WORK

IMMERSION
Quarter 3, Week 1
 WORK IMMERSION
Quarter 3, Week 1
OBJECTIVES: Understand work immersion by discussing the expected behavior and work immersion
rules and regulations.

DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK IMMERSION PROGRAM

The Work Immersion Program is one of the course requirements for graduation. A SHS student has
to undergo work immersion in a business organization or establishment with work requirements
related to the specialization. Through work immersion, the students are exposed to and are
familiarized with the work-related environment related to their field of specialization. Specifically, the
students are able to:

1. Appreciate the importance and application of the principles and theories learned in school;
2. Enhance their technical knowledge and skills;
3. Enrich their skills in communications and human relations;
4. Develop good work habits, attitudes, appreciation and respect for work.

Legal Basis:
With the passage of the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013 or Republic Act 10533, the DepEd was
tasked to implement the K to 12 Program, essentially adding two (2) years of specialization within the
Basic Educational System;

The DepEd designed the implementation of RA 10533 within the framework of increased community
involvement in the learner’s experience;

Grading System:
Written Works (30%)
Performance Tasks (70%)

Work Immersion
-this refers to the subject of the SHS Curriculum which involved Hands-on Training and Experiences
on Work Simulation in which Learners can apply their Competencies and Acquired Knowledge
relevant to their chosen Track/Strand.

1. EXPECTED BEHAVIOR
a. Work Ethics
Work Ethic is a set of values based on the ideals of discipline and hardwork.

Some SHS students are naturally more hardworking than others, but that doesn’t mean a
strong work ethics can’t be taught. By applying values education, teamwork, cooperation, and
finishing tasks with proper time management and quality required in their specialization, SHS
students are eventually abreast with proper work attitude and keen personal decision ready for their
work immersion.

The following good habits helps create a good work ethic that will impress employers:
▪ Focus and Persistence
✓ Focus on ones tasks as long as necessary allows one to finish tasks more efficiently
while avoiding distractions.
✓ Building persistence will allow you to basically train yourself to work for longer
periods of time while also working harder
- It is important though, to balance persistence with adequate rest to reduce
the risk of burnout.
▪ Finish Tasks in a Timely and Efficient Manner
✓ Do not procrastinate and instead immediately tackle work tasks.
 ✓ Aside from getting to task right away, a good work ethics involves doing things
properly.

▪ Always be Punctual
✓ Set the clock ahead a few minutes or planning to leave the house extra early can
help. Showing up late for work can signal to employers that you are not devoted to
your job.

▪ Be Professional
✓ This includes wearing the required work attire, demeanor, attitude, and values. One
should practice being cordial and positive and should always refrain from partaking
in gossips. Be respectful of others and work to develop a reputation of being an
honest, hard worker.

▪ Create a Work Life Balance

✓ Working too much can cause you to become overwhelmed and start messing up
work. Getting enough sleep and taking time need to recharge and relax is very
important.
✓ If you are motivated, it is easy to develop a strong work ethic that will be
appreciated by employers and coworkers.

b. Workplace rights and responsibility

We all have the right to a safe workplace. And staying safe on the job is everyone's responsibility. ...
The right to participate in the workplace safety by reporting unsafe or unhealthy work conditions, or
joining your joint occupational health and safety committee.
Responsibilities of Student:
✓ Understand the conditions of work immersion in the workplace. This includes your working
hours, entitlement to breaks, and arrangement for work days adjustments.
✓ Work in a way that is not harmful to the health and safety of yourself and others.
✓ Know what to do if you think your supervisor is not meeting their responsibilities.

The workplace rights and responsibilities of the partner industry or local government unit will be
enumerated in the work immersion rules and regulations.

c. Confidentiality in the Workplace

In some instances, confidentiality refers to not discussing internal goings-on with co-workers.
In other instances, it refers to not sharing trade secrets and other company information with
competitors, the press or anyone outside of your company. More of this is discussed in the non-
disclosure provision in the work immersion rules and regulations.

d. Effective Conflict Resolution and Team work

Conflict resolution is a way for two or more parties to find a peaceful solution to a disagreement
among them. The disagreement may be personal, financial, political, or emotional. When a dispute
arises, often the best course of action is negotiation to resolve the disagreement.

Tips for Effective Conflict Resolution and Teamwork Skills

▪ Listen, then Speak out
a. Simply listen to all parties involved to completely understand the nature of conflict, then
start troubleshooting solutions.
▪ Gather the Group
a. Arrange a meeting with all involved parties to discuss the issue. Having a group
meeting may also expedite a resolution that will satisfy everyone.
▪ Be Impartial
a. Don’t take sides.
b. If you are partial towards one person, try to access the situation from all sides to come
up with a fair and reasonable solution.
▪ Do not Postpone Conflict Resolution.
a. Address the conflict immediately. Otherwise, the situation could escalate and affect
performance.
 ▪ Promote Teamwork
a. Take note that successful results of doing tasks requires teamwork to complete.
▪ Broadcast Praise
a. The power of encouragement and motivation can be multiplied when it is spread to
recognize those who are modeling the teamwork and cooperation that is desired within
any conflict.

How to Prevent Conflict

▪ Be open. Issues should be expressed properly (in the correct venue) and dealt immediately.
Do not allow it to accumulate and dwell upon.
▪ Maintain clear communication. Articulate thoughts clearly, question and clarify views.
▪ Encourage different points of view and evaluate each fairly without any personal
bias.
▪ Avoid looking for someone to blame. If you realized that you caused the problem, own it
and propose a solution.
▪ Demonstrate respect for co-worker. Listen, understand, and accept where they are
coming from.
▪ Keep Workplace Issue within the Workplace.

2. WORK IMMERSION RULES AND REGULATIONS

Composed of directives and orders given to prospective workers by the Work Release Staff
and or Workplace providers. It consists of instructions, rules regulations and procedures governing
the agreed scope of work between the contracting Head of School/Institution and the Immersion
Supervisor from the Partnering Work Immersion Entity.

The following are the rules and regulations in area of responsibility, liability, non-disclosure provision,
ownership of output and intellectual property, and other provisions that were stipulated in the
memorandum of agreement of the school, and the industry partners and Local Government Unit.
The COMPANY that will be mentioned below represents the industry partner or Local Government
Unit.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Both the SCHOOL and the COMPANY shall:

1. Create a joint working group that will prepare the action plan to operationalize the partnership.
2. Form a joint steering committee to monitor the progress of the partnership and to make sure that
the provisions of this Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) are met.
3. Adhere to all laws, memoranda and circulars pertaining to child protection as provided for the
Guidelines for Work Immersion.

Responsibilities of the School

1. Identify and indicate the SHS track/s, strand/s, and/or specialization/s which will be the subject of
the partnership.
2. Develop the students’ Work Immersion module specifying goals and objectives, desired outcomes
of the program and how these outcomes will be achieved, also noting the specific knowledge, skills,
attitudes and competencies that the student should acquire after completing the program.
3. Develop a Work Immersion Daily Schedule of Activities that will be followed by the students during
the whole duration of the Work Immersion Program.
4. Formulate local school work immersion policies and guidelines on selection, placement, monitoring,
and assessment of students (immersion participants), in order to ensure that each student is
assigned to an immersion partner matched to his/her desired track, qualifications and aptitude.
5. Make the needed adjustments to contextualize the SHS subjects based on inputs coming from the
COMPANY.
6. Designate a person who will be in-charge of coordinating with the COMPANY and supervising the
activities of the students for the duration of the Work Immersion Program.
 7. Provide insurance coverage for learners during the work immersion program.
8. Continue to exercise its Special Parental Authority under the Family Code over the Senior High
School student under immersion in the premises of the partner.
9. Monitor each student’s progress throughout the duration of the entire work immersion program so
as to make sure that the tasks assigned to each student are meaningful, challenging, and applicable
to his/her particular programs and are able to maximize the quality of the learning experience.
10. Provide the COMPANY an evaluation tool for the students’ immersion performance.
11. Issue a final grade to the student upon completion of the requirements within a prescribed period.
12. Ensure that the student will adhere to the non-disclosure policies of the COMPANY as agreed to
by the School.
13. Provide signed Consent forms from the parents as applicable.
14. Provide the COMPANY a Certificate of Participation in the SHS program for whatever purpose it
may serve.
15. Execute a deed of acceptance as a way of recognizing and acknowledging the donation/s received
from the COMPANY.
16. Review, facilitate and endorse the application of the COMPANY to avail of the tax
incentives/exemption as specified in the R.A. 8525 otherwise known as The Adopt-A-School Act
of 1998.

Responsibilities of the Company

1. Assign a competent Immersion Coordinator from the COMPANY to liaise with the School and
supervise the students without prejudice to the special parental authority of the school, its
administrators and teachers for the duration of the work immersion program so as to ensure
efficient implementation of all stages of the program.
2. Provide inputs into the curriculum through the discussions or workshops that DepEd will organize.
3. Lend its expertise by making available its resident resource persons to provide training to the
students.
4. Allow the students to be deployed to the different sections/departments/project sites of the
COMPANY based on the Work Immersion Daily Schedule of Activities.
5. Agree to the required number of hours of the immersion program set under the DepEd SHS
curriculum.
6. Provide students with an orientation about the COMPANY, its line of business, and the work its
employees do, and expose them to the various stakeholders of the community in which the
COMPANY operates for the students to get a holistic understanding of its business.
7. Similarly ensure that students undergo training related to their course, and provide the students
with work or activities that are varied and applicable to their field of study as submitted by the
school.
8. Make its workplace and facilities available to students, and shall similarly take all necessary action
to ensure the safety of students within their areas of operation at all times, which shall include,
but shall not be limited to, the provision for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE’s), if applicable.
Ensure that the students will not be exposed to hazardous materials and working environment
throughout the duration of the immersion.
9. Evaluate students’ performance in the immersion venue by accomplishing provided evaluation tool.
10. Issue a Certificate of Completion to the student trainees upon satisfactory compliance with all
requirements of the program.
11. Execute a deed of donation in favor of DepEd for the completed Work Immersion Partnership.
12. Submit to the Adopt-A-School Program Secretariat all pertinent documents in support of the
amount specified/claimed for the tax exemption application of the COMPANY.

LIABILITY

The school, its administrator and teachers exercising authority and supervision over the Senior
High School Student undergoing immersion in the premises of the partner may be held accountable for
the student’s acts.

Each party shall answer for losses and damages arising from any accident, act, or omission
directly attributable to its fault or negligence, which may cause death or bodily injury to any persons,
or loss or damage to property, by or on account of the performance of the respective obligations by
the parties pursuant to this Agreement. Such responsibility shall continue to remain that of the
responsible party’s even after the termination of this agreement, if such losses and damages were
incurred during the effectivity of this agreement.

DepEd shall not be liable for opportunity losses of the Company during the duration and after
the termination of this agreement.

NON-DISCLOSURE PROVISION
It is expressly understood by DepEd and the students that all information on technology,
manufacturing process, process standards, quality assurance methodologies, quality standards,
production capabilities, raw material purchasing, marketing, finance, and all other related documents,
manuals, operational and technical matters that the Company shall make available to them shall be
used for the sole purpose of student training. All of these matters are classified as confidential in nature
and proprietary to the Company and thereby each student hereby undertakes to prevent transfer of
such information by any of its members to any party outside of the Company.

OWNERSHIP OF OUTPUT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Intellectual properties developed by the student as part of his or her regular Work Immersion
duties in the Company and their corresponding copyrights and/or patents shall belong to the COMPANY.
Intellectual properties developed by the student outside of his or her regular Work Immersion
duties in the COMPANY and their copyrights and/or patents shall belong to the student, even if the
student used the time, facilities, materials of the COMPANY, unless otherwise stipulated in a separate
agreement between the student and his or her parent or guardian and the COMPANY.

OTHER PROVISIONS
It is expressly understood by the PARTIES that the Company is not obliged to pay wage or salary
since there is no employer-employee relationship that exists. However, the Company is not precluded
from providing the student with any monetary or financial assistance in the form of transportation fee,
food allowance, etc.
In determining the existence of an employer-employee relationship, the following elements are
considered: (1) the power to hire; (2) the payment of wages; (3) the power to dismiss, and (4) the
power to control the employee’s conduct, with the control test generally assuming primacy in the overall
consideration.
No employer-employee relationship exists between the student and the partner in work
immersion if all the following criteria are met:
1. The training, even though it includes actual operation of the employer’s facilities, is similar to
training provided in an educational program;
2. The training is for the benefit of the student;
3. The student does not displace regular employees, and works under close supervision;
4. The students are not entitled to a job at the conclusion of the training period and are free to take
jobs elsewhere in the same field;
5. Any clinical training is performed under the supervision and direction of people who are
knowledgeable and experienced in the activity;
6. The training is general, and qualifies the student to work in any similar business. It is not designed
specifically for a job with the employer that offers the program;
7. The screening process for the immersion program is not the same as for employment, and does
not appear to be for that purpose. The screening only uses criteria relevant for admission to an
independent educational program; and
8. Advertisements, posting, or solicitations for the program clearly discuss education or training, rather
than employment, although employers may indicate that qualified graduates may be considered
for employment.

Prepared by: Mrs. Jeanette E. Ofamen, MEd

 WORK IMMERSION OUTPUT
Quarter 3, Week 1
OBJECTIVES: Understand work immersion by discussing the expected behavior and work
immersion rules and regulations.

Week 1 Output:
Write 5 things that you would do in a workplace and 5 things that you should not do in a
workplace. Complete the worksheet below. Cut this page to be submitted to your immersion
teacher.

NAME: _____________________________________ Grade & Section: ______________

Do:
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Don’t
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