Kagan Strategies

1. Kagan Strategies By Gil Trevino

2. Cooperative learning • Teaching strategy involving small team of students. • Usually students of varying ability are grouped together. • Teammates are responsible for all team members progress.

3. Why Use Cooperative learning? • Promote student learning • Increase student learning • Develop learning skills • Develop social skills • Enhance learning experience • Promote positive relationships.

4. How does cooperative learning help your classroom? • Promotes positive interdependence • Individual and group accountability • Supports success of group • Teaches communication skills to members • Promotes group processing

5. How can you incorporate cooperative learning? • Jigsaw • Groups are established • Each person is assigned unique material to learn • Students collaborate with other students with the same material. • Decisions are made on how to teach the subject. • “experts” teach other groups

6. Think-Pair-Share • Students think individually about a question. • Students share with partner and exchange thoughts • The pairs share responses with other pairs or the entire group.

7. Three Step Interview • Each member of a team chooses another member to be a partner • Individuals interview partners by asking clarifying questions. • Partners reverse roles • Members share their partner’s response to the team.

8. Round Robin – Brainstorming • Class is divided into small groups ( 4 to 6) • One person is appointed as the recorder • A question with many different answers is posed and time is given to think about answers. • Members of the team share responses in a round robin style • Recorder writes down responses

9. Three minute review • Teachers stop during a lecture or review and give teams three minutes to review what has been said. • Students may ask clarifying questions or answer questions.

10. Numbered Heads Together • Teams of four are established • Each member is given a number of 1, 2, 3 or 4 • Questions are asked of the group • Groups work together to answer the question • Teacher calls out number ( 2) and each person with that number is asked to give and answer.

11. Team Pair Solo • Students do problems as a team. • Students then do problems with a partner. • Students Do problems on their own

12. Circle the sage • Teacher calls on a students seeking which students have special knowledge of a subject. • The sages spread out in the room • Students surround the sage while the sage explains what they know while students listen, ask questions and take notes. • Students return to teams to share what they learned from the sage they received information from.

13. Partners • Class is divided into teams of four. • Partners move to one side of room • Half of each team is given an assignment to master and to be able to teach the other half. • Partners work to learn and can consult with other partners working on the same material. • Teams go back with each set of partners teaching the other set. • Partners quiz and tutor teammates.

15. More Ideas? • Consult you handout for more ideas in making cooperative learning groups. • Visit http://www.kaganonline.com for more ideas tips and training opportunities.