How TLE cookery helps students

Maria Caridad Laorence M. Miranda

The importance of cookery as a course in Technology and Livelihood Education under the K to 12 Curriculum has always been emphasized.

Cookery not only includes developing skills in cooking and in poultry, meat and fish cookery, but also provides students knowledge and develop skills that will transform their lives toward productive ends.

In TLE cookery, skills in doing some chores like developing responsible parenthood to have a happy family relationship are developed, underscoring the many ways and this things students need for their future.

With the advent of globalization, TLE cookery and its components like cooking, food processing, food handling and even restaurant management has been very vital for students.

In Cookery 9 and 10, varied and relevant activities and opportunities are provided to demonstrate a student’s understanding of concepts and core competencies as prescribed in TESDA Training Regulation in Cookery and provides quality foods and services to target clients.

This will also be a venue for teachers to assess students and identify aspects of business that they need to strengthen and safeguard before they become a part of the workforce.

Today in the world of work, the number of available jobs is scarce and the Department of Education is revitalizing its resources to lead the young minds and to prepare them skillfully as future Chef.

It is in honing the skills that learners can assure to have an edge of surviving the daily needs of oneself and of others. It seeks to provide the learners with the knowledge, attitude, values and skills in the field of Cookery.

The author is Teacher

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III (Junior High School) at Diosdado Macapagal High School, Mexico, Pampanga