Advanced Organizer Drawbacks:
Advanced Organizer Strengths:
1. Advance organizers can only be beneficial if the students comprehend the previous taught topic.
2. Students may see advanced organizers as their main information reference for the topic being taught, which can lead to less note taking.
3. It is not a teaching tool that can always be used for every topic.
1. Advance organizers are more beneficial for learners who lack prior knowledge on the subject matter.
2. It helps the teacher to know where a student is at on the subject matter before teaching a lesson.
3. Advance organizers creates good visual for the students to use while learning.
Graphic Organizer vs. Advanced Organizer
Sources:
Advance Organizers. (n.d.). - KNILT. Retrieved
September 04, 2013, from http://tccl.rit.albany.edu/knilt/index.php/Advance_Organizers
Advance Organizers | CIDDE. (n.d.). Advance Organizers
CIDDE. Retrieved September 4, 2013, from http://www.cidde.pitt.edu/using-advance-organizers
A graphic organizer can be used as an advanced organizer, as long as it is used in the correct sequence of the subject matter. The graphic organizer must be used before the actual lesson is taught. Examples of graphic organizers are Venn Diagrams, webs, etc. An example of an Advanced Organizer that is not a Graphic Organizer is the
K-W-L chart.
Advanced Organizer Summary
- Activates prior knowledge as well as to connect information between two different topics.
- Helps link previous learned information to new concepts while using a organized method.
- Used before a new topic is taught. Using a advance organizer helps students to feel more comfortable going into a new lesson because they are able to see similarities between new and old idea.
- Overall, Advanced Organizers help the students process, remember, and integrate old information with new knowledge.
Advanced Organizers
Kenzie Wolffis and Amelia Sheers