Cues, Questions, and Advanced Organizers

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Cues, Questions, and Advanced Organizers

• Conor C.
• Stephanie M.
• Jenn P.
• Zach S.
• Lauren W.

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Introduction

• Use of prior knowledge can be a powerful
  learning tool. Cues, questions, and advanced
  organizers are techniques that call on students
  prior knowledge. -Marzano

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Objective

• To demonstrate how cues, questions, and advanced
  organizers can be used effectively in the
  classroom.

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Research Question

• How can teachers effectively use cues, questions,
  and advanced organizers in the classroom?

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Cues and Questions

• Cues and questions are hints about what
  students are about to experience.

Ex. A teacher provides a cue when she explains a
film students are about to watch.
Ex. A teacher provides a question when she asks
if anyone knows about the topic of the movie they
are about to watch.
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Cues and Questions

• Cues and questions focus on what is important as
  opposed to what is unusual.

• Higher level questions produce deeper learning
  than lower level questions.

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Cues and Questions

• Waiting briefly before accepting responses from
  students has the effect of increasing the depth
  of students answers.

• Questions are effective learning tools even when
  asked before a learning experience.

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Questions
Analytic Questions -questions that require
students to analyze and critique information.
Questions that Elicit Experiences -questions to
help students make inferences about things,
people, actions, and events.
Examples What is the process for growing a
flower?
Examples How could this be improved?
What is an argument to support your claim?
What type of person grows flowers?
During what season do people usually grow flowers?
What is the reasoning behind your perspective?
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Advanced Organizers

• The advance organizer is designed to bridge the
  gap between what the learner already knows and
  what he needs to know before he can successfully
  learn the task at hand.

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Advanced Organizers

• Advance organizers are closely related to cues
  and questions.

• Advanced organizers are most useful with
  information that is not well organized.

• Different types of advanced organizers produce
  different results.

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Advance Organizers

• Expository describe the new content to which
  students are going to be exposed.

Narrative presents information to students in
story format.
Graphic nonlinguistic representation that is
also an affective organizer.
Skimming skimming information before reading is
a powerful advance organizer.
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Story Time
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Story Board
Monsters getting ready
The night before
While children are sleeping
Halloween morning
After dinner
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Story Board
One house left
Witch encounter
Sad monsters party on
Kids run
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Review

• Teachers can use cues and questions effectively
  by asking questions that focus on what is
  important.
• They can use advanced organizers such as KWL
  charts, venn diagrams, story boards, webs, as
  well as many others.

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Bibliography

• Jones, Laura R. National Board for Professional
  Teaching Standards. 2003. National Board for
  Professional Testing Standards. 29 Sept. 2004
• http//ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/10003
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• Marzano, Robert j., Debra J. Pickering, and Jane
  E. Pollock. Classroom Instruction that Works.
  Alexandria Association For Supervision and
  Curriculum Development, 2001.
• Developing Teaching a course Using Advance
  Organizers. Faculty Development Services.
  University of Pittsburgh. 7 Oct. 2004
• http//www.pitt.edu/ciddeweb/FACULTY-DEVELOPMENT
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• Advanced Organizers.
• http//www.sd40.bc.ca/fol/Toolkit_CognitiveStrate
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