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Dinesh Kumar, Lovely Professional University Unit–18: Advance Organizer Model

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Unit–18: Advance Organizer Model

CONTENTS
Objectives

Introduction
18.1 Main Elements of Advance Organizer Teaching Model

18.2 Summary
18.3 Keywords

18.4 Review Questions

18.5 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, students will be able to:
• Understand main elements of advance organizer teaching model.

Introduction

David Ausubel is the originator of Advance organizer teacher model. This model is based on verbal
learning and information processing. David Ausubel has been highly impressed by Bruner’s Academic
Discipline Concept. By presenting the details of the model, Bhushan and Varshney (1994) says, “In
this model, we develop knowledge in front of students by organizing them in such a way that they can
learn new knowledge with the meaningful method by interacting with the knowledge they already
kept in their mind. Meaningful knowledge means that the knowledge learned can be used in other
circumstances i.e several problem of his daily life can be solved in a simple and natural manner based
on the previous experience. According to this principle, teacher presents a subject matter related to
concepts in an organized form in such a way that subject matter is easily understandable to student.

18.1 Main Elements of Advance Organizer Teaching Model

(1) Focus—Main focuses of this model are—
1. To make aware of the concepts and facts.
2. To establish relations in knowledge.
3. To create interesting and meaningful text.

(2) Syntax—In syntax, firstly actions are normally present for meaningful sense of text, then it is presented

in a specific form in order to learn the text. Three main process are included in this type of model
1. Presentation of advance organizer.

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