EDUC160: Facilitating Learner-Centered Teaching
Gagne’s Conditions of
Learning
Objectives
• Analyze situations applying Gagne’s Conditions
of Learning
• Make a simple lesson outline (teaching
sequence) using Gagne’s instruction events.
Gagne’s Conditions of Learning
•It deals with all aspects of learning
but the focus of the theory is on
intellectual skills
Gagne’s Conditions of Learning
•In Robert Gagne’s view, effective
instruction must reach beyond
traditional learning theories and
provide support to transition from
simple to complex skills, thus using an
hierarchical model for learning
Gagne’s Principles
• Different instruction is required for different
learning outcomes.
• Learning hierarchies define what intellectual
skills are to be learned and a sequence of
instruction
• Events of learning operate on the learner ways
that constitute the conditions of learning
Nine Events of Instruction
• Gaining attention (reception)
• Informing learners of the objective (expectancy)
• Stimulating recall of prior learning (retrieval)
• Presenting the stimulus (selective perception)
• Providing learning guidance (semantic
encoding)
Nine Events of Instruction
• Eliciting performance (responding)
• Providing feedback (reinforcement)
• Assessing performance (retrieval)
• Enhancing retention and transfer
(generalization)
Individual Activity
• Posted already in your Schoology –
Deadline (May 17, 2024)
Group Activity
As a group, choose a topic with a particular
lesson objective in any grade level. Make a
teaching sequence applying Gagne’s nine
instructional events. Follow the format used in
your individual activity posted for your Group
Activity.
Have this checked by your instructor on
Thursday, May 9, 2024
EDUC160: Facilitating Learner-Centered Teaching
Ausubel’s Meaningful
Verbal Learning /
Subsumption Theory
Objectives
• Analyse situations applying Ausubel’s
Subsumption Theory
• Use advance graphic organizers for a topic
presentation
David Ausubel’s Subsumption Theory
•Main theme = Knowledge is
hierarchicaly organized
Focus of Subsumption Theory
•The most important factor
influencing learning is the quantity,
clarity and organization of the
learner’s present knwoeldge.
(cognitive knowledge)
Focus of Subsumption Theory
•The way to strengthen the
students’ cognitive structure is by
using advance organizers
Meaningful Learning can take place in
four processes:
•Derivative Subsumption – describes
the situation in which the new
information you learn is an
example of a concept that you
already learn
Meaningful Learning can take place in
four processes:
•Correlative Subsumption – in order
to accommodate new information,
you have to change or expand
informations
Meaningful Learning can take place in
four processes:
•Superordinate learning – child
already knew a lot of examples,
but did not know the concept itself
until it was taught to her.
Meaningful Learning can take place in
four processes:
•Combinatorial learning – this is
when newly acquired knowledge
combines with prior learning to
enrich the understanding of both
concepts
Advance Organizers
• It is a major instructional tool proposed by
Ausubel
• Benefits: (1) you will find it easier to
connect new information with what you
already know; (2) readily see how the
concepts in a certain topic are related to
each other.
Types of Advance Organizers
•Expository – describes new content
•Narrative
•Skimming
•Graphic organizers
Group Activity
Using the topic, grade level, and subject in
your prior activity, make an advance graphic
organizer of your choice to present the topic
that you have used in your prior activity.
