MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES IN K TO 12 TEACHING

ELOISA L. TOLENTINO

The K to 12 Curriculum was designed not to solely develop the knowledge competence of the learners across learning areas. The learner as the center of the entire teaching-learning process must be holistically developed to fully realize the mission statement of the department related to developing life-long learners.

Learners’engagement must be more relevant and meaningful to the learners. These will be attained by designing learning tasks which will integrate and hone the multiple intelligences of the learners. The main author of the theory, Howard Gardner, recognizes that intelligences is not only IQ rather it could be musical, mathematical, bodily kinesthetics, spatial, intra and interpersonal, naturalist and the others. Recognizing these intelligences to the diverse learners in the classroom will ensure their total development . The multi-intelligences of the learners are just normal expectations in today’s management of instruction. It is therefore a great challenge on the part of the teachers to continuously enrich the K to 12 competencies across learning disciplines . Enriching is creating greater opportunities for the multiple intelligences of the learners to be equally enhanced with their content-based and skill-based competencies prescribed by the K to 12 Curriculum.

— oOo— II of Caduang Tete Elementary School, The author is Principal Macabebe East District