Journal of World Englishes and Educational Practices (JWEEP) ISSN: 2707-7586 Website: www.jweep.org 65 Original Research Article Work Immersion Program for Senior High School in the Division of Pasay: Basis for an Intervention Plan Sean A. Catelo Aborlan National High School, Division of Palawan, Department of Education Corresponding Author: Sean A. Catelo, E-mail: sean.catelo@deped.gov.ph ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article History Received: July 21, 2020 Accepted: August 25, 2020 Volume: 2 Issue: 4 The researcher proposed intervention plan that will provide specific program that will address the problems in Work Immersion Delivery Model and to improve and provide step by step procedure to fill the needs found on the assessment of the work immersion program. It is in this context, the researcher assessed the work immersion program with corresponding variables and proposed intervention program that aims to cater teacher, industry partners and students in the Division of Pasay City to enhanced the better implementation of the work immersion program. KEYWORDS Work Immersion, Intervention Program, Senior High School 1. Introduction 1 The Department of Education implemented Work Immersion Program in accordance with the R.A. 10533 or “The Enhanced Basic Education Act” aiming to strengthen the existing curriculum and add 2 years in high school or the senior high school. On its grade 12, DepEd included work immersion program as one of the best features of the K-12 program that extends the theoretical learning’s of the students into life experience. The program was used to enhance and developed students’ skills towards chosen tracks, strands and specializations that only be done thru work immersion training. It is one of the requirements for graduation and it’s directly relates students’ goals through work related industry on their chosen field. Senior high school students were now given an opportunity to train under business, industry or academe simulation partnered into public or private work immersion partners. On the other hand, in the Division of Pasay City considering it as the travel city where the travel begins, the main business in this area were in Hospitality and Tourism Industry where the offerings of the different senior highs school were more likely the same as in Home Economics Strand having specialization of the following; Food and Beverage Services; Bread and Pastry Production; and Bartending that would cater the needs of the partnered industry. It also offered variety of programs like in Industrial Arts (IA); Automotive Servicing and Electrical Maintenance Installation, Academic Track having the strands of; Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS), and Accountancy Business and Management (ABM) ; and Information and Communication Technology that would cater to the needs of other industry present in the local area. The work immersion teachers experiencing a hard time to interpret such generic work immersion guidelines because of the different tracks, strands and specializations that offered in their respective schools. It resulted to different understanding to the conduct of the said program that may not fall into the prescribed standard of the DepEd. One of the unsatisfactorily conditions from the results of assessment of work immersion program centered on Work Immersion Delivery Model that limits students and teachers in conducting the different models suggested by the Published by Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development. Copyright (c) the author(s). This is an open access article under CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)