MEANINFUL LEARNING

Meaningful learning refers to the concept that the learned

knowledge (lets say a fact) is fully understood by the individual
and that the individual knows how that specific fact relates to other
stored fact (stored in your brain that is).
When meaningful learning occurs the facts are stored in a relational
manner .That is, the brain stores them together because they are
related to each other. Now, when one fact is recalled, the other facts
are also recalled at that moment (or shortly thereafter). This
phenomenon is called the spread of activation. This is the gist of
meaningful learning.

THEORY OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

"Multiple intelligences is a psychological theory about the
mind. It's a critique of the notion that there's a single
intelligence which we're born with, which can't be
changed, and which psychologists can measure. It's based
on a lot of scientific research in fields ranging from
psychology to anthropology to biology. It's not based upon
based on test correlations, which most other intelligence
theories are based on. The claim is that there are at least
eight different human intelligences. Most intelligence tests
look at language or logic or both - those are just two of
the intelligences. The other six are musical, spatial,
bodily/kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and
naturalist. I make two claims. The first claim is that all
human beings have all of these intelligences. It's part of
our species definition. The second claim is that, both
because of our genetics and our environment, no two
people have exactly the same profile of intelligences, not
even identical twins, because their experiences are
different."

Howard Gardner

As we can see, the theory of multiple intelligences proposes a big

transformation in the way our schools are run. Due to the fact that.
Traditionally school education is mostly focus on linguistic and
mathematical intelligences.
Dr. Gardner suggests that teachers
should be trained to present their lessons in a wide variety of ways
using music, cooperative learning, art activities, role play, multimedia,
field trips, inner reflection, and much more.
I completely agree with this point of view, because when you are a
teacher, you easily perceive that not all your students learn through
the same way. Therefore, on the one hand, you should have into
account the different intelligences there are in your class and, on the
other hand, you have to have a clear idea about the contents and the
concepts you want the students achieve in order to provide them with
the biggest range of different activities focused in these multiples
intelligences to cover all their needs.

NLP (NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING)

This is a Cognitive educational principle. It is connected with the
process in which students obtain the knowledge. In fact, NLP deals
specifically with the various ways in which they do that.
In order to obtain knowledge, students have to process information,
and NLP effectiveness in helping students gain a better understanding
of the way they learn.
As Richard Bandler and John Grinder said; NLP shows us how
language and behaviours are really structured, and that this structure
can be 'modeled' or copied into a reproducible form.
In addition, these techniques are closely connected to the theory of
multiple intelligences due to the fact of taking into account the
different ways that different students learn (visual learning, auditory
learning or kinaesthetic learning). Therefore, some teachers are
apliying NLP in the classroom for the benefit of all kind of learners.
I think that having into account not only the concepts or contents to
be learned but also the process in which these is acquired, is essential
when we are aware of the different types of learners we have in our
classroom.