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An Instructional that helps students understand organized bodies of knowledge.

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Details Identify Topics: generally an organized body of knowledge such as factors leading to World War II. Specify Learning Objectives: Decide what you wish students to understand about the topics. Teach facts, procedural skills, concepts, generalizations as well as relationships among all of those things. Structure Content: make sure all of the content is well organized. Topics are not as well defined, which, makes them more difficult to organize. Combining structures to organize the lessons is okay to do. Prepare Lessons Introductions: Introduce it in a way that is attraction and that transitions smoothly from what was previously being talked about. Create Advance Organizers: verbal/written statement at the start of the lesson that link it to the students prior knowledge and the previews the lesson.

Details Review and Introduction: review prior knowledge using the advance organizer. Presenting extra questions to help focus the students on the lesson can also be helpful. Presentation: present the information to the students that you want them to know. The information should explain a part or parts of the organized body of knowledge that is the basis of your lesson. Comprehension Monitoring: ask questions to make sure that students are understanding the knowledge that you are presenting to them. Integration: Give the students even more in depth information and ask them to integrate the new information from this phase with the information presented in the previous phase. This is ongoing throughout the rest of the lesson. Closure: review and summarize the information learned in the lesson. This is especially important if you covered a large amount of information in your lecture.

Assessment
Details Any type of test, multiple choice, short answer, fill in the blank, essay, pop quizzes (especially effective if it seems like the students are not paying attention!) -However, more open-ended tests (like essay or drawing diagrams) would probably be better so the students could show their understanding of relationships. -During the lessons, informally ask questions to make sure the students are paying attention and understanding. -in the integration phase, students should be able to combine the different pieces of information that has been presented to them.

Motivation

Details -Lectures can provide a plethora of information that it might take students hours to find on their own. -Students learn to use a variety of sources to integrate information -Students are exposed to different point to view other than their own. -can be helpful and enjoyable to students who hate interaction with other students and the teacher. -can be enjoyable to students who do not prefer active learning and would rather be passive learners. -one of the most difficult models to maintain student motivation because for most of the lesson, they are merely passive learners.