Cues,+Questions,+&+Advance+Organizers

Cues, Questions, & Advance Organizers

Read and Reflect

I use the K-W-L chart to help students focus their learning on the new topic. This is a helpful, structured approach for triggering prior information and also setting the stage for the new information to be learned. This usually gives my students’ more confidence to participate in group discussions once we have brainstormed about the new topic. I like to post my unit questions on a bulletin board in the classroom for my students’ to refer to while we are going through the chapter. I feel I can change my questions to elicit more of my students’ prior knowledge about the new material along with developing better inferential and analytical questions for learning new information with the class or with students completing research on their own.

The advance organizers are a great way to introduce a new unit and help students focus their learning. I find this strategy helpful when I’m covering new content that is not well organized in the textbook and to help organize information as it is being introduced. Advanced organizers can also be helpful for students with different learning styles. Rubrics are a good way to help students understand the expectations of an assignment, to help monitor their own strengths and weaknesses within the rubric, and to help guide them in seeking support from the teacher or other students during the assignment.

Apply and Reflect

I used Glogster in my American History class to introduce the American Industrial Revolution unit. The students liked the idea of an interactive poster on the internet. I purchased a license for the students to complete an assignment using Glogster. The students were required to pick an American inventor from that time in history and complete an interactive poster. The students are still in the process of working on the project.

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