The study assessed the level of 21st century skills of pre-service teachers of the UEP system, which would serve as a basis in coming up with an enhancement program for student teaching. Particularly, it determined the profile of the pre-service teachers in the three campuses of the University of Eastern Philippines in terms of sex, annual income, type of high school attended, degree program and academic performance; and the profile of the cooperating teachers and supervising teachers in terms of sex, educational attainment, academic rank, years of experience as cooperating teacher and training-teachers seminar attended. Likewise, the study assessed the level of the 21st century skills of the respondents as perceived by the pre-service teachers and cooperating teachers in terms of learning and innovation skills, effective communication skills, life and career skills and information, media and technology skills. The study found out the relationship between the profile of the pre-service teachers and their level of 21st century skills; the relationship between the profile of the cooperating teachers and the level of 21 century skills of the pre-service teachers: and the difference in the levels of 21 century skills of the pre service teachers as perceived by the pre-service teachers themselves, the cooperating and supervising teachers. The respondents were senior teacher education students of the three campuses during the school year 2013-2014, the supervising teachers of the University of Eastern Philippines three campuses and the cooperating teachers of the students in the Department of Education schools. Using the descriptive correlational design, the study utilized a modified instrument 21st century skills. Data were treated using frequency counts, means, percentages, analysis of variance and multiple regression analysis. Majority of the pre-service teachers are female; had a family income from 40,000-below; graduated from public high school; had BEED degree and had good academic performance. Majority of the cooperating teachers are female; BS/AB graduates with MA units; with Teacher III positions; had 1-5 years’ experience cooperating teacher and had no training seminars attended. Majority of the supervising teachers are female; BS/AB with MA units; with Instructor II positions; had 1-5 years’ experience as supervising teacher and had no training-teacher seminars attended. Majority of the pre-service teachers had "High" level of 21st century skills in terms of learning and innovation skills and information, media and technolog skills effective communication skills and "very high" in terms of life and career skills. Sex, type of high school attended and academic performance of the pre-service teachers were found to be significantly related to their level of 21st century skills. The profile of the cooperating/supervising teachers, particularly sex and experience as supervising teachers, was significantly related to the level of 21 century skills of the pre-service teachers. There was a significant difference in the level of 21st century skills of the pre-service teachers as perceived by the three groups of respondents.
Cooperating teacher, 21st century skills, Student teaching program, life and career skills, enhancement
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