Students achieve greater success in learning when teachers use a variety of instructional strategies that meet the educational needs in their class. The instructional strategies selected should engage students while addressing all learning styles.

Guidance for Selecting Instructional Strategies

• Decide what to teach. (content, skills and strategies)
• Determine how to teach the material. (procedures needed to implement the instructional strategies)
• Choose the appropriate instructional strategy for teaching a specific concept that will best meet the educational needs of all the students in class.
• Use a variety of instructional strategies while teaching the various content standards to ensure all learning styles are addressed.
• Incorporate students in deciding which instructional strategies will be the most effective in the learning process.

The amount and depth of information that a teacher is expected to teach in one school year is astounding, Prioritizing the essential curriculum is a critical instructional strategy for teachers and students to be successful. For information on why and how to develop and teach essentials click below.

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What Works In Classroom Instruction - A McREL publication detailing instructional strategies that research shows have the greatest likelihood of positively affecting student learning.

Teaching Tips Index - A terrific resource of information from the educational department at Honolulu, Hawaii. It includes a variety of topics regarding instructional strategies.

Instructional Strategies Online - Instructional strategies determine the approach a teacher may take to achieve learning objectives. Five categories of instructional strategies and explanation of these five categories can be found within this site.

The Adaptive Dimension - Instructional Strategies - This resource provides a variety of instructional strategies, methods and skills.