Advance Organizers

Similar to cues and questions, advance organizers offer another way for students to access important information.

4 Generalizations of Advance Organizers (AO)

1. AO should focus on what is important as opposed to what is unusual.

2. "Higher level" AO produce deeper learning than the "lower level" AO.

3. AO are most useful with information that is not well organized.

4. Different types of AO produce different results.


which leads to...

Different Types of AO in the classroom

**Expository AO - describes new content

**Narrative AO - presents new info in story format

** Skimming - skim read over material to get the gist of concept before deeper learning

** Graphic AO - reference Chapter 6 in Marzano