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Homeroom Guidance
Quarter 2 – Module 11:
Weighing Options, Seeking
Opinions
Homeroom Guidance Self-learning Module – Grade 9
Quarter 2 Module 11: Weighing Options, Seeking Opinions
2021 Edition

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Department of Education. Homeroom Guidance Grade 9 Self-learning Module 11:

Weighing Options, Seeking Opinions Manila: Department of Education Central
Office, 2021.

Published by the Department of Education

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 Homeroom Guidance Grade 9
Quarter 2 – Module 11:
DARE: Decisions as Realistic Endeavors

Gabay sa Magulang/Tagapag-alaga

Isinulat ang modyul na ito upang higit na matutunan ng

mag-aaral ang mapanuring paggawa ng mga desisyon sa tahanan,
paaralan at komunidad. Ibabahagi ang iba’t ibang paraan ng
paggawa ng desisyon at magbibigay din ng mga sitwasyon sa
mag-aaral upang kanyang higit na magamit ang kanyang mga
natutunan. Higit sa lahat,inaasahan na magkakaroon ng ibayong
responsibilidad at pananagutan sa kanyang sarili, sa kapwa at sa
komunidad ang kabataan na marunong gumawa ng mga
matatalinong desisyon. 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.
Maaaring may mga pagkakataon na hihingiin ng mag-aaral
ang inyong patnubay sa pagsunod sa mga tagubilin, pagsagot sa
mga tanong sa bawat bahagi ng mga gawain at maging sa
pagkakaroon ng mga kakailanganing materyales base sa
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katangian, kakayahan, damdamin at pananaw. Tiyakin na
sasagutin niya ang bawat bahagi ng modyul nang tapat.

Kinakailangan din ang long folder na magsisilbing portfolio

ng mag-aaral sa Homeroom Guidance. Dito, isisilid lahat ng
gawaing natapos sa bawat bahagi ng modyul.Tiyaking maipapasa
ito sa petsa at oras na itinakda ng kanyang gurong-tagapayo.

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Introductory Message

For the learner:

This module is designed to help you know more about self-discipline and how
it helps you to develop a positive self-concept. There are activities that require a
deeper look at yourself and will make you reflect on self-discipline practices in your
decisions and actions.

This self-learning module has six interactive tasks, which are as follows:

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;

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!

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 MODULE
WEIGHING OPTIONS, SEEKING
11 OPINIONS

Learning Objectives
At the end of this module, you are expected to:
1. evaluate the way you make solutions;
2. illustrate the role of others’ opinion in helping you with decision-making ;
and
3. determine the consequences of using your skills and
potential solutions to you and others.

Period: Week 4 of 2nd Quarter

Suggested Total Time Allotment: 60 Minutes

Materials Needed:

• Clean sheets of paper/bond paper

• Pen/pencil

Introduction

As a learner, you cannot avoid problems that need solutions. Though you have
the capacity to deal with it on your own, this module will try to make you see how helpful
if you seek the opinion of your parents/guardians and other people around you. You
will also get to appreciate the consequences of your decision to problems as it affects
you and others.
Weighing your options and seeking other’s opinions are highly significant life
skills that you as a learner should continuously practice especially now that we are in
pandemic.
Let’s go and try to sail our ship with vigor and confidence in facing the small
and big waves in life!

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 Let’s Try This
Suggested Time Allotment: 10 minutes

When do you know that a person is deciding for the common good? With the use of
sample graphic organizer below, list down your answers. Write as many as you can. Answer
the processing questions after. Do this on a sheet of paper.

deciding
for the
common
good

Processing Questions:

1. What did you use as basis of your answers?

2. Do your answers resonate with you when making decisions? How?
3. How do you know that you are deciding for the common good?

Let’s Explore This

Suggested Time Allotment: 15 minutes
I Heart You
1. You may ask help from your household members to join the
activity.
2. The household members will form a small circle to talk about a
situation that you need to decide on.
3. You may read and present the situation to them.

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Imagine that you are a group of doctors stationed in an inaccessible area with
limited materials to be used in treating patients. You were given a mission to
operate on a patient needing a heart transplant. Unfortunately, there is only
one donor for the operation but there are six patients waiting for the
operation.

Patients in the list:

1. 40-year old male; a successful doctor with no children
2. 25-year old female; a blind famous pianist
3. 45-year old male; teacher with 2 children
4. 18-year old female; unmarried and 6 months pregnant
5. 35-year old male; a priest
6. 16-year old female; high school dropout; supports/cares for a brother
who is disabled

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The household members will analyze the alternative solutions to come up with a decision.
Each member should listen to each sharing. Then, you will have to evaluate the consequences
of the alternative solution by determining its pros and cons. Determine how it may affect you
and the team.
Each member should give his/her views and options about the situation. Then discuss until
the group comes up with a decision.

Discussion Guide:
1. What are your options? List them down.
2. What are your alternative solutions? Does everybody agree with the alternative
solutions?
3. What are the consequences of your alternative solutions?
4. Write your decision as a group on a sheet of paper.

Processing Questions:
Write your answers on a sheet of paper to the questions below.
1. Did you have difficulty in coming up with a decision?
2. Did you have alternative options? What are these?
3. Did your household members have different options? How did you deal with it?
4. Does it help to analyze your alternatives and the consequences of your
decisions?

Keep in Mind

Suggested Time Allotment: 10 minutes

You have made decisions in the past and will be making still in the coming
days, weeks or months. To be better on this, you may want to look back and reflect
how you were doing it and be mindful on the learnings that those experiences try to
mold in you.

Did you have a moment of evaluating your decisions in the past? If so, how did
you do it? Here are some pointers for you to make sense out of your past
decisions:

1. Did you get the rightful results? Did it really solve your problem?
If you answered “yes” to these questions, that’s good. If “no”, why did you say so? Did
your solution create more problems or complications? If that’s the case, then, you may
take it as a learning experience. Maybe in your next decisions, you can check if your
option will really answer the problem or it will create more. If it does, then, it certainly
is not the right solution. You could consider other options next time and eliminate the
choice that brought you more problems.

2. What were the consequences when you made that decision?

What took place after your decision? Did it improve the situation? Did you feel good
about it? Decision-making comes with responsibility. It is very ideal for any decision to

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 be favorable for everyone. However, there are times that you need to calculate the risk
of your choice. Hence, it has to be a well-calculated one. You are responsible for any
decisions that you make. Good or bad, you have to own it. Be wiser with it.

3. Did it contribute to your personal growth in any areas of life (social relationship,
academic performance, career pathing, health, spiritual, etc.)
With your past decisions, can you identify any significant changes in your life in any
aspect of it? For instance, when you decided to continue your studies during this
pandemic, did it make a step nearer to your dream of finishing basic education? When
you decided to stay at home instead of going out with your friends, did it make any
difference to your safety? Try to appreciate whatever gains or personal development
you have for any choice that you have. It is a good point of reference for your
succeeding decision-making in life.

4. Did it consider the common good?

In your past decisions, did it promote the welfare of everyone around you or there are
regrets attached to it? There might be times when you are clouded by your personal
biases or perceptions. However, the common good would always be a good
consideration when weighing your options. At times, there is a need to analyze what
is good for you and for everyone. Always try to check what would be good and gain for
everyone. Your maturity and experiences aid you to always prioritize the common
good.

5. How would that make you as a person?

At the end of day, your decisions reflect the kind of person you are. However, it does
not define your future self. Our choice reveals what we think is right at that moment
though it may be unpopular for others. There is always a point of realization how our
decisions change the way we see and experience life. Don’t be discouraged if you
committed wrong decisions before. Who else did not? You could always consult the
experienced people and ask for guidance if you have to.

Nobody has the monopoly of knowledge in the world. Even experts consult with
their colleagues or other professionals in order to see the other perspectives on certain
things. There are companies who get the most brilliant advisers or consultants just to
ensure that their decisions most especially on sensitive matters are well-thought off. The
act of seeking the opinion of your respected and trusted people is no different at all. It is
part of being responsible and sound decision maker.

So, what are the other things that you can gain from seeking others’ opinion?

1. More confidence in facing problems because you know that people support you and
they have your back;
2. You are able to think properly for possible solutions to any challenges believing that
you have the capacity to do it well;
3. In seeking and learning from people’s opinions, it will help you realize that more heads
are better than one, likewise, being alone in an island is truly difficult but if you have
others, you have better chances to survive and thrive in life. Any difficult situation that
is upon us becomes less painful and uncomplicated if we have others who will walk
with us through it. We are not alone in our struggles. We only need to reach out and
ask for help.

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 4. When you share your thoughts, you lessen the burden that you carry. Seeking others
might help unload the stress and anxiety that you might be feeling;
5. Strengthen harmonious relationship with your significant others and lead you to
become people-oriented;
6. When you choose to seek help from others, you start to create a pattern where you
can also lend a hand when the opportunity comes for others will ask your help and
guidance.
7. You will develop to become a positive, well-integrated person.

You Can Do It
Suggested Time Allotment: 10 minutes
Identify a decision that you made in the past that you are comfortable to share with
your teacher. Try to evaluate it using the pointers given in the previous part. Follow the given
flow below. Do this on a sheet of paper.

Problem:

Decision:

1. Did you get the rightful results?

2. What were the consequences when you made that decision?
3. Did it contribute to your personal growth in any areas of life (social relationship, academic
performance, career pathing, health, spiritual, etc.)
4. Did it consider the common good?
5. How would that make you as a person?

What I have learned

Suggested Time Allotment: 10 minutes
On Second Thought
Identify alternative solutions and its consequences if you were in the situation below.
Write your answers on a clean sheet of paper.

Situation:
You have a requirement to finish and as instructed in your self-learning module,
you are encouraged to use alternative or recycled materials. However, you think that
you might need some money to do the activity. When you asked your parents about it,
they said they do not have enough money to buy the requirement. One day, while your
sibling was in the bathroom, you went back to your room to get your towel. Then you
saw money on the floor. You know that it might be owned by one of your family
members. You suddenly remembered that you needed money for your project.

1. What will be your alternative solutions?

2. What will be its positive and negative consequences?
3. How do you consider honesty despite your current situation?

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 Share your Thoughts & Feelings
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 minutes
Think about the quote below and write down your short reflection about it on a
clean sheet of paper.

“An open mind is coupled with an open heart.”

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