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