Kagan Cooperative Learning
Date: July 8-11, 2024
Location: Bishop Professional Learning Center
Title: Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures
Kagan Structures for Engagement and Achievement! Kagan is all about engagement! Central to all Kagan workshops are Kagan Structures. You've probably heard of some popular Kagan Structures including Numbered Heads Together, Timed Pair Share, RallyRobin, and Quiz-Quiz-Trade. Those Kagan Structures, and many more, are now used world-wide from nursery to adult education, in all academic subject areas to boost student engagement and learning.
Kagan Structures produce revolutionary positive results. Teachers, schools, and Trusts now use Kagan Structures to increase academic achievement, improve race relations, enhance self-esteem, create a more harmonious classroom climate, reduce discipline problems, and develop students' social skills and character virtues. How do such simple little teaching strategies have such a profoundly positive effect on so many dimensions of learning? Easy. It's all about engagement!
When students are actively engaged, they pay attention, they're motivated, they learn more, and the learning sticks. The biggest difference between the Kagan approach and teaching using traditional methods is the ability to engage every student. Traditional classroom teaching captures the minds and attention of some students, but not all. Good teachers engage more students. But even the best teachers who use traditional instruction don't require every student to participate. With traditional instruction, there is always a subset of students who fall through the cracks. We're all too familiar with the results: a widening gap between high achievers and low achievers.
Link to the Kagan website.