Chapter4

Cues, Questions and Advance Organizers
//"The instructional strategy cues, questions, and advance organizers focuses on enhancing students' ability to retrieve, use, and organize information about a topic."// (p.73)

Generatizations from McREL's Research
1. Cues, questions, and advance organizers should focus on what is important rather than what is unusual. 2. "Higher-level" questions and advance organizers produce deeper learning than "lower-level" questions and advance organizers. 3. Advance organizers are most useful with information that is not well organized. 4. Different types of advance organizers produce different results. 5. Waiting briefly before accepting responses from students has the effect of increasing the depth of students' answers. 6. Questions are effective learning tools even when asked before a learning experience. (p.74)

Ch 4 Examples

 * Rubrics are good advance organizers - create them collaboratively using Google Docs & Spreadsheets (take a [|Google Docs tour] Google Docs tour)
 * From "Organizing and Brainstorming Software" p. 77 Use [|de.licio.us] to direct students to web resources they can use with an advance organizer. ([|See an example] of an advance organizer made with bubbl.us)
 * Example of a [|linkroll from de.licio.us]

Ch 4 Web Resources
An article by Jamie McKenzie that examined questions http://www.fno.org/feb01/pl.html Applying Blooms's Taxonomy http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm For the Best Answers, Ask Tough Questions http://www.joycevalenza.com/questions.html