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MODULE 8
Topic: Ready to Take Off!

Introduction:
Congratulations, your learners are now ready to create their Lifelong Learning Plan
and to conduct personal and career development activities that will help them grow and
advance in their life and career!
From the previous module, your learners identified the rights and responsibilities of
the employees and employers. They also learned the importance of work values and work
ethics in becoming successful in one’s chosen career, and evaluated extrinsic and intrinsic
motivation for sustainable work satisfaction.
In this final module, you will guide your learners to conduct their career development
gap analysis and develop their lifelong learning plan. Your learners should be aware that their
lifelong learning plan will determine the kind of citizens they will be in the future. They will
also be asked to write their original career philosophy expressing their love and passion in
their chosen career.
Fasten your seatbelt and get ready for exciting and challenging tasks ahead of you!

Materials:

• Computer/Laptop
• Career Destination Plot
• Lifelong Learning Plan Worksheet
• Letter to My Future Self Worksheet
• Meta strips (blue, red, and yellow)
• Crayons/colored pens/pentel pens
• Masking tapes
• White cartolina/manila paper
• Markers and Pencils
• Grade 11 Goal Setting Activity Sheet
• Module 5 Mission Statement
• Video Clip of Quotations
• 6 copies of Airplane templates for the Reflection Activity

I. Objectives:

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

1. Identify lifelong learning strategies to grow in a chosen career
2. Create a Lifelong Learning Plan

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3. Express love and passion to one’s chosen career

II. Lecturette: (20 Minutes)

Lifelong Learning Strategies

Now that you are very certain about your preferred life and career, you might
wonder, what is next after landing on your dream job or getting your desired
profession or vocation? Learning should never stop once you became employed, you
need to continuously improve and undergo lifelong learning activities that can help
you grow in your chosen profession and reach your ultimate career goal. Lifelong
learning is composed of different strategies or activities that can help you improve
continuously in knowledge, skills and other competencies that are important in your
life and career. Lifelong learning strategies include, but are not limited to the
following programs or activities:

1. Graduate school programs (e.g. Master of Science in Criminal Justice,

Master in Business Administration, and Doctorate Courses)
2. Adult learning courses, distance education programs, and online
webinars (e.g. TESDA Online Courses, UP Open University and
Livelihood Trainings)
3. On-campus training events (e.g. seminars, workshops, special speakers, etc.)
4. Off-campus conferences, conventions, and workshops (e.g. National
Conferences for Educators, Nurse Practitioner Conference, and others)
5. A personal structured reading plan focused on a particular area of
development (e.g. Reading plan for improving leadership skills) 6.
Mentoring or coaching by immediate supervisors/managers
7. An in-house action research project.
8. Social networking (e.g. LinkedIn)

The Lifelong Learning Plan

It is a human nature to desire progress. According to Victor Lipman of Forbes,
the possibility for “career advancement is an especially powerful job motivator.
Writing a plan on how you want to progress in your career will give you a clear path
on how you can grow in your chosen life and career.
For you to grow and become successful in your own chosen life and career
path you need to develop a plan for your advancement. Lifelong Learning Plan is a
written plan that will serve as a road map to your voluntary, ongoing and self-
motivated pursuit of development for either personal or professional growth. You
need to set goals for your improvement, set time frames to accomplish these goals and
identify resources and key persons that can help you achieve these goals.

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The Three Aspects of Your Lifelong Learning Plan
The career aspect will give you a structure on career advancement that will
guide you on the things that you need to do and to go where you want to go in your
career, like your transition from entry-level position to managerial position. In the
social aspect of your LLP, you will be guided on how to establish social linkages in
your career and expand your network. While in the personal aspect, you will identify
key areas for personal growth and will make you prepared for important transitions in
life, like setting a plan to marry and have your own family. This is based on the notion
that your personal life may affect your career and vice-versa.
Process Questions:

1. What are the different lifelong learning activities that you can undergo to
continuously grow in your chosen career and life?
2. Why do you think it is necessary to conduct Career Gap Analysis in creating your
Lifelong Learning Plan?
3. What is Lifelong Learning Plan? How can it help you as a graduating student?

III. Application:
At this time, the learners already have preferred SHS curriculum exit and clear career
roadmap on how they want to progress in their chosen career and life. For this
activity, the learners will create their Lifelong Learning Plan.
Give each learner the copy of Lifelong Learning Plan Worksheet found in
Appendix ___.
MY LIFELONG LEARNING PLAN
Name: ____________________________________ Track and Strand:
___________________________________
Though there is no prescribed procedure in creating a Lifelong Learning Plan,
the following are the suggested steps that one can undertake to come up with an
effective career progression plan:

1. Start by identifying your areas of improvement

After being employed or hired in your desired profession or vocation, you can
still advance in that career and aspire to reach a higher status. The initial step
is to identify areas of improvement in knowledge, skills, competencies, and
values that you need to prioritize in achieving your career goals. This can be
done through a Career Gap Analysis, wherein you will compare your current
situation to your career goals, then describe what you need to accomplish in
order to achieve them.

Below is how you should accomplish your Gap Analysis:

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Life and Career Aspects Goal Current Gap

Situation Description
Career/Position/Designation To become a Grade 12 I need BS and
(Refer to Module 4 Secondary School HUMMS at least
Worksheet) Principal student Master’s
degree
education
while
earning the
work
experience
required

A. Career Aspects

1. Career To possess Zero I need to

Knowledge/Information relevant knowledge acquire
knowledge in in school information
school management about school
management management
2. Career To be a good I am serving I need to have
Skills/Experience leader as Class more
VicePresiden leadership
t experiences
B. Social To establish I have I need to link
Values/Networking connections with savings but I with agencies/
Aspect (Refer to agencies or know it people that can
Module organizations wouldn’t be provide
6 Worksheet) enough for scholarship or
my financial help
schooling for my studies
C. Personal Values Aspect To be more I usually I need to learn
(Refer to Module 6 and organize and cram before how to use time
improve my time management
7 Worksheets) exams and
management skill
tools and
submissions strategies to
and my room organize my
is in total stuff
mess

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2. Set objectives based on your gap analysis

Remember that goals and objectives must be SMART, which means specific,
measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Restate your gap
description into objective as shown below.
Gap Description Objectives
I need to acquire the qualifications To be appointed as Secondary
for Principal I by finishing my BS School Principal I after 12 years.
and Master’s degree education while
earning the work experience
required.

3. Write your plans to bridge the gap.

Now, let us work with the main part of your Lifelong Learning Plan. The
objectives that you set will bridge the gap in your career progression.
However, to ensure the accomplishment of these objectives, you need to
identify lifelong learning activities, key persons and resources involved in
achieving your life and career goals. It is also important to make your
objectives time-bound and set mode of verification as proof of your
objectives’ attainment:

Gap Bridging Plan

Objectives Lifelong Resources Time Mode of

Learning Frame Verification
Persons Materials/
Strategies Financial
(Proof of
Accomplishment)
To be -Traditional Parents, Scholarships 2018- Appointment
appointed as tertiary and relatives, P100,000 2027 Paper as
Secondary graduate teachers, Principal I
Principal I education guidance
after 12 counselor
years

To fill in the lifelong learning activities or strategies column, you can choose
from the list of lifelong learning strategies discussed in this module, the best

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activity that will close the gap between your career goals and your present
realities.
No man is an island, the cliché goes. To achieve your career goals, you need
key persons that can help you accomplish your objectives for personal and
career development. Your family, friends, colleagues, mentors or coaches,
department heads, supervisors, even spiritual or financial advisers can actually
be part of the key persons involved in your career development.
Career advancement is also an investment, you need to allot financial or materials
resources to accomplish doable tasks that will help you achieve your set objectives.

Your LLP should be time bound, setting time frame for each objective to
accomplish will somehow help you monitor your progress and achieve your
goals on time.
Mode of verification is an actual evidence of your outcome after doing a
particular lifelong learning activity. It can be a certificate of participation in a
training or workshop, a coaching or mentoring form, or Transcript of Records
after finishing your Master’s degree.

For sample output, refer to Appendix __.

IV. Reflection:

My Career Philosophy
Note: Before the activity, have 6 copies of the airplane template (refer to Appendix
___). Cut out the airplane figures according to the number of members in every group.
Procedure
Let the class go over their written mission
statement in Module 5. Show the video clip of
compiled quotations on career and success to
set the tone. In case, computer and projector
are not available, the teacher is encouraged to
prepare an improvised instructional material
for this activity or write the quotations on the board.
Ask a volunteer to pick one quote and share their thoughts in a sentence. Lead
the class in writing their own career philosophy.
Ask the learners to group themselves into 6. Cut out parts of airplane
equivalent to the number of members in every group. Distribute the airplane cutouts
and present the sample career philosophy and the blank template to the class. Ask
them to write their career philosophies on the cutout given to each, following the
template guide. Let each group put together all the airplane puzzle cutouts and post

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them on the wall. Tell them that the plane’s cockpit should be facing upward as what
they want their career to be soaring up high.

“Together with others, everyone has a mission to fulfill somewhere,

somehow in this wide world.”

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My Career Philosophy

As a/an ____________________________________, I know this profession

is _______________________.

I have set out on a path in ________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________

I believe that to succeed in _________________ you must have/possess

____________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________.

I believe in the saying that, “_______________________________________

_______________________________________” that is why I will ______________

____________________________________________________________________.

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My Career Philosophy

As a 21st century teacher. I know this profession ischallenging.

I have set out on a path inteaching field knowing I can make a difference
in individuals’ lives.

I believe that to succeed in teaching you must have passion, positive

attitude, strong work ethics and hard work.

I believe in the saying that, “To be successful, the first thing to do is to

fall in love with your work ,” that is why I will never stop falling in love in
teaching.

V. Evaluation:

Write a Letter to Your Future Self

Procedure: After setting a clear path of career progression through their Lifelong
Learning Plan, the learners will write a letter about their future self, five years
from now. Instruct the students to consider the following questions in writing their
letters. They can use their mother tongue language to feel more comfortable in
expressing themselves:

1. What do I like about myself right now? (Ano ano ang mga katangiang meron ako
na gusto ko?)
2. What are the things that I need to improve in my life right now? (Ano ang mga
katangiang kailangan ko pang paunlarin?)
3. What are the things that I should have accomplished after five years? (Ano anong
mga layunin ang dapat na nakamit ko na limang taon mula ngayon?)
4. What are the goals and dreams that I want to achieve in my career and life? (Ano
ano ang aking mga pangarap at layunin sa aking karera at buhay?)
5. Why am I passionate about my chosen career and life? (Bakit lubos kong nais ang
aking napiling karera?)

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Example:

Sulat Para sa Aking Sarili sa Hinaharap

Mahal kong Gio ,

Gusto kita kasi ikaw ay masikap sa iyong pag -aaral. Hinahangaan ka ng

iyong mga kamag -aral at guro, dahil sa iyong husay sa pakikipagtalastasan.
Gayunman, kung may isang bagay na dapat mo pang paunlarin, ito ay ang
iyong pag -sasaayos ng mga gawain at time management . Sana, ngayon ay isa ka
ng Master Teacher sa isang pampublikong paaralan , na gumagabay sa mga
mag-aaral ng ika-21 siglo gamit ang mga makabago at epektibong pamamaraan
ng pagtuturo. Alam ko na mahal mo ang propesyong ito, dahil naniniwala ka
na mahalaga ang gampanin ng guro sa paghubog sa mga kabataan , upang sila
ay magkaroon ng magandang kinabukasan.

Sumasaiyo,

G io Alonzo
12-HUMSS -A

References:

• Department of Education and Science. Learning for Life: Paper on Adult

Education. Dublin: Stationery Office. 2000 [cited 10 August 2017]. Available
from <http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED471201.pdf>.
• Garver, Louise. How to Develop a Personal/Professional Development Plan
(PDP) [Online]. 2017 [cited 10 August 2017]. Available from: <
https://careerdirectionsllc.com/develop-management-development-plan/>.
• Lipman, Victor. The Motivational Value of Clear Career Paths [Online]. 2013
[cited 10 August 2017]. Available from:
<https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/10/19/the-
motivationalvalue-of-clear-career-paths/#271a93c247f3>.
• Waddle, Greg. A Guide for Writing a Professional Development Plan. Mid-
South Christian College. April (2009): 1-5.

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