Description

Boost academic achievement with Kagan Structures: simple, research-based instructional strategies that make learning more active and interactive. You learn easy ways to use Kagan Structures as a part of every lesson, creating greater engagement, deeper understanding of the content, improved retention and greater liking for class and content. You master the Seven Keys to Cooperative Learning including Team Formation, Teambuilding, Classbuilding, Management Techniques, Embedded Social Skills, PIES Principles, and Structures! If you want more fun in teaching, highly engaged students who love your classroom, and elevated test scores this workshop is for you!

You Will Learn

 

Learn Kagan Structures for Success

• Put the best research to practice in your classroom
• Use cutting-edge structures that promote success
• Boost your students’ achievement through proven, fun, motivating activities
• Spice up your existing lessons with new, engaging structures that make learning come alive
• Make learning more fun for you — and your students

 

Develop Your Students’ Social Skills

• Teach social skills in four easy steps
• Watch as your students work well together
• Help your students develop life-long social skills
• Practice positive social skills every day without taking time away from learning
• Promote positive behavior; prevent negative behavior

  Create a Cooperative, Caring Class

• Create a positive classroom environment
• Turn your classroom into a place where everyone wants to be—including you
• Improve your students’ liking for school, class, and each other, with class-building activities
• Make every day a rewarding experience
• Teach your students to care

 

Improve the Learning in Your Class

• Boost your students’ test scores
• Breathe life into your curriculum
• Make learning a fun and active process in your class
• Use classroom-proven structures to teach your curriculum more successfully
• Ensure success for all your students
• Promote higher-level thinking with any curriculum

   Manage Your Class for Success

• Create order, cooperation, and respect—easily
• Learn Hot Tips to prevent management problems in your classroom
• Organise your class to ensure student success
• Save valuable time with practical management ideas
• Solve discipline problems in your classroom
• Turn around your problem students
• Spend more time on learning and less on managing

Build Powerful Learning Teams

• Build Powerful Learning Teams
• Build successful cooperative teams every time
• Take advantage of the power of teamwork
• Save time with easy team-formation tips
• Create powerful learning teams in your class with teambuilding activities
• Keep teams together for the optimum time
• Give your students a skill they will need throughout life—working together successfully

What You will Learn

Structures for Success

• Put the best research into practice in your classroom
• Use cutting-edge structures that promote success
• Boost your students’ achievement through practical, classroom-proven structures
• Make your lessons come alive
• Use strategies to reach all your students
• Make learning more fun for everyone

Improve Your Class Climate

• Create a caring, cooperative classroom through energizing classbuilding activities
• Foster belonging for students of all ability levels
• Have fun with your students with indoor and outdoor cooperative sports and games
• Promote full-class cooperation with scoring and recognition systems
• Establish a classroom environment where everyone wants to be – including you

Manage Your Class for Success

• Make your room run smoothly, and your teaching day go easier with ‘Hot Tips’
• Engage students and avoid classroom disruptions
• Turn around your difficult students
• Go home with more energy after each day
• Reduce discipline problems
• Save time with proven management ideas
• Arrange your class to maximize success

Build Your Students’ Social Skills

• Teach your students the skills they really need to succeed in school and throughout their lives
• Promote caring, kindness, empathy, respect, and responsibility without separate lessons
• Develop your students’ character in the context of learning together
• Improve student relations in your class and beyond

Form Successful Learning Teams

• Create and manage teams in your class where Together Everyone Achieves More
• Learn a better approach than simple group work
• Transform your lessons into engaging, interactive learning events that guarantee success
• Release the power of true cooperative learning
• Apply the ‘7 Keys’ to make it work for you

Supercharge Learning

• Motivate your students to learn even the boring stuff, with structures that work
• Watch your students delve deeper into the curriculum than you ever thought possible
• Enhance your students’ mastery and achievement
• Implement incredible memory techniques
• Generate higher-level thinking among all students

Make Projects Cooperative

• Turn group projects into cooperative projects
• Hold all students accountable
• Engage ALL students

Description

Do you want to raise student achievement? Want to reach every student? Want a practical “Do-it-Tomorrow” guide that incorporates all the latest findings to motivate students? Experience the difference! Come learn Kagan Structures for Active Engagement at the most spectacular training of the year! If you have not attended a multi-day Kagan Institute before, this is the institute for you. Especially powerful for secondary teachers teaching in the block and for elementary teachers wanting to increase engagement and boost test scores. Learn how to build powerful learning teams in your classroom. Use the Kagan methods for team formation, teambuilding, classbuilding, management, mastery, higher-level thinking, and social skills. You’ll leave with dozens of Kagan Structures that are easy to use tomorrow and for a lifetime. Finally a class that has practical, hands-on ideas grounded in sound research and theory!

You Will Learn

Structures for Success

Description

This is the 5th day of the 5 day course.   Learn more Kagan Structures for Active Engagement at the most spectacular training of the year!  Especially powerful for secondary teachers teaching in the block and for elementary teachers wanting to increase engagement and boost test scores. Learn how to build powerful learning teams in your classroom. Use the Kagan methods for team formation, teambuilding, classbuilding, management, mastery, higher-level thinking, and social skills. You’ll leave with dozens of Kagan Structures that are easy to use tomorrow and for a lifetime. Finally a class that has practical, hands-on ideas grounded in sound research and theory!

You Will Learn

Structures for Success™