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Instructional Strategies decide which and what way an instructor will approach the students in the classroom to accomplish the learning goals he/she would like to achieve. All students learn and process information using different Instructional Strategies. Where one strategy may be beneficial to a student, that same strategy may not work so well with another student. This is the instructors duty to observe and see who works best with what strategy.The fundamental importance of teaching strategies is to make it easier to implement a variety of teaching methods and techniques.

By definition, Instructional Strategies is to //"Determine the approach a teacher may take to achieve the learning objectives."// Instructional strategies are tied into the needs and interests of students to enhance learning and social skills and are based on many of the different types of learning styles that are used by many instructors.

To name just a few of the Learning Strategies that are being used in everyday class rooms are as follows:

__ Cooperative Learning __ __ Generating and Testing Hypothesis __ __ Indentifying Similarities and Differences __ __ Summarizing and Note Taking __