The Work Immersion Activities of the Senior High School Students at the Division of City of Balanga: Their Implications on their Career Path Orientation

Abstract

The main purpose of the study is to determine the implications of the work immersion experience to senior high school students’ career path orientation since it is the first time the K to 12 Curriculum is implemented in the Philippine Educational System. A descriptive qualitative phenomenological type of design was used to conduct this study. Data for the study was collected from 135 students, 10 teachers and 20 supervisors drawn from both public and private schools together with the partner institutions in the Schools Division of City of Balanga using sets of survey questionnaires and interviews. The work immersion of the students, in general, brought a better eye view that leads them to have a more precise decision if they will continue to pursue the chosen course in college or would choose another line of a profession that would best fit their skills and abilities. The work immersion experience has caused some setbacks in terms of their field exposure since some of them have not been exposed to the strand they’ve taken in senior high school. Furthermore, there was a lack of partner institutions specifically for academic track. Therefore, only the students from the Technical-Vocational Livelihood (TVL) track with different specializations and Accountancy and Business Management (ABM) strand under Academic track are recommended to take work immersion subject since these tracks/strands have most benefitted from this program based from the results of their first immersion program for the academic year 2017-2018. Whereas the rest of the strands such as the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS) and General Academic Strand (GAS) are hereby recommended to take the applied subjects intended for them. As mentioned, the Sports track had no enrolees in the aforesaid academic year.