CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION, THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE Rationale Students’ preference to teachers’ teaching strategies is a study to learn the importance of teaching strategies towards the needs of the students. One of the areas that have been studied in the past to evaluate a number of these factors in relationship to teaching effectiveness is teaching styles. A teaching style, as defined in this study, includes a teacher's way of communicating with the students, the choices s/he makes to create a desired classroom climate, the level of directiveness taken, and the choices s/he makes in tools, methods, strategies, and evaluation techniques. In other words, teaching style refers to the beliefs of a teacher that translate into their classroom behavior and choices. Different teachers also have different teaching strategies, and that is the main reason why several students won’t participate during class’ recitation and activities. The study is important to help teachers to learn what students need to do in order to create relationship or connection towards each others’ learning benefits. This 1