Advanced Organizers

David Ausubel believed that:
To learn meaningfully, students must relate new knowledge to what they already know. An advance organizer can help students link their ideas with new material or concepts. It is designed as the "mental scaffolding” to learn new information.
Learning proceeds in a top-down, or deductive manner.

Advance organizers can be
- Outline or verbal
- A graphic.

The Advance Organizer consists of three phases:
1. Presentation of the organizer
a)Present the prepared AO—outline or graphic
b)Explain the essential features
2. Presentation of learning task
a)Describe the specific learning task
b)Make connections with AO
3. Strengthening the cognitive structure
a)Summarize
b)Incorporate with the content

How to Choose Advanced Organizer

EXAMPLES

Fish Bone



Star

Tree

References

Meaningful Reception Learning Theory. (n.d.). retrieved from

http://www.scribd.com/doc/27043905/Ausubel-Theory

Gaikwad, P. (2011). Advanced instructional strategies [compendium]. Silang, Philippines: Adventist Institute of Advanced Studies.

Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers. (n.d.). retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/106009/chapters/Cues,-Questions,-and-Advance-Organizers.aspx

Graphic Organizer. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/