Cues, Question and Advance Organization

 Cues & Question should focus on what is important as opposed to what is unusual.

 Question designed for deeper understanding will increase student interest.

 “High level "question produce deeper learning than “lower level” question.

 Question should require student to analyze information rather than just recall.

 Student should be asked to restructure information or apply knowledge in some way.

 Waiting briefly before accepting responses from students had the effect of increasing the dept
of students answer.

 Question are effective learning tools even when asked before a learning experience.

 Helps set the mental process of the learning experience.

 Before learning new information teacher should help students retrieve what they already know
about a topic or “activity prior knowledge”

 It helps students understand new information, predict what might be coming, and
clarify misconceptions.

 A way to help students use what they already know about the topic.

 Cues
 Cues involve “Hints” about what the student are about to experience.

Question
 The teacher may write a list of questions on the board to provide a focus for learning
new information.

 Explicit clues.
 Giving a preview of what is to be learned perhaps with the use of picture.

 By explaining the learning outcomes of the lesson/unit.

 Providing a guide question that they should be able to answer at the end of the lesson/unit.

 Inferential question
 Are questions that can be answered through analysis and interpretation of the text.
  Advance Organizer
 A bridges the gap between what the learner already knows and what he needs to know.

 A.O. should focus on what is important.

 Higher level A.O. produce deeper understandings.

 A.O. Are most useful w/ information that is not well organized.

 Different A.O. produce different result.

4 formats of Advance Organizer

 Expository Advance Organizer

 Describes new content to be learned (analogy: annotated bibliography)

 Narrative Advance Organizer

 Presents information in story format (ex. Personal story)

 Skimming Advance Organizer

 Briefly becoming familiar with information (ex. Table of contents review)

 Graphical Advance Organizer

 Partially completed web as a preview to be completed as information is presented.

 They visually represent information students are about to learn.

By ; Arnel L. Cerillo Jr. 3 - MAPEH