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LEARNING MODULE IN HOMEROOM GUIDANCE
QUARTER 1 MODULE 4
What I Need to Know
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.
LESSON 4: ME AND MY DECISIONS
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.
What I know
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.
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 RIGHT Decision This is ME 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?
2. Did you have the same decision-making process for both situations? Explain an example for each.
3. If you are to assess whatever decisions you made in the past 2 months, where do you categorize them and why?
What’s In
Let’s Explore This
Suggested Time Allotment: 10 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. I respect others
when…
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?
Processing Questions:
1. What insights did you get from both the experiences of making a right and a wrong decision?
2. What changes did both decisions make in your life?
3. If given a chance, would you still do the same decisions? Why or why not?
What is it
Keep in Mind
Suggested Time Allotment: 10 Minutes
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Considering the many choices that we face each day, it is imperative to know relevant information on how to
better handle decision-making. Although we differ in handling decision, we learn better by tracing back how others dealt
with it and how they managed to handle it.
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:
1. 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.
What’s more
What I Have Learned
Suggested Time Allotment: 10 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.
What can I do
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.
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…
It is OK to commit a wrong decision as long as…
From now on, I will own my decision by…
What I can show?
Suggested Time Allotment: 2 Minutes
Which category in 21st Century skills do you think the core of our topic falls in? (Communication, collaboration, creativity,
critical thinking, productivity, leadership and technology literacy). Explain why.
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