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=Name of Unit:= Strategies for Declarative Knowledge Instruction Tekleab Elos Hailu Declarative knowledge also called as 'descriptive knowledge or propositional knowledge is "knowing that". It is about describing, explaining, summarizing and listing. Declarative knowledge is a critical part of what we learn throughout life. Although equated with rote learning, rote learning is not the right strategy to learn declarative learning. Declarative knowledge is used in: Concept Learning Procedures Psychomotor Problem Solving E.g. in the recall of list of steps Types of Declarative Knowledge: Gagné & Briggs identified three types 1. Labels & Names: e.g. to learn foreign vocabulary 2. Facts & Lists: e.g. Prof. Lohr taught 15 yrs at UNC. Taught ET 502, ET 602, ET 695, ET 702 3. Organized Discourse: e.g. thread of meaning through a passage of prose. How is Declarative knowledge Stored? 1. Propositional Network: e.g. The food Susan brought was delicious. Susan brought food. The food was delicious 2. As a diagram/illustration. e.g. Mathematic expression, musical notation 3. As schema: e.g. clusters of related ideas
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How is Declarative Knowledge Learned: 1. Through Linking with existing Kowledge: To be easily learned, recalled and used; declarative knowledge must be tied to the learner's previous knowledge. 2. By Organizing: e.g. 7022441920. This phone number can be organized as 702 244 1920. And this makes it easy to remember. 3. By Elaborating: This elaboration of information e.g. filling in gaps, making inferences, imagining examples.

Tropical Rainforest** Scenario 1. Evergreen forest Scenario 2. Movement is almost impossible within it Scenario 3. It has three levels When there is suneshine you see plants to be green. In the tropics there is always sunshine and then the forest is evergreen || Option 2
 * Write three learner responses to your story scenario:
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When it is always under sun shine plants grow dense and movement in the forest becomes impossible. || Option 3 The plant growth creates a canopy of three levels as undergrowth, middle level and very tall trees. ||

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