Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Caraga Administrative Region
Division of Agusan del Sur
PATIN-AY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
(Carved- Out School from ASSAT/DepEd Accredited Technical Vocational High School)
(Operating Unit – Empowered)
D.O. Plaza Government Center, Patin-ay Prosperidad Agusan del Sur

CAREER GUIDANCE
ADVOCACY PROGRAM
FOR GRADE 12
STUDENTS

Module 6
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 6 Keep Me Balanced!

Introduction

Values are a fundamental building block of your Mission in Life (Clarke, 2012).
Brown (1995) in her Values-Based Holistic Approach to Career Development third
tenets stated that values play an important role in the career decision-making process
of individuals more than their interests. An individual’s value orientation greatly molds
and influences his/her functioning as this presents the direction to a desired end state
and has a central role in setting goals or expected outcomes. Values also serve as the
basis for evaluating one’s own actions and the action of others, particularly in terms of
how the individual and others must function (Villar, 2009).

This module will let you identify your possessed values to keep you balanced
with those values shared by your significant others—school, family, and community.
You may be able to know yourselves better as you continue navigating vast
opportunities in your lifelong journey.

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I. Objectives

At the end of this module, the learners are expected to:

1. identify their values that leads to the attainment of their career goals;
2. evaluate their values that influenced their career and life decisions; and
3. plan ways on how to resolve conflict in their values to successfully achieve
their career and life goals.

II. Motivation

Activity 1: Mine Me Game

In this game, you are expected to become aware of the different values a
person possesses that somehow could affect his/her career choice.

Directions:

Rearrange the jumbled letters and come up with the correct words/phrases and
write it in the answer column.

Jumbled Letters Answer

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nfinacila tabsiliyt

ahelht

didenpenenec

amfily aphpiessn

icopemtiton

resptieg

nhyeost

cersvie to toersh

bdet of ragtitued

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erconitingo

ncdigeeli

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 apesurel

papearacen

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nokwledeg

niterigty

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aadvnceentm

1. Looking at the words/phrases on the board, what do you think are these
about?
2. How important are these values to a person’s life?
3. How does ones’ values affect his/her choice of a profession?

III. Main Activity

Do Activity Worksheet No. 6.1: Side A, Side B in your workbook.

Directions:
1. Answer the template for five minutes.
2. Choose 5 classmates or your family members to answer SIDE B.
3. Let your classmates/family members identify values which they think you
possess. Let them write the value that best describes you on the Side B portion
of your paper. If you are letting them answer remotely, you can write their
answers on the template. Remind them to be candid in their perception/s.

Process Questions:
1. How did you find the activity?
2. How do you find your values compared to those written by your groupmates
on your paper?
3. How do you feel about those values attributed by your classmates to you,
which you may be unaware of?
4. How can your values contribute/deter the attainment of your career goals?
Big group sharing (15 minutes)

IV. Lecturette
Values are acquired as a result of value-laden information from the
environment interacting with the inherited characteristics of the individual. Since
cultural background, gender, and socio-economic level influence social
interactions and opportunities, priorities placed on values by people from various

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multicultural grouping will vary and influence the choice of careers and other life
roles.

Values that are influenced by other people’s value systems may not truly
represent the individual’s true values.

We have different kinds of values. These are:

• personal values like self-respect, self-fulfillment, health, privacy,
peace of mind, financial stability, independence
• family values like love, close family ties, family happiness
• spiritual values like establishing a close personal relationship with
God, seeking His will in our life, following His commandments, working
for the good and well-being of the less fortunate
• work values like precision work, power, exercising competence, public
contact, fast pace, change and variety
• career values like personal growth, advancement, prestige and status,
recognition
• social and humanitarian values like service to others, helping people
in need, love of country, moral fulfilment, etc.
• cultural values like debt of gratitude or utang na loob, getting along
with others or pakikisama, authority

Conflicts in values may be intrapersonal, interpersonal, or

organizational. An intrapersonal conflict is a situation wherein one experiences
conflict of values and needs within oneself. (Example: Achievement conflicts
with health; independence conflicts with security.)

People with divergent values but who must live or work together
experience interpersonal conflicts. (Example: Your teacher values
authoritarianism but you value independence.)

Organizational conflict is experienced by a person whose personal value

system clashes with corporate values. (Example: Your class values teamwork
but you value independence, time freedom, or working alone.)

Value conflicts create tension and anxiety which can lead to stress. They
can make people indecisive, a situation that can confuse the ones they live or
work with. If these behaviors become inconsistent, this can result in
interpersonal problems. So, how do people resolve conflicts in values?

To resolve an intrapersonal conflict, one has to be clear about his or her

priorities. Priorities depend on one’s roles, goals, and personal mission.
Interpersonal conflicts can be resolved through communication in which both
parties try to see and understand the situation of the other. If organizational
values conflict with one’s personal values, a choice of either setting aside the
latter or embracing the values of the organization, or leaving the organization

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 and working for one whose values are compatible with his or hers. (Santamaria
2009)

Duane Brown’s Values-based Holistic Approach to Career Development

Values have cognitive, affective, and behavioral components which

facilitate prioritization of values for decision-making. Each person develops a
relatively small number of values that are prioritized in a value system. Values
are prioritized when a person can rank the order of importance assumed by his
or her values in guiding his or her behavior and when he or she can act according
to that priority.

Authentic values are brought out through an insightful dialogue involving

selfreflection. True values, when fully expressed, are capable of leading a person
toward focus, purpose, satisfaction, and happiness. Furthermore, a value is
crystallized once it has a label that is meaningful to the individual. Once values
are crystallized and prioritized, the individual can go on directly to career choice
making (Villar, 2009).

V. Application
Do Activity Worksheet No. 6.2: Rerouting Values in your workbook.

Directions:
1. Go over the values listed in “Side A, Side B.”
2. Identify the values listed in Side A that are not listed in Side B and write
those values under the column entitled “Values least valued.”
3. Make a plan on how you will resolve the conflict in values that may lead to
the attainment of your career goals using Activity Worksheet No. 6.2 in your
workbook.

Sample:

Values
Resolution
least
(Plan on how to resolve conflict in values)
valued

(Examples) From now on, I will avoid being too dependent on

Working alone others and will do individual tasks on my own.

Leadership
I will correct my idea of leadership as being
someone who has the position to decide always for
the group to someone who uses the position in a
way that changes the opinions of others.

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VI. Reflection
Directions: In your journal notebook or on a piece of paper, write your insights
and realizations on the Side A, Side B activity using the following format:

I learned that ………….

I realized that ………….
In order to achieve my career goal, I will.........

VII. Evaluation

Title: Look Ahead!

Directions:
1. Read the scenario below:
Ten years after graduation, you were invited by your high school alma
mater as speaker to the Commencement Exercises of the Senior High
School with the theme “Values Brought Us to Success.” Banking on your
own experience and realizations from the activities you just had, what are
you going to tell the graduates? You are given only five minutes to convey
the inspiring message.

2. Write your speech in your journal.

VIII. Additional Activities

Discuss your career plans with your parents or guardians and elicit
suggestions/opinions on how you can best contribute to the realization of your
plans. Write those suggestions/opinions in your activity notebook.

References

A. Books
Santamaria, Josefina O. 2009. Career Planning Workbook 4th Edition. Makati City Career Systems Inc.
Villar, Imelda Virginia G. 2009. Career Counseling in the Philippines. Aligned Transformation Publications. Makati City.

B. Web Sources
Clarke, Linda. (2012) “Prioritizing Values” Retrieved from http://www.lindaclarke.co.za
Circle of life (n.d.) “Your Personal Care Values” Retrieved from http://www.healthandwellnesscoaching.org/tools/ 02Notes/
Personal- Core-Values.pdf on September 7, 2017