Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers
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Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers
All of these are used to activate students’ prior knowledge in a subject, which can aid them by
providing a mindset for any given subject.
Alan RaskKLPM
Spring 2011
Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers
Cues or Questions: activate students’ prior knowledge giving hints or questioning the students’ current knowledge. Example: Watching a movie in a biology classroom preceded by a
hint that the video will be about cell structure, and that some of the information will be on a test.
A simple guide to questioning and cuing: Focus on the important, not on the unusual Higher level questions help students achieve a deeper knowledge
base than lower level questions Appropriate wait time allows students to formulate deeper
responses Questions asked before a lesson are used to provide a mindset
Alan RaskKLPM
Spring 2011
Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers
Advance Organizers: given before learning that are of a higher level of knowledge than the information in a lesson. Like cues and questions, they create a scaffolding for more detailed knowledge that follows.
Successful advance organizers:Focus on the important, rather than the unusual.Higher level advance organizers produce deeper
learning than lower level advance organizers.Organize previously unorganized information.Differ in type depending on the strategy employed.
Alan RaskKLPM
Spring 2011
Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers
Types of advance organizers and their uses:Expository – describe new content that students are
to be exposed for relevant mindset in advance.Narrative – present information in story format for an
easier way to chunk information in the mind.Skimming information – skimming before reading to
pick up some main ideas or terms. Graphic – nonlinguistic representations of
information to create a visual image of how the information flows.Example: concept map that shows an ecosystem’s
hierarchy or the stages of digestion.Alan Rask
KLPMSpring 2011