International Journal of Advanced Research in ISSN: 2278-6236 Management and Social Sciences Impact Factor: 6.284 Vol. 5 | No. 6 | June 2016 www.garph.co.uk IJARMSS | 517 ATTITUDINAL COMPETENCE OFPRE-SERVICE TEACHERS, KALINGA–APAYAO STATE COLLEGE Rhonda Vail G. Leyaley, Kalinga-Apayao State College, Bulanao, Tabuk City, Kalinga Lovelia R. Iringan, Kalinga-Apayao State College, Bulanao, Tabuk City, Kalinga Abstract: The global industry has changed over the years as well as employment is very competitive nowadays. In this time, the question is what would make college graduates successful in their chosen careers. It would be noted that employers say that the graduates should not only be skilled but foremost they should have the right attitude to perform their work to achieve the institutions goals. The aim of this study therefore is to look into the attitudinal competence of pre-service teachers of the Institute of Teacher Education, Kalinga-Apayao State College. Based from the findings, the pre-service teachers of the Kalinga-Apayao State College possess and demonstrate positive and appropriate attitudes; and demonstrate acceptable behaviours in the workplace that can make them different from the graduates of other teacher education institutions. However, these attitudes differ as to age and birth order. It is therefore recommended that: the Institute of Teacher Education of the KalingaApayao State College should continuously intensify activities that will enhance and improve the attitudinal competence of their students; that the Institute will operate an appraisal or personal development review system; and conduct seminars on personality development. RATIONALE Student teaching is the culminating activity given to all education students who have passed all academic requirements during their four year course in education. These student teachers are deployed in selected cooperating schools for their pre-service training. They are assigned to cooperating teachers whom they will work with in the course of four months. Most often than not, what these students learn inside the classrooms are far different from that of what they experience in the field of teaching. Because of this, student teachers are sometimes criticized to be unresponsive and accordingly, they do not have the initiative and voluntarism to do things as expected by the cooperating teacher. In the course of time, sometimes student teachers are misinterpreted most especially on how