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Ivie, Stanley D. – Excellence in Education Journal, 2021
Do you wish to connect with your students? Then cultivate the art of storytelling. A good story can enliven a dull lesson, and it can expand the horizons of an interesting one. Storytelling can be used as an advance organizer for introducing a new unit of thought, or it can work equally well as a capstone for what has already been learned. Great…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Story Telling, Learning Theories, Advance Organizers
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Delisio, Lauren A.; Dieker, Lisa – Childhood Education, 2019
The number of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in elementary mathematics classrooms today is on the rise and educators around the world are seeking innovative methods for teaching them. The authors of this article describe using an avatar-based program called TeachLivE to help students with ASD develop a graphic organizer strategy to…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics
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High, Vance; VanHorn, Laura – Science and Children, 2012
With the pervasiveness of digital technology, elementary students almost instinctively begin inquiry-based instruction with a bias. Visual information from digital devices competes with elementary science inquiry. To counteract this effect, teachers can use advance organizers. The advance organizer is a tool or a mental learning aid to help…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Learning Activities, Advance Organizers, Visual Literacy
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Bardine, Bryan Anthony; Fulton, Anthony – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2008
In this article, the authors examine the role revision memos played in composition classrooms. Both authors used the memos to help students reflect on their writing and continue revising. The memos also served as guides for the instructors as they responded to their students' writing. The memos were a reminder that the instructors needed to focus…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Revision (Written Composition), Process Approach (Writing), Advance Organizers
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Burt, Derek – PRIMUS, 2006
Two years ago I implemented a basic outline of each class for my students to take notes on for Calculus II at the United States Military Academy. The outline provided students with a shell of the class material for each day of class. Their job was to fill in the shell as we went through the material. The outlines provided students an easy method…
Descriptors: Calculus, Military Schools, Teaching Methods, Notetaking
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Barbosa, Heloiza R.; Marques, Marilis V.; Torres, Bayardo B. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2005
The metabolic versatility of bacteria is a source of learning difficulty for students in classical microbiology courses. To facilitate the learning process, the authors developed an advance organizer. It consists of a set of six diagrams of metabolic pathways describing the basic living requirements of several types of bacteria: energy, carbon…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Microbiology, Learning Problems, Advance Organizers
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Skylar, Ashley A.; Higgins, Kyle; Boone, Randall – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2007
WebQuests are gaining popularity as teachers explore using the Internet for guided learning activities. A WebQuest involves students working on a task that is broken down into clearly defined steps. Students often work in groups to actively conduct the research. This article suggests a variety of methods for adapting WebQuests for students with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Study Guides, Advance Organizers, Learning Disabilities
Hancock, Burton W.; And Others – 1982
For a teleconference to be successful, presentations need to be both interesting and educational. The integration of media components such as slide, overhead transparencies, videotapes, or handouts in an audio teleconference expands a single-channel presentation into a multi-sensory channel presentation. The selection and utilization of such media…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Attention, Audiovisual Aids, Cognitive Processes
Reis, Ron; Leone, Peter E. – Pointer, 1987
Two instructional strategies to help mildly learning handicapped students read and understand textual material are described: (1) previewing (use of introductory paragraphs, including questions, that provide a cognitive framework for approaching a textbook passage); and (2) text summarization by students themselves as a follow-up activity.…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Mild Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Callison, Daniel – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2000
Focuses on "organizers," tools or techniques that provide identification and classification along with possible relationships or connections among ideas, concepts, and issues. Discusses David Ausubel's research and ideas concerning advance organizers; the implications of Ausubel's theory to curriculum and teaching; "webbing," a…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Classification, Curriculum Development, Graphic Organizers
Vanderbilt, Kathi L. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2005
The brain is a complex organ and learning is a complex process. While there is not complete agreement among researchers about brain-based learning and its direct connection to neuroscience, knowledge about the brain as well as the examination of cognitive psychology, anthropology, professional experience, and educational research can provide…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Library Services, Educational Research, Cognitive Psychology
Slate, John R.; Charlesworth, John R., Jr. – 1988
The information processing model, a theoretical framework of how humans think, reason, and learn, views human cognitive functioning as analogous to the operation of a computer. This paper uses the increased understanding of the information processing model to provide teachers with suggestions for improving the teaching-learning process. Major…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Attention Span, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology
Raszkowski, Robert R.; Chute, Alan G. – 1982
Designing teleconference programs for the physician learner puts unique demands on the teleconferencing medium. Typically, physicians expect a 1-hour lecture presentation with high information density. To effectively present the medical content material in an audio medium, strategies which structure and organize the content material are necessary.…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Information Networks, Instructional Design, Medical Education
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Chung, Jing-Mei – TESL Canada Journal, 1996
Explores two video instructional strategies for the foreign language classroom: advance organizers and captions in the target language. A set of classroom procedures are proposed that combine advance organizers and captions to teach English as a foreign language. (9 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Captions, Class Activities, Educational Television
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Maier, Joan – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1993
Discusses the use of advance organizers in elementary geography instruction. Asserts that maps and globes can be used as advance organizers to improve learning about geographic locations and regions. Provides two classroom activities with accompanying data charts to illustrate the technique. (CFR)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Geographic Location
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