperatives for k to 12

• Improve teaching through the use of enhanced pedagogies and medium of instruction

• Expand job opportunities by reducing jobs-skills mismatch and providing better preparation for

- higher education

- middle level skills development

- employment/entrepreneurship

Curriculum model of k to 12

• Grade 11-12

– core academic areas (5)

• Academic specialization – Engineering, journalism/foreign language

• Tech-voc specialization

• Sports specialization

• entrepreneurship

Curriculum model of k to 12

• Grade 7-8, and 9-10,

– Core academic areas (8)

include TLE (choice of agri-fishery, industrial arts, HE or ICT)

• Core Learning areas plus MT until grade 3; Science starting grade 3; EPP starting grade 4

• Grade K- Learning domains

Curriculum model of k to 12

Junior/Senior HS curriculum offers tracks that lead to specialization in

- academics

` - Tech-Voc

-Sports and Arts

-entrepreneurship

Career pathways

• For learners to tap into their strengths and make a career our of their talents, which may be in the field of science, arts, sports, journalism language

-Technology and livelihood program

- special program in journalism

- special program in foreign language

-SPA -SPS -SPED

Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao (EsP): Discipline Base

• Ethics- morality of human acts

• Career Guidance- matching of learners skill, interest and aptitude with the requirements of industry and the world of work (DO no. 67, s. 1997

Career Guidance Concepts

1. Awareness of Self: Strengths, skills, aptitudes, interest, preferences

1.1 Uniqueness of every person

1.2 Arousing a desire to a productive member of the society

1.3 values to be stressed- self respect, integrity

Career Guidance Concepts

2. Awareness and appreciation of People, starting with members of one’s family and people in the community whose ocupation/career (vtp) contribute to the sociey.

2.1 values-valuing others, openness, integrity

Career Guidance Concepts 3. Awareness of the factors to be considered in

choosing the right career

3.1 importance of being in the right career

3.2 benefits to the:

a. person- happy, fulfilled and productive

b. family and society: when a person is happy, fulfilled and productive, there is no need to work abroad that may break the family

3.3 values-service to and love of the country

Career Guidance Concepts

4. Choosing the right course to take to prepare a person for the right career (vtp)

4.1 need to have valid, accurate information about the career

4.2 matching the person with career

4.3 values: service to and love of the country

PRACTICES ON CAREER GUIDANCE UNDER THE K TO 12 PROGRAM

• Career awareness Building- General orientation of students, starts of classes in G7

• Administration of the HS Occupational Interest inventory in G8

• Administration of the NCAE in G9

• Comprehensive Guidance Program- K to 12

Comprehensive guidance program

• Individual inventory( mental ability, aptitude test) • Feedback (congruence of results with

jobs/careers) • Career action plan • Placement(career guidance orientation, DOLE’s

career coaching • Follow up (ey) reachout to students, reproduce

CG mats. Bulletin boards • NCAE (third year) • Career decision (after Junior or Senior HS)

What do we do need to do next?

• Formulation of core messages on career guidance

• Integration of CG core messages in Curr. Guides, modules and Teaching guides or relevant learning areas

• Formulation of M&E framework

• Allocation of a permanent budget source for CG activities

• Strengthening of networking activities and partnerships