I received a lot of requests for a TLE reviewer for Licensure Exam for Teachers(LET); so, I decided to create a guide. My specialization was English, so please, consider my background as well when I did the following guide. What I mean by that is I did not take classes on TLE in college so my judgement may not be as good as yours. However, I had drafting and electricity classes in high school which were among my favorite subjects. Please consider reading the disclaimer as well as another tip from me.
Electricity
- Explainthe sources and kinds of electricity
- Electricity Generation
- Explainthe electron theory and the Ohm’s Law
- Electron Theory from hotrodders.com
- A flash lesson on Ohm’s Law (click the begin lesson link)
- The theory of the Electron
- Ohm’s law from NASA site
- Ohm’s law from Wikipedia
- Identify the parts of a complete electrical circuit
- Complete Electrical Circuits (it’s a good slideshow, to keep reading about EC click the buttons on the upper right)
- From ehow (this just shows four then the first one showed five, so not sure)
- This one’s a simple picture
- What makes a light bulb light? (A lesson plan)
- Follow proper procedures in electrical housewiring
- You research this
- Knowledge of basic computer concepts
Below are free downloadable online books on Electricity from Google Books: (use Chrome?)
Below are online quizzes on electricity:
Refrigeration and Airconditioning (RAC)
- Identify the basic tools and equipment on RAC
- No idea, maybe you know what to look for. Search your books from College or something.
- Explain the principle of refrigeration cycle
- Explainthe function of refrigeration and copper tubing
- Identify the symbols in the schematic diagram
Below are online quizzes on RAC:
Drafting
- Enumerate and explain the alphabetic of lines (not sure if these are universal concepts)
- Define and perform orthographic projection and an isometric drawing
- Does it mean you have to do drafting while in the exam?
- Anyways, here is orthographic projection from Wikipedia
- And refresh your mind what isometric drawing is.
- Geez, I remember our drafting class in HS!
- Explain the different technique in freehand and mechanical drawing
- You better be good at explaining. Write it on your own words.
- Freehand drawing – Isn’t this about drawing something without any use of rulers? But I guess you have to elaborate that eh since it asks for different techniques, so research that.
- Mechanical drawing from ehow
- Application of computer knowledge in drawings
- Does this mean that you should know at least to operate computers so you can draw using Paint? or Adobe Illustrator? or Photoshop? or AutoCad? or Google SketchUp?
- What do you think?
Woodworking
- Discuss the different uses and maintenance of woodwork
- Uses of woodwork? Let me guess, to create furniture that humans can use inside their house, at school, or at work, or anywhere. XD
- Maintenance of woodwork, let me guess, again. Well, wood degrades, right? Or paint goes off? So you have to refinish, repaint it or do some careful cleaning with it by considering what cleaning items to use with it. Haha.. I’m just guessing here since I can’t find any online sources.
- Constructcommon wood joints
- Explain the principles of mensuration and layout
- What is mensuration?
- I don’t know what the principles of mensuration and layout is, but isn’t that just asking you the importance of having measurements and layouts while doing woodwork? I might be wrong, so please refer to your books.
- Explain the importance, uses, and maintenance of different woodworking machines
- Woodworking machines from Wikipedia (just click the links to go to the explanation of each machine)
Automechanics
- Demonstrate understanding of basic shop principles, practices, and fundamental aspects of automotive
- Manifest understanding of engine classification
- Demonstrate fundamental operations of engine fuel system
- Demonstrate ability to apply knowledge of ignition system
Honestly, I’m stuck here. I can’t find any specific good online resources. So please consider reading the following webpages. Maybe you know where to look.
- Internal combustion engine
- Fuel injection
- MOTOR VEHICLES OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
- Introduction to Auto Engines
- How Car Engines Work
Radio Mechanics
- Demonstrate knowledgeof the fundamentals of electronics
- Fundamentals of Electronics – This is actually a class outline of a professor, but there are resources at the bottom and also some review sheets where he asks you what concepts to review and what to do to better understand
- Demonstrate functional knowledge and skills in the application of the principles of magnetism and electromagnetism
- Interpret electronic schematic diagram
- Is this the same as circuit diagram?
- Here’s the Google image results.
- Explainthe principles involved in the PCB design layout and etching
Metal Works
- Demonstrate functional knowledge and skillsin bendiwork
- What is bendiwork? Is this a typo?
- Applyknowledge of and skills in sheet metalwork
- Apply functional knowledge of and skills in electric welding
- Is it also called arc welding? Well, here’s a whole lesson about it. Click the yellow arrows on the right.
- Arc welding in Wikipedia
- What is electric welding?
- Observe safety precautions in bench metal work
General readings:
- Radio Mechanics overview
- Metalworking from Wikipedia
- Youtube video of metalworking
- Google Books’ free Metalworking: a book of tools, materials, and processes for the handyman
Entrepreneurship/Business and Distribute Arts
- Describethe role of entrepreneurship in economic growth
- They create jobs! Then people have more money to buy! Well, maybe there’s more.
- How Is Entrepreneurship Good for Economic Growth?
- Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
- Identifythe different types of business organizations
- Business, entry from Wikipedia
- Types of Business Organizations – Legal Forms of Businesses
- Understand the prospects of the industrial arts in economic growth
- Is this asking about all the subjects here like the impact of Auto Mechanics, Electricity, Metal Works, Radio Mechanics, etc. in the growth of an economy? Just imagine if a lot of people in the Philippines can do this stuff and a lot of people can buy cars. In other countries, people who work in these fields earn a decent amount of money. I mean these are noble jobs in other countries.
Cosmetology
- Cosmetology in Wikipedia
- Manicure
- Pedicure
- History of Cosmetics
- History of Hairstyle — seems to be well researched
Foods
Carpentry
Instructional Methods and Evaluation of Learning
- Teaching Strategies
- Now, how will you teach these subjects?
- Evaluation of Teaching and Learning
- Now, ask yourself how you will evaluate your students with what they learned from these subjects.
Disclaimer:
This document is based on a PDF file I downloaded from PRC’s official website in May 2011 before they redesigned their site. As of now, I can’t find this document on their new site structure. Please use this as one of your guides when reviewing but I cannot attest that PRC is still going to test these competencies on the coming LET. However, these will at least give you direction, and if you are a retaker, these should ring a bell to you, reminding you of questions on the LET you took before.
With each of the competencies that PRC is going to test, I have listed some websites that you might want to read if you don’t have any books from college you can use. Please use your judgment on reading through these websites. Some of the information may not apply. As I mentioned earlier, my concentration was English so I have no idea what you learned in College. I’m just trying to help.
Trivia:
Among my favorite subjects when I was in High School were Electricity and Drafting. I did pretty well.
Another tip:
What I can tell you about the whole exam is it’s designed to test your knowledge and understanding (so equip yourself with these two). Learn to reason out and apply any knowledge and compare different methods from each other. A lot of questions are designed to trick you, but in the end you might just end up with two possible choices after eliminating the two options that are detractors obviously. With two possible choices left, this is the time to analyze, compare, and most probably just use common sense.
pls.. have mercy I need to have TLE reviewer, because passing LET exam is my prostration…
Thank you for posting this site/reviewer, it’s help me to passed the LET last March. Hope others can also see this.
God Bless and more power…
i am so thankful to have this site as part of my reviewer it helped me most. that’s why i passed my let exam last sept 2012.
Thankz much madam for the idea you’ve shared it helps me a lot about my major subject,itz a little bit complicated topicz. Can u send me a reviewer about TLE? Im hoping madam,thankz again
Hey guys!
http://www.prc.gov.ph/news/?id=477
Separate test booklets will be used for the General Education (GE) and Professional Education (PE) subjects for both elementary and secondary levels in the March 10, 2013 Board Licensure Examination for professional teachers and succeeding board examinations.
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) and the Professional Regulatory Board for Professional Teachers decided to use separate test booklets for GE and PE subjects in a meeting on January 23, 2013.