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Homeroom Guidance
Quarter 2 – Module 4:
My Responsible Decisions
Homeroom Guidance – Grade 6
Quarter 2 – Module 4: My Responsible Decisions
First Edition, 2021

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Department of Education. Homeroom Guidance Grade 6 Self-learning Module 4:

My Responsible Decisions. Manila: Department of Education Central Office,
2021.

Published by the Department of Education

Secretary: Leonor Magtolis Briones
Undersecretary: Diosdado M. San Antonio
Assistant Secretary: Alma Ruby C. Torio

Development Team of the Module

Writers: Kathleen D. Omoso and Dulce Maria Rosario S. de Guzman

Grade Level Coordinator: Elenita B. Bagongon
Editors: Mark Anthony V. Bercando, Jona Kristen M. Valdez, Melynda T. Andres
Series Illustrators: George P. Gamboa, Jeremy P. Daos, Raymart Q. Orianza
Lito Y. Bayani, Cathyrine B. Homecillo
Layout Artist: Lucky Ann L. de Leon
Management Team:
- Bureau of Curriculum Development: Jocelyn DR. Andaya, Director IV, Ma. Isabel
Victorino, CSDD Chief, Mark Anthony Bercando, Supervising EPS, Jona Kristen
Valdez, Senior EPS, Melynda Andres, Senior EPS
- Bureau of Learning Resources

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 Homeroom Guidance Grade 6
Quarter 2 – Module 4:
My Responsible Decisions

Gabay sa Magulang/ Tagapag-alaga

Hinihiling ang inyong paggabay upang matagumpay na

maisakatuparan ng mag-aaral ang mga tagubilin sa
pagsasagawa ng mga gawain.
• Gawain 1: Tutukoy ng sariling batas ang mag-aaral.

• Gawain 2: Guguhit ang mag-aaral ng Decision-Making Tree,

kaugnay nito ang pagbuo ng mahalagang desisyon sa mga
pagsubok bunga ng Covid-19. Gayundin ang pagsasaalang-
alang ng gabay na tanong upang makatugon sa Decision Tree
Chart. Isusulat ng mag-aaral ang mga maaaring paraan upang
makabuo ng maayos na desisyon at solusyon.

• Gawain 3: Maipaliliwanag ng mag-aaral ang mga pamamaraan

at salik ng pagdedesisyon. Gayundin ang mga nararapat gawin
sa pagbuo ng desisyon.

• Gawain 4: Kokopyahin ng mag-aaral ang activity sheet at

isusulat ang desisyon sa mga pangyayaring nakasaad.

• Gawain 5: Susulat siya ng maikling sanaysay tungkol sa

kahalagahan ng pagbuo ng desisyon.

• Gawain 6: Guguhit siya ng mga bagay na maikakabit niya sa

pagdedesisyon nang maayos.

Tiyaking magagawa niya ito nang tapat at maipapasa sa

petsa at oras na itinakda ng kaniyang gurong-tagapayo.

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Introductory Message
For the learner:
This module is designed to help in your academic-related needs; concerns
affecting your individuality (self), your relationship with others and interaction in the
community; and, in discovering your interests, talents and skills that will help you
explore future career options and opportunities.

This has six interactive activities for you to follow, namely:

Let’s Try This – which will help you 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; and

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
MY RESPONSIBLE DECISIONS
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Learning Objectives

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

1. identify the procedures or steps in decision-making;
2. identify the factors that affect decision-making;
3. explain the importance of procedures in decision making;
4. exercise personal experiences in decision-making; and
5. appreciate effective personal decision-making.

Period: Weeks 1 to 3 of 2nd Quarter

Suggested Total Time Allotment: 180 minutes
Materials needed: piece of paper, pencil, coloring materials

Introduction
This module is designed to help you make better decisions in your daily
school activities. It also helps develop skills that contribute to the achievement of your
goals. It provides proper procedure toward responsible decision-making and helps you
evaluate experiences toward achieving the common good.
The primary school years bring about many challenges, especially between you
and your parents. This is because parents tend to focus on safety and academic and
personal growth, while you may often care more about how you are perceived by your
peers. Practicing social skills can help you better understand the details of social
interactions and provide you with the confidence to apply them.

Let’s Try This

Suggested Total Time Allotment: 25 minutes
If you are going to have the power to create a law in the country, what would it be, and
why? Answer it by making a poster using a short bond paper and coloring materials.
At the back of the paper, write your answers to the processing questions.

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 Processing Questions:
1. What did you consider in making the law?
2. What would happen in this country if the law will be implemented?
3. Were you able to weigh the pros and cons of the law? Please explain.

Let’s Explore This

Suggested Time Allotment: 35 minutes

Decision-Making Tree
1. On a separate sheet of paper, draw a tree just like the one presented here.

#5- Can’t meet

#6+ I will be learning
my teacher face
to face my lessons from
school with my
family at home.
#7- Can’t
#4+ I will be
meet my
learning more in
classmates
my own pace of
time
face to
face

#2 Enroll in #3 Wait for the

Modular COVID-19
School and vaccine to be
safe
finish
Grade 6

Follow the
protocol for
safety in our
family Be thankful and
happy of what I
Enroll in Modular have right now
School and finish
Grade 6

#1 COVID-19 is everywhere

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 1 What is the problem?
2 & 3 What are the choices you have?
4 & 6 What are the positive outcomes (consequences) of your
choices?
5 & 7 What are the negative consequences of your choices?

2. Decide on one common problem that you have encountered as a learner. The
problem might be in school, at home or in the community.
3. Fill in the boxes to be able to come up with a solution.
4. Write it down on the boxes of the chart following the assigned numbers.
5. In this activity, you will try to make a decision and come up with the best
solution to solve the problem using the Decision-Making Tree Chart.
6. After narrowing down your choices, give at least 3 best solutions for the
problem. Write these down on three separate circles in the trunk of the
tree.
7. An example has been provided as your guide.
8. Answer the Processing Questions after.

Processing Questions:

1. What do you notice with your answers?

2. How is the tree chart helpful to you?
3. Why is it important to understand well any decision that you make?

Keep in Mind

Suggested Time Allotment: 30 minutes

Steps in Decision-Making

You make decisions every day. However, many of the decisions you see and
experience may not have been carefully thought of. You need to understand that the
use of this skill will allow you to sort through problems, brainstorm options, analyze the
positive and negative outcomes, and then implement and reflect on the choices you

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make. When applied to health issues, this process gives you the ability to make
decisions individually, or collaboratively, to improve your quality of life.
There are five basic steps in decision-making. Be specific about the decision to
be made, check your options, assess your capacity to decide, make the decision, and
describe the outcome of the decision.

Step 1
Be specific about the decision to be made.
Process Example
Identify a list of situations where a I am invited to a birthday party of my
decision needs to be made. bestfriend in the middle of this
pandemic. I asked permission from my
• Decisions are made based on a parents but they won’t allow me to go.
variety of factors, experience,
knowledge, and emotions. What should I do?

• Some decisions need to be made I don’t want to hurt my bestfriend for not
before the situation. For example, attending her birthday party.
Washing your hands with soap and
water before eating. I also don’t want to disobey my parents
because, at my age, I am not allowed to
• Important decisions should be made go out of our house during this
thoughtfully. pandemic.

So, I will call my bestfriend and tell her

honestly my decision of not going to her
birthday party ahead of time.

Step 2
Check your options.
Process Example
Make a list of all of the possible options My options are to:
to consider in a situation.
1. I could ask my best friend to talk to
The following questions may help you my parents about her birthday party.
guide your thinking:
Outcomes, positive, I get to understand
• Is the option healthy or unhealthy? that by going out of the house during
this pandemic, I may be able to affect
• How does this option affect me? the health of my family as well as mine.

• How does this option affect others? 2. I can still attend her birthday party
through virtual presence.
3. My family and I are safe at home.

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Step 3
Assess your capacity to decide.
Process Example
After identifying options and outcomes,
distinguish between the decisions you
can make by yourself and the decisions
with which you need help.

Consider the following questions: • I feel safe and secure with this
• Are you having trouble coming decision.
up with healthy options?
• Is your safety or someone else’s • I can also feel comfortable with the
safety at risk? healthy options that I have my family
• Are you feeling uncomfortable with me at home and safe.
with your options?

Based on the answer to these • I can say that I made this decision on
questions, do you need to ask a trusted my own.
adult or refer to another resource for
help?

Step 4
Make a decision and follow through.
Process Example
You are now ready to make a decision I chose the option that is best and
based on your analysis of the positive healthy both for my family and my
and negative outcomes. bestfriend during this pandemic.

Step 5
Describe the outcome of the decision.
Process Example
Describe the outcome of the decision I told my parents about my decision of
and determine if the outcome was telling my best friend that I am not
positive or negative for others and allowed to attend her birthday party for
yourself. now because of the pandemic.

The outcome was positive

because my parents saw my courage to
tell me best-friend about my health
option for my family and my best friend
too.

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 You Can Do It!

Suggested Time Allotment: 30 minutes

Copy the following activity sheet on a clean sheet of paper. Write down your
decisions based on the given situations:

Situation Decision

Your teacher tells you to be the leader

of a group.

Your parents expect you to stay at

home during this pandemic but your
bestfriend invites you to a birthday
party.

You saw children playing outside their

houses during this pandemic.

What are your considerations in coming up with the decisions in given situations?
Enumerate your answers.

What I Have Learned

Suggested Time Allotment: 30 minutes

Write a short essay on “The Importance of Making Decisions Following Correct
Procedures”. Relate it to your own personal experience.

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 Share Your Thoughts and Feelings

Suggested Time Allotment: 30 minutes

On a short bond paper, draw the things that you can associate with decision-making.
These things would serve as your reminder that you are doing the decision-making
process properly. Draw as many as you can and color them as desired. At the back,
explain your drawings.

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