Mary Flor L Baltazar | Alexander Y Bernaldez | Cristena M Ligayna | Katy Lyn J Malazarte
Pre-service teacher training is one of the most important aspects of every teacher’s education curriculum as it prepares student-teachers to become qualified teachers in the future. Tis study concerned to determine the challenges encountered among pre service secondary teachers of Saint Michael College of Caraga (SMCC), during practice teaching. The researchers, with permission to the owner, used the research instrument for this study and were administered to 39 respondents. The data were tabulated and analyzed using percentage, weighted mean, Pearson Correlation and One-way ANOVA. The result in the findings disclosed that the challenges most encountered by the pre service secondary teachers of Saint Michael College of Caraga were the delivery of instruction while the least issue encountered was assessment learning. The following recommendations were advised: to engaged pre-service secondary teachers in different seminar-workshop that caters with the existing issues as well as providing them with continuing education and development in teaching.