ACTIVE LEARNING TECHNIQUE 9Advance Organizers

Complexity involved in  
Planning MODERATE
Developing Materials MODERATE
Implementing in Class LOW

Description and Purpose

An Advance Organizer is a tool that can help professors introduce a topic and provide students with a structure for viewing information they are about to learn. When using an Advance Organizer, the professor presents students with an organizational structure before formal instruction. Students fill in the structure while learning new information.

Advance Organizers help professors introduce a new topic. Moreover, they serve as a conceptual bridge between old and new information. They also help to establish a task and orient the learner to it by providing organizational ...

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