1.) Increased Student Engagement
2.) Improves Social Skills
3.) Positive Classrom Community
After teaching a lesson to your students, asking them a few review questions and using think-pair-share would be a good idea to help students retain the things that they just learned and even help out students who may not have understood it completely. You will ask the question, give the students time to think, and then let them talk with their shoulder partner or table group about their answer.
For this Kagan structure, you can use it with many things but for this example, we will be doing a discussion over a lesson. If you told your students to do stand up, hand up, pair up and tell three people three things that they learned from today's lesson, they would all stand, put their hand in the air, and find somebody with their hand in the air to tell three things that they learned. After pairing up, they can put their hand down but when they are trying to find somebody new, their hand goes back up to tell other know that they are also looking for somebody to talk to.
Each student will be given a card that has a question or problem on it and they will walk around and find somebody else to ask their question to. Once each partner has gotten the chance to quiz each other, they will trade their cards and keep walking around to quiz another person with their new card.
In this Kagan structure, the students will be given a question to answer (open-ended) and they will pass around one piece of paper and one pencil. One-by-one, they will write down an answer and then pass the paper and pencil to the next group member and they will write down their one answer and so on. This would really help with the students who love to do all of the answering and writing step back a little bit and get the other kids to participate more!