This presentation focuses on applying successful intelligence skills in instruction and assessment. Also emphasizes the WICS model.

2. Cognitive Psychologist
• American psychologist and
Psychometrician
• Professor of Human Development at
Cornell University
• Former President of the University of
Wyoming
Known for: Triarchic Theory of Intelligence(1980’s), Triangular Theory of Love, The Three-
Process View
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Wisdom Intelligence Creativity - Synthesized
Model
- an alternative paradigm to deliver more relevant
admission, instruction and assessment in education
Triarchic Theory
of Intelligence
1980
Successful
Intelligence
Theory
WICS Model

4. Let’s say that you are
in a Child and
Adolescent class, you
finished a lesson
about the cause and
effect of bullying.
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Task 1 : Answer a set of fill in the blanks
items about bullying.
Task 2: Read a true story about bullying
and analyse the case.
Task 3: Create a poster/write a song or
poem to stand up against bullying.
Task 4: Make a plan for a teacher to
implement or do to address or handle
bullying in the classroom.

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Task 1 : Answer a set of fill in the blanks
items about bullying.
Task 2: Read a true story about bullying
and analyse the case.
Task 3: Create a poster/write a song or
poem to stand up against bullying.
Task 4: Make a plan for a teacher to
implement or do to address or handle
bullying in the classroom.
Analytical
Skills
Creative Skills
Practical Skills
Memory Skills

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7. The WICS is a more recent model of how human think and reason that can help
us understand how students will learn most effectively.
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Intelligence is viewed as a
set of fluid abilities to learn
from experience and to
adapt to one’s
surroundings.
Individuals possess
ABILITIES that can be
nurtured into
COMPETENCIES and
further cultivated into
EXPERTISE.
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WISDOM
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INTELLIGENC
E
C
CREATIVIT
Y -
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SYNTHESIZE
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9. Your choice must be based on the preferences and strengths of your learners. 9
ADMISSION
WISDOM INTELLIGENC
E
CREATIVIT
Y -
SYNTHESIZE
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INSTRUCTION
ASSESSMENT

10. CritiqueAnalyze
Judge
Compare
and
Contrast
AssessEvaluate
Make your students use critical thinking.
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Design tasks and activities that provide opportunity for your
learners to:

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a. Analyze the development of the character of Ibarra in Noli
Me Tangere.
b. Critique the design and features of the latest smart phone.
c. Judge the artistic merits of Filipino cartoonist, Lary Alcala’s
Slice of Life.
d. Compare and contrast the Italian approaches of Montessori
and Reggio Emilia in early childhood education.
e. Evaluate the validity the theory of evolution. Write a term
paper on this.
f. Assess the strategy of the Manila city government to
improve the traffic situation around the city.
CritiqueAnalyze
Judge
Compare
and
Contrast
AssessEvaluate

12. InventCreate
Discover
Imagine
if…
Predict
Suppose
that…
Encourage and sustain your students creative ideas.
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Design tasks and activities that provide opportunity for your
learners to:

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a. Create an alternative ending to “Florante at Laura”(Literature)
b. Invent a dialog that would transpire if Jose Rizal and Ninoy
Aquino met (Araling Panlipunan)
c. Discover a way to explain why heavy ships float at sea.
(Science)
d. Imagine if EDSA Revolution did not happen in 1986. What do
you think our country will be like at present and 10 years later?
e. Suppose that you were to design a computer game to help
children learn about love and sacrifice. Describe the game you
would create.
f. Predict changes that will happen if humans had a third eye at
the back of their heads. Choose and appliance or gadget that
would need to be changed in order to be useful. Propose a new
InventCreate
Discover
Imagine
if…
Predict
Suppose
that…

14. UseApply
Put into
practice
Implement
Render
practical what
they know
Employ
Have in mind
real life
situations
where
students can
use what they
learn to meet
their own and
also others,
practical
needs.. 14
Design tasks and activities that provide opportunity for your
learners to:

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a. Apply addition concept in determining number of boys and
girls in the classroom. (Math)
b. Use the knowledge of excel to keep track of daily household
expenses (Computer Education and Math)
c. Put into practice what you learn about classroom rules in
making your won classroom rules poster. (Classroom
Management)
d. Implement a lesson plan that one has made. (Principles of
Teaching)
e. Employ the formula of computing the area of one’s living
room to determine the number of 12”x12” tiles needed to cover
the floor.
UseApply
Put into
practice
Implement
Render
practical
what they
know
Employ

16. see things
form other
point of view
try to find
a common
good
Look at the
short and long
terms
balance own
and other’s
interests
Appreciate that
in life what is
seen true and
effective may
vary over time
and place
Reflect and
base every
decision on
positive
ethical values
Learn and understand the point view of others.
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Design tasks and activities that provide opportunity for your
learners to:

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try to find a
common
good
What might be a solution for the common good
in the Philippines and China claim on the Spratly
Islands? (Araling Panlipunan , Political Science)
see things
form other
point of view
Think of a person you had a conflict with. Put
yourself in the person’s place. Write down her point
of view and concerns as possible. What can you do
to express that you understand the person now.
(ESP, General Psychology)

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The WICS MODEL was successful for teachers and
their learners because it:
1. celebrated the differences of learners through a
supporting learning environment,
1.made students remember what they learned better,
2.build on the strengths of the learners, and
3.strengthened the motivations of the learners.
Wisdom Intelligence Creativity Synthesized

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“Successful
intelligence is the
ability to succeed in
life, given one owns
goals, within one’s
environment
contexts.”
Robert J. Sternberg
It is maximizing one’s own strengths not only to ad
to one’s environment, but to also contribute signific
To society.