Advance organizers are introductory materials that provide a broad context or framework to help relate new concepts to what has already been learned. They introduce new material at a higher level of abstraction to help facilitate learning by giving students an "anchoring idea" to attach the new information to. Examples of advance organizers include pictures, titles, reviews of prior concepts, videos, graphs, or narratives that are presented before the main learning task.

1. Advance Organizer entails the use of introductory
materials with a high level of generality that
introduce new material and facilitate learning by
providing an "anchoring idea" to which the new idea
can be attached. Cognitive theorists believe that it is
essential to relate new knowledge to existing
information learned. Teachers can facilitate learning
by organizing information presented so that new
concepts are easily relatable to concepts already
learned. Examples of devices that may be used
include: pictures, titles of stories, reviews of
previously learned concepts, short video
segments, a paradigm, a grammar rule, etc.
Some principles
1. "Before we can present new material
effectively, we must increase the stability and
clarity of our student's structures."
2. "The sequence of the curriculum is organized
so that each successive learning is carefully
related to what has been learned before."
3. Ausubel describes advance organizers as
"introductory material presented ahead of the
learning task and at a higher level of abstraction
and inclusiveness than the learning task itself".

2. 4. Examples of Advance organizers
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Expository
simply describes the new content
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Narrative
presents new information in a story format
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Skimming
skimming material before reading can be a powerful
organizer
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Graphic organizers
effective with all types of organizers: pictographs,
descriptive patterns, concept patterns, etc.
David Ausubel says,
"If I had to reduce all of educational
psychology to just one principle, I would
say this: The most important single factor
influencing learning is what the learner
already knows. Ascertain this and teach him
accordingly."
Organizers act as a subsuming bridge between new
learning material and existing related ideas.

3. Definitions
1. A "statement of inclusive concepts to introduce
and sum up material that follows" (Woolfolk, 2001).
2. Cognitive instructional strategy used to promote
the learning and retention of new information
(Ausubel, 1960).
3. It is a method of bridging and linking old
information with something new.
4. An advance organizer is information that is
presented prior to learning and that can be used by
the learner to organize and interpret new incoming
information (Mayer, 2003).