International Journal of Education (IJE) Vol.10, No.4, December 2022 DOI:10.5121/ije.2022.10403 29 SPIRAL PROGRESSION APPROACH IN THE K TO 12 SCIENCE CURRICULUM: A LITERATURE REVIEW Shiela L. Tirol College of Teacher Education, Cebu Roosevelt Memorial Colleges, Bogo City, Cebu, Philippines ABSTRACT This review highlights the relevance of the Spiral Progression in the K to 12 Science curriculum in order to address the current issues and concerns of the spiral approach. The advantages and disadvantages of the spiral curriculum was reviewed with some researches among foreign counterparts. The nature of science teaching and the current researches of the K to 12 in both local and international context was also emphasized to highlight the science curriculum framework in the Philippines made up of an intertwined science content and science processes. Science process skills in the basic education of the K to 12 are utilized in context through learning the science content. The curriculum is organized on problems and situations that challenge and arouse the curiosity of students to motivate them in learning as well as appreciating science as useful and relevant. Findings showed the spiral curriculum as learner-centered, smart, and advanced rather than extensive and concentrated. KEYWORDS Spiral Progression Approach, Science Curriculum, K to 12, science process, science content 1. INTRODUCTION Our idea as to how people learn has undergone a significant change, which has major implications for science education. A constructivist approach to learning, which posits that learning is constructing one's own knowledge and understanding and involves teaching students how to do so, has emerged from traditional approaches that acknowledge learning as obtaining or emulating knowledge from credible sources and learning science through the transfer of information from the teachers to students. This emerging view of learning science still remain to receive controversies nowadays, yet such developments in educational as well as social and philosophical spheres have call for reforms in science education globally [1]. Spiral Progression Approach is a strategy whereby basic concept are first presented in the first grade and then rediscovered in more complex forms in the following grades. Concepts are first introduced at a young age and then reinforced in progressively more sophisticated ways over the years [2]. In this study, the term refers to the compulsory pedagogical technique to be applied in all subjects, including Science, as mandated in the newly-implemented curriculum that introduces the gist of every given subject matter as it becomes complex as the grade level progresses. One of the most popular methods for content organization, commonly referred to as spiral curriculum, is spiral content organization [3]. The key premise of the spiral curriculum was whether mastering topics that are vital in a child's early development provides a solid foundation for later learning [4]. A spiral curriculum has subjects that go from tangible to abstract, simple to complicated, and from fundamental concepts to strong comprehension [5].