ADVANCE ORGANIZERS

Is a major instructional took proposed by Ausubel.

TWO BENEFITS:
(1) You will find it easier to connect new information with what you already know about the
topic, and (2) you can readily see how the concepts in a certain topic are related to each
other.
Advance Organizer helps you link the new learning to your existence scheme. A such advance
organizers facilitate learning by helping you organize and strengthen your cognitive structure.

TYPES OF ADVANCE ORGANIZERS

1. Expository – describes the new content.
2. Narrative– presents the new information in the form of a study to students.
3. Skimming– is done by looking over the new material to gain a basic overview.
4. Graphic organizer – visuals to set up or outlining the new information. This my include
pictographs, descriptive patterns, concept patterns, concept maps.

APPLICATION OF PRINCIPLES
1. The most general ideas of a subject should be presented first and then progressively
differentiated in terms of detail and specificity. He called this progressive
differentiation. According to Ausubel, the purpose of progressive differentiation is to
increase the stability and clarity of anchoring ideas.

2. Instructional materials should attempt to integrate new material with previously presented
information through comparisons and cross referencing of new and old ideas.