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Homeroom Guidance
Quarter 1 – Module 4:
Me and My Decisions

Homeroom Guidance Self-learning Module – Grade 11

Quarter 1 Module 4: Me and My Decisions
2020 Edition
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Me and My Decisions. Manila: Department of Education Central Office, 2020.

Published by the Department of Education

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Homeroom Guidance Grade 11
Quarter 1 – Module 4:
Me and My Decisions
 Gabay sa Magulang/Tagapag-alaga
Malaki ang gampanin ng mga magulang upang mapagtagumpayan ang mga
gawaing nakalatag dito. Kakailanganin ng mag-aaral ang inyong patnubay at gabay
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suporta upang mapagtagumpayan ng mag-aaral ang mga hamon sa buhay,
maisakatuparan ang mga inaasahang gawain at higit sa lahat, matutuhan ang mga
kasanayan sa buhay na kailangan nilang taglayin sa yugtong ito.

Isinulat ang modyul na ito upang gabayan ang mag-aaral na linangin ang
kaniyang aspektong personal at sosyal, akademiko, at karera. Dinisenyo ito 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.

Makatutulong ang araling ito upang hubugin ang kaniyang kakayahang

bumuo ng tamang desisyon o pagpapasiya. Tiyakin na sasagutin niya ang bawat
bahagi ng modyul nang tapat. Siguraduhing maipapasa niya ang kaniyang sagutang
papel sa petsa at oras na itinakda ng kaniyang gurong-tagapayo.

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Introductory Message

For the learner:

As a growing adolescent, the issues that you face become more complex and
serious as compared to those you experienced during your elementary or junior high
school days. These issues require you to be more careful, responsible and critical
with your options as any decision has an impact to your life. You can choose your
decisions but the same cannot be said of their consequences.

Indulge yourself in the activities of this module. Have time to reflect how
insights and realizations can be useful in your daily life. Make the most of this
learning journey to improve yourself.
 This self-learning module has six interactive tasks such as:

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; and

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 asked to do.

Have fun! Stay safe and healthy!

MODU ME AND MY DECISIONS

LE 4
Learning Objectives
At the end of this module, you are expected to:

1. describe what makes a right and a wrong decision or action;

2. demonstrate awareness on the indicators of committing right and wrong
decisions; and
 3. appreciate appropriate response in dealing with right or wrong decisions.

Period: Week 4

Suggested Total Time Allotment: 60 Minutes

Materials Needed: Clean sheets of paper/bond papers, pen or pencil, and coloring
materials

Introduction

We are what we make. Our actions and decisions affect the way we
live our lives. If you decide to study despite the hardships during this pandemic, this
decision affects your daily activities which may include household chores, errands,
and the like. Because you chose to study, your daily life would now include
accomplishing self-learning modules and communicating with your teachers or
classmates in various ways. This is an illustration of how your life becomes
dependent to your decisions. May this module help to appreciate how you
can improve your way of living through your own decisions.

Let’s Try This

Suggested Time Allotment: 10 Minutes

Myself, Deciding Right and Wrong

How do you describe yourself when you have committed a right decision? How about
if you have committed a wrong decision? Get a short bond paper, pencil and coloring.

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Divide the bond paper into two and draw yourself when you have committed a right
and wrong decision.

This is ME when I have a committed a This is ME RIGHT Decision

when I have a committed a
WRONG Decision
 Answer the following processing questions on a clean paper. Make sure to write
your name, title of the activity and compile it in your portfolio.

Processing Questions:
1. How do you compare the two images of yourself?
In the first one I am happy in the second one I look like when a computer virus
enters your computer, then it lags and just eeeeEEEeeEeeEEeeE then shuts
down.
2. Did you have the same decision-making process for both situations? Explain
an example for each.
No, I (only) often get good outcomes from a (good) decision when I think about it
really hard. When I act out impulsively that’s when things usually go downhill
for me.
3. If you are to assess whatever decisions you made in the past 2 months,
where do you categorize them and why?
Some were good, some were bad. It was a good decision to study for my
exam and fix my notes, it was a bad idea to answer this module
late.

Let’s Explore This

Suggested Time Allotment: 15 Minutes

Remember more about your experiences in making right and wrong decisions.
At the back of the same paper, explain the situations where each image reflects.
Make your answer in essay format guided by the following pointers.

• What was running in your head when you were in that situation? •
What did you feel about the situation?
• What did you do about the situation?

• How did your body react to the situation?

Back in 8th grade we had a play in our English class, and I was assigned as the script writer
along with another classmate. When it was time for our due rehearsal, the script was
 missing. I was the one blamed for it even though I wasn’t the one assigned to print the
scripts. I got pissed off, and I really wanted to snap and fight back. But I was tired at the
same time. I felt so frustrated and angry at myself and everyone in the class. I started to write
down stupid and atrocius word on my forearm (cause oohh I’m so edgy and blah blah blah). I
decided to go outside the room. Then one of my classmates, who wasn’t aware of the
comotion inside, asked me to go to the library with her, to which I said yes to. After some
time, I cooled off, and we decided to go back to the classroom as our class had ended and it
was time for us to go home. When I get back to the classroom, everyone was packing up
their stuffs and my close friends came to me telling me that they were looking for me, worried
that I might do something stupid or something that could harm myself. I told them everything
was fine and we just took a ride home after that.

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Processing Questions: Considering the many choices that we face each
day, it is imperative to know relevant information
1. What insights did you get from both the on how to
experiences of making a right and a wrong better handle
decision? It was wrong for me to be pissed out decision-
right away, but it was also wrong not to stand up making.
for myself. It was good that I decided to leave and Although we
cool down for a bit, but I should have told my differ in
friends about my whereabouts before leaving so
handling
they wouldn’t have been worried.
decision, we
2. What changes did both decisions make in your
learn better
life?
It made me love wandering around alone out of by tracing
the blue. Having a me time in a quiet place really back how
made me happy and calm. others dealt
3. If given a chance, would you still do the same with it and
decisions? Why or why not? how they
Yes, but I would give my points to the argument managed to handle it.
before or after leaving to cool down.

Keep in Mind
Suggested Time Allotment: 15 Minutes

In a study on Competence and Quality in Real-

Life Decision Making by Martin Geisler and Carl
Martin Allwood published on November 6, 2015,
the researchers established that self-awareness
or our ability to self-monitor is associated with our
capacity to make sound judgment.

In the same light, emotional intelligence supports

the belief that our emotions affect our decisions.
The ability to properly know the emotion in self
and others have direct relationship in decision-
making. Moreover, time-approach is a decision-
making competence. People tend to believe in
right or wrong timing in dealing with decisions.
There may be decisions made in rush but come
out right, but there are those that result in the
negative. There are instances that procrastination
or delaying few things bring acceptable results,
depending on the timing of the decision-making.
The latter, however, should not be taken as a
good example in all other life undertakings.

When do you know if you are about to commit

a right or a wrong decision? Nobody knows
better your situation except you. Hence, it would
be helpful to look at the bigger picture and
analyze the impact of your decisions. The
following are just some ways that you can use as
guide:

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1. Any decision-making process should come with facts. We don’t decide
based on impulse or gut feel most especially if the decision would mean a
complete turn-around of your life, for example, your college course or
curriculum exit. Have those helpful facts guide you on your next move.

2. Weigh the pros and cons. In school, you are being trained to be responsible
and accountable to all your actions. You cannot blame anybody for your
decisions except for some setup. The moment you said yes to indulge
yourself with vices, you are embracing its consequences as well. The same
way when you resolved to yourself to finish studies and have a stable career
in the future, you are up to face the challenges that come with it.

3. Consult people if you must. Nobody has the monopoly of

knowledge. There are times that even experts must seek the
help of their family, friends and colleagues. In your context, you
can ask help from your trusted adults like Guidance Counselor,
teacher or parents. However, keep in mind that your
experiences are different from the experiences of the people
around you so be particular in terms of what is doable and what is
not in your setup.
 4. Own whatever decisions you make. At the end of the day, you are
responsible on how you define your life. At this point, you cannot delegate the
important decisions for your life to others and blame them if they are wrong.
Blaming is never a solution to correct any wrong actions. Take charge of your
choices and be prepared for whatever it costs. However, be mindful of the
limitations of your actions as there are areas where you still need to depend
on some people like your parents or guardians.

5. Remember that you are a work in progress. Would you know

anybody who did not commit any mistake in the past? All of us,
even your parents, teachers, Guidance Counselor or classmates
make mistakes at times but it should not stop us from becoming the
better version of ourselves. Despite considering the facts and
weighing the pros and cons, there are times that we still fail to make
the right decisions and, that’s totally OK. We can use our insights and
learnings from our mistakes and that’s how we make sense out of
the past experiences. It should improve our perspective and make
us more mature.

You Can Do It!

Suggested Time Allotment: 10 Minutes

Write a narration of a decision you made in the past which you consider a wrong
one. Imagine how it would change if you apply all or any of the ways discussed in the
previous part of the module. What could have happened if the course of action was
different? Do this on a piece of paper.

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What I Have Learned
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 Minutes
Write your answer on a sheet of paper.
How will you improve your decision-making? Write at least 5 things that you certainly
can apply in yourself.
You need to use your brain and be responsible for the outcomes of your actions.
Learn the pros and cons of what you're gonna do. Apply logic to your decision
making, don’t be irrational or impulsive. If you still feel like you need more insights or
advice, you can ask people who are close to you about what they think of what
you’re about to do.After that, once you feel sure with what you’ll be choosing, you
can make a decision already, but remember to be mindful and responsible for your
actions.

Share Your Thoughts and Feelings

Suggested Time Allotment: 5 Minutes
Complete the phrases below. Do this on a sheet of
 paper.

A right decision for me is… the one that is heavily thought on and doesn’t result in harming
anyone.
It is OK to commit a wrong decision as long as… you learn from it
From now on, I will own my decision by… being responsible for my actions

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Reference

Geisler, Martin, and Carl Martin Allwood. "Competence and Quality in Real-Life
Decision Making." PLOS ONE. Accessed January 11, 2018.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?

id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0142178. ===================

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