ABSTRACT
A background knowledge of both learning styles and multiple intelligences can only serve to provide teachers with a better understanding of the ways in which they might be able to optimise learning in their charges. An individual's particular strengths in intelligences have a direct bearing upon the way in which their learning takes place. In planning for multiple intelligences, teachers consider the range of activities related to the content of the lesson and the intended learning outcomes that will give a range of opportunities to the children's different intelligence strengths. The literature dealing with learning styles has something else to say that should be of interest to teachers. The next description of learning styles comes from a different, but obviously related, area of human research; namely, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). The Internet is a source of multiple intelligences testing and investigation and more detail and background concerning learning styles.
