Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers

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Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers

• New Hanover County Schools
• Instructional Services
• 2008-2009

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• Cues, questions, and advance organizers are
  techniques used to help students activate prior
  knowledge and deepen understanding of current
  learning.

"Cueing and questioning are at the heart of
classroom practice."
(Marzano 113)
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• Cueing and questioning might account for as
  much as 80 percent of what occurs in a given
  classroom on a given day.
• Davis, O.L., Tinsley, 1967 Fillippone, 1998.

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Generalizations in using cues and questions

• Waiting briefly before accepting responses from
  students has the effect of increasing the depth
  of students answers.
• Higher level questions produce deeper learning
  than lower level questions.
• Cues and questions should focus on what is
  important as opposed to what is unusual.
• Questions are effective learning tools even when
  asked before a learning experience.

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Types of Advance Organizers

• Expository
• Narrative
• Skimming
• Graphic Organizers

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Levels of Thinking and Reasoning
(Adapted from Marzano, et al, 1988)

• Evaluating
• Integrating
• Generating
• Analyzing
• Applying
• Organizing
• Knowledge

Usually higher order thinking skills
Usually lower order thinking skills
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Revised Blooms Taxonomy
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Research to Application
Higher-level questions tend to produce deeper
levels of learning. (Marzano 114)
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Levels of Questions

• In the Disney version of Cinderella, what are
  the names of Cinderellas stepsisters?
• Compare and contrast Cinderella to one of her
  stepsisters.
• What are the characteristics that make
  Cinderellas stepsisters so undesirable to the
  prince?

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Moving to Higher Levels of Questioning

• With your group, read through the question
  cards.
• Choose two questions.
• Write a higher-level questionfor each of the
  questions your group selected.

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• Helping students think about new knowledge
  before experiencing it can go a long way toward
  enhancing student achievement. (Marzano 120)