Question or Topic:

“Kagan Strategies” 

What:

Kagan Structures are highly interactive learning strategies that involve students working cooperatively in pairs and in teams to improve learning and deepen academic learning and develop essential social skills.

Why:

Cooperative Learning has been the focus of decades of research with over 1,000 empirical studies. It has been one of the most extensively researched innovations in education of all time and these structures have many positive benefits for students.

The research unequivocally shows that there is a direct connection between student participation, engagement, communication, and subsequent learning.

The primary benefits of cooperative learning, documented by hundreds and hundreds of research studies, include increased academic achievement, improved social skills, and social relations, improved thinking skills, reduced discipline problems, acquisition of leadership and employability skills, improved self-esteem, improved student interest in school, and a reduction of the gap between high and low achieving students — not by bringing the high achievers down, but by bringing the low achievers up.

How/Resources:

• Handbook - Conference Day 2022

• Kagan Strategies Video - YouTube

• Rally Robin #4 - see how-to use this structure below

• Rally Table #5 - see how-to use this structure below

• Rally Coach #6 - see how-to use this structure below

• Talking Chip #9 - see how-to use this structure below

• Showdown #12 - see how-to use this structure below