The WICS theory of Sternberg

1. Module 17
Sternberg’s succesful intelligence
theory and WICS model

2. Robert J. Sternberg
✘Born on December 8, 1949
✘Is a cognitive psychologist who is currently the
provost and professor of psychology at the
Oklahoma state university.

3. “What is sternberg’s theory of
intelligence?
The triarchic theory describes three distinct types of
intelligence that a person can possess. Sternberg calls
these three types practical intelligence, creative
intelligence and analytic intelligence.

4. Successful intelligence theory
1. Memory skills - help us recall facts and pieces of information.
It helps us retain the knowledge we acquire.
2. Analytic skills- help the person determine if a certain idea is
good.
3. Creative skills- allow a person to come up with new idea,
usually to answer a need or solve a problem. It makes one flexile
and able to adjust changes in one’s situation.
4. Practical skills- enable a person apply what one has learned .
It also allows one to carry through implement a plan.

5. The WICS model
✘In the WICS model, intelligence is viewed
as a set of fluid abilities to learn from
experience and to adapt to one’s
surroundings
✘WICS stands for wisdom, intelligence,
creativity and synthesized.

6. Sterberg described the wics model as
follows
“The basic idea is that citezens of the world need creativity to form a
vision of where they want to go and to cope with changes in the
environment, analytical intelligence to ascertain whether their
creative ideas are good ones, practical intelligence to implement their
ideas, and wisdom in order to ensure that the ideas will help achieve
some ethically-based common good, over the long and short terms,
rather than just what is good for them and their families and friends”

7. Applying the wics model
The uses of the WICS model include
admission, instruction and assessment.

8. How do you teach analytically?
1. Analyze
2.Critique
3.Judge
4.Compare and contrast
5.Evaluate
6.assess

9. How do you teach analytically?
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, Larry Alcala’s “ slice of life

10. How do you teach analytically?
a. Compare and contrast the Italian approaches of
Montessori and Reggio Emilia in early childhood
education.
b. Evaluate the validity the theory of evolution. Write
a term paper on this
c. Assess the strategy of the manila city government
to improve the traffic situation around the city

11. 1. Create
2.Invent
3.Discover
4.Imagine if…
5.Suppose that…
6.predict
How do you teach creatively?

12. How do you teach creatively?
a. Create an alternative ending for Florante at
Laura (literature)
b.Invent adialogue 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)

13. How do you teach creatively?
a. Imagine if EDSA revolution did not happen in 1986. what do you
think our country will be like at present and 10 years later?(
araling panlipunan)
b. Suppose that you were to design a computer game to helpchilden
learn about love and sacrifice. Describe the game you will create (
computer education, edukasyon sa pagpapakatao)
c. Predict changes that will happen if humans had a third eye at the
back of their heads. Choose an appliance or gadget that would
need to be changed in order to be useful. Propose a new functional
design (HELE)

14. How to teach pratically?
1. Apply
2.Use
3.Put into practice
4.Implement
5.Employ
6.Render pratical what they know

15. How to teach pratically?
a. Apply addition concept in determining number of boys
and girls in the classroom (mathematics)
b. Use knowledge of excel to keep track of daily household
expenses (computer education, mathematics)
c. Put into practice what you learn about classroom rules
in making your own classroom rules poster (classroom
management)

16. How to teach pratically?
a. Implement a lesson plan that one has made
(principle of teaching)
b. Employ the formula of computing the are of one’s
living room to determine the number of 12’’x12’’
tiles needed to cover the floor.
c. Render practical a proposed assemly design for a
computer PC.

17. How to teach wisdom
1. Try to find a common good
2. See things from others point of view
3. Balance your own interests with those of others and of institutions.
4. Look at the longterm as wel as the short term
5. Reflect about how one can base his every decision on positive ethical
values
6. Appreciate that in life what is seen as true and effective may vary
over time and place.

18. “Your role as a teacher is not to
educate the mind alone, but to
educate the soul as well.