HOMEROOM
GUIDANCE
MODULE 7: I Decide, I
Learn
Learning Objectives
At the end of the session, you are expected to be able to:
1. identify steps in making sound decisions;
2. construct your own appropriate steps to make a sound decision;
3. analyze possible outcome in making decision for common good; and
4. value the importance of being responsible in making personal decisions.
Period: Week 3-5
Suggested Total Time Allotment: 180 minutes
Materials Needed: Notebook, Pencil/Ballpen, Bond papers/ piece of paper
Every day, we make hundreds
of choices. Even if we ourselves
don't make such big decisions,
we need to understand how they
are made. Let us know the
different factors that influences
Have you ever made a decision?
our decision and the role of the
different significant persons in
Do you think about your our life in identifying the
decisions? are they right? different steps in decision-
making.
Let’s Try This
Time allotment: 25 minutes
Think what kind of decision-maker you are. Do you decide based on
your feelings? Or you take enough time to think about it first? Are you
someone who asks opinions of others like your parents, siblings, friends,
and trusted adults? Think of two to three personal experiences that
support your thought.
After ten minutes, face the mirror and tell what kind of decision-
maker you are.
Tell why you should maintain or change your ways of deciding
Processing Questions
1. How do you feel about your answer? Why?
2. Based on your answers in the activity, how do you make
decisions?
3. Why do you need to be aware on how you make decisions?
Will it help you in your future situations?
Let’s Explore This
Suggested Time allotment: 30 minutes
Help Betty
Betty is having a hard time thinking how she can still
continue her studies now that their family is facing a health
crisis. Her mother tested positive for Covid-19 and has a
diabetes while her father could not even work since his
employer retrenched him. She cannot focus anymore in her
lessons as she’s worried about their situation.
Help Betty by identifying her problem and by providing as many
possible helpful solutions as you can.
Processing Questions
1. How do you rank your suggested solutions? Why?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of your top
suggested solution?
3. Is it something worth pursuing? Why?
Keep in Mind
Suggested Time Allotment: 20 Minutes
Everyday, you use your decision-making
skills on the things you are about to do or
choose. Making decisions is making choices or
not choosing at all. Deciding on your own may
be very difficult at your age. Children like you
need guidance from parents, guardians, or older
siblings in making decisions.
People have experienced making good and
bad decisions and it is helpful to learn from it
and move on.
Keep in Mind
Factors That Influence The Decision-making
Process Of Adolescence,
a. peer
b. environment
c. family
d. knowledge and skills to decide
e. beliefs
f. culture
In some studies, the psychological and social factors
most of the time have great effect on the decisions of
adolescents like you
Keep in Mind
There are five basic steps in making a decision.
1. Define the problem.
2. Gather information about the issue or problem.
3. Know your options.
4. Weigh the pros and cons of each option.
5. Take the courage to decide and act on it.
Keep in Mind
If the issue or problem is not solved, go back to your step
number 1 and follow the other steps again until you succeed.
Always remember that you are a work in progress. If you
fail, the only way up is to stand and try again. Take your
failures as opportunities to become better. As American
inventor Thomas Edison said, “I have not failed. I just found
10,000 ways that won’t work.”
You Can Do It!
Suggested Time allotment: 45 minutes
Think of a past or present
problem that you are 1. Define the problem.
comfortable to share with 2. Gather information about
your Homeroom Guidance the issue or problem.
teacher. Try to apply the five 3. Know your options.
basic steps in making a 4. Weigh the pros and cons
decision. Do this on a piece of of each option.
paper. 5. Take the courage to
decide.
What I Have Learned
Suggested Time allotment: 35 minutes
Based on the previous activity, make a poster of the desired
outcome of your decision. Show also in the poster how you
would feel if you would attain it.
Your Thoughts and Feelings
Suggested Time Allotment: 25 minutes
Dear Self
Make a letter to yourself about
your decisions in the past months.
Include how you feel about it and the
things that you would try to change
to improve your decision-making
skills. Do this on a sheet of paper.
