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The Integrative Model

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Designed to help students understand organized bodies of knowledge, topics thatcombine facts, concepts,generalizations,
and the relationships among them.
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Designed to provide students with practice in critical thinking

Planning includes identifying topics, specifying clear learning objectives, then preparing displays of data. Data
displays commonly exist in the form of matrices,but can include graphs, maps, and charts inpictorial form.

Involves four phases; open-ended phase, causal phase, hypothetical phase, and closure and application.

Compatible with cooperative activities, which can capitalize on the motivating benefits of social interaction.

Organizing info in pictorial form also increases itseffectiveness with students lacking experience with the topic, or
with learners who are not native English speakers

So what? What is important to understand about this?

Capitalizesonmotivatingeffectsofinvolvement,success,andchallenge.