The necessity to train student-teachers for an increasingly evolving curriculum will only mean that every tertiary institution should strive to produce passionate and committed educators. The study explored the underlying teaching experiences of all 96 student teacher-extensionists during tutorial sessions. Their teaching experience has been transformed into the phases of experiential learning theory and explored using mixed-method research design. Findings showed that these preservice teachers discovered the passion for teaching amidst challenges in the chosen profession, as such, teaching was neither innate nor a calling; teaching is chosen and enhanced through reflective and relevant personal experiences across experiential stages. With these findings, a substantial increment of firsthand teaching activities like tutorial sessions should be an integral component in a teacher education curriculum.

The study was conducted to assess the TLE program instruction of Southern Leyte State University-San Juan campus. It tried to evaluate the attitude of TLE teachers towards work, students personal view about the course, and the physical and learning environment of the school in relation to TLE program. It utilized descriptive survey using two types of self-made questionnaire, the Linkerts Scale and the Open-ended type survey. The data gathered were treated using weighted mean and the frequency count. Results showed that most of the teachers who are teaching TLE are in retiring age (7 out of 11 or 64%). The attitudes of TLE teachers toward the program are moderately positive while the students’ personal view towards the course is moderately low. Both teachers and students believed that the school needs to update instructional materials, tools, and equipments, and improve classrooms particularly home technology building. With these findings, the researchers came up with recommendations which are to revisit the TLE curriculum in order to ensure relevance of the program to the present career pathways in Technology and Livelihood Education Program of the Department of Education for secondary schools to hire new teachers specializing TLE and to conduct proper orientation of first year students about the TLE program. Keywords - Technology and Livelihood Education, TLE, Instructional Assessment,