Expository Instruction

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Expository Instruction

• By John Hauck

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Think about this.

• How often have your teachers used lectures to
  teach you something new?
• Which teachers were effective?
• Which did the more effective lectures
  specifically do to help you learn and understand
  the material?

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What is Expository Instruction?

• Expository Instruction- information that is
  exposed to you in essentially the same form you
  were expected to learn it.
• Lectures
• Explanations
• Textbooks
• Education videos

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Principles Expository Instruction

• Advance Organizers
• Connections to prior knowledge
• Coherent Organizations
• Signals
• Visuals Aids
• Pacing
• Summaries

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Advance Organizer

• Principle
• Helps students develop an overall organizational
  scheme for the material.
• Educational Implication
• Advance organizer typically includes the major
  concepts and ideas of a lesson and shows how
  these concepts and ideas are related to one
  another.

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Connections to prior knowledge

• Principle
• Help students learn classroom material
  meaningfully.
• Educational Implication
• Remind students of something they already know
  and point out how a new idea is similar.

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Coherent Organization

• Principle
• Present information in an organized fashion,
  pointing out important interrelationships.
• Education Implication
• Staying focused with one area and not jump
  around, staying consistent with one topic.

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Concept Map
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Signals

• Principles
• Influences students attention
• Education Implications
• Stress important points

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Visual Aids

• Principle
• Help students encode material visually as well as
  verbally.
• Educational Implications
• Illustrate new material through pictures,
  diagrams, maps, models, and demonstrations.

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Pacing

• Principles
• Give students adequate time to process
  information.
• Educational Implications
• Slow is the key! Present information slow and
  effectively so that the students are able to
  grasp and absorb the information given.

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Summaries

• Principals
• Help student review and organize material and
  identify main ideas
• Educational Implications
• After a lecture or reading assignment summarize
  they key points of the lesson.

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Conclusion

• With using the principles of expository
  Instruction, it allows students to explore a
  topic in an organized and relatively
  time-efficient manner.