TLE AND SKILLS

I’m sure you would agree that without Technology and Livelihood Education, life can be very frustrating. Why do I say this? It’s because nowadays, life revolves around technology and livelihood to support existence.

Our students, while in school, should know how to use technology to their advantage. This will facilitate work and livelihood to sustain life and health in the future.

Now, there are developments and innovations every minute and we live in a fastchanging world where advancement of technology is at its peak. For instance, communication is not a problem anymore because anyone can connect and speak to someone using smart phones, tablets and laptops anytime, anywhere.

Students can also do research using these gadgets in all topics assigned to them and learn new ideas about education, business, sports, lifestyle, and, culture.

Livelihood, meanwhile, is a way of earning subsistence. The subject TLE can help students earn a decent living in the future – Dressmaking, Electrical Installation and Maintenance, Commercial Cooking or Housekeeping, Electronics Servicing, Computer Hardware Servicing, Food Processing and Fish Processing.

These are the skills necessary for employment after school. The K-12 program actually trains students in joining the workforce.

The subjects that fall under TLE in junior high school or JHS follow the rules of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority or TESDA. This will allow the students to earn a national certification (NC) required by the industry.

Each TLE subject in Grades 7 and 8 is exploratory. This means each student has the chance to explore the following four main courses of TLE: Agri-Fishery Arts; Home Economics; Information and Communications Technology (ICT); and Industrial Arts.