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What Is Kagan? - This is a great short video to show how Kagan can transform your classroom.  Kagan rocks!!

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This Padlet is about Kagan's Stuctures .

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Spencer Kagan was born in 1944 in California.

Dr. Spencer Kagan is world renowned author and keynote speaker in the field of education  and psychology.

Kagan is a clinical psychologist and full-time professor of psychology and education at the university of California Berkly.

Kagan has two honorary doctorate degrees and speaks English and Spanish.

His main belief about behaviors is that each should be stables he'd by using structures in order to prevent and redirect misbehavior.

He developed Brain-Based, Cooperative Learning, Multiple Intelligence Structures like Numbered Heads Together and Timed Pair Share, which now and today are used in classroom world wide.

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Structures are simple, step-by-step instructional strategies. Most Kagan Structures are designed to increase student engagement and cooperation.
Dr. Kagan began researching cooperative learning in 1968 and has become an international expert on the topic. He provides workshops and keynote speeches in 20 countries and is in high demand at both the national and international levels.

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He developed :

The popular brain-based

Cooperative learning

Multiple intelligence

Cooperative Learning

The basic principles of good cooperative learning are that:

1) The learning task promotes teamwork and students experience themselves as being on the same side;
2) Each student is held accountable for their individual contribution;
3) Students participate about equally; and
4) Many students are engaged at once.

How do Kagan Structures align with multiple intelligences and brain science?

There are many structures. Some are designed to engage the different ways students are smart; some are actually designed to engage different parts of the brain. Active brain imaging demonstrates that the brains of students are more engaged when working with each other than when working alone. This partly explains the greater gains obtained when we use the interactive structures

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In pairs, students alternate generating brief oral responses.

Examples:
• List adjectives to describe the character.
• List inert elements.
• Share steps of the experiment.
• Describe an event from the story.

In pairs, students share with a partner for a predetermined time while the partner listens. Then partners switch roles.

Examples:
• What is the key thing that you learned?
• What is one literary technique you plan to use in your writing and how will you use it?

In teams, students take turns responding orally.

Examples:
• What makes a good listener?
• List objects that float?
• What clubs or societies are you a member of?
• What is one of your favorite movies?

Partners take turns, one solving a problem while the other coaches. Then partners switch roles.

• Useful for any process or procedure with a definite right/wrong.
• Solve multi-step word problems in math.
• Change each decimal into a simplified fraction.

Students stand up, put their hand up and quickly find a partner with whom to share or discuss.

This structure is perfect for classbuilding, processing and reviewing information, energizing the class, forming random pairs or teams, lesson starts or wraps.

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Kagan's FREE Articles - A Brief History of Kagan Structures

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Read Dr. Spencer Kagans provocative and insightful articles on Kagan Structures and how they have the power to transform education. Cooperative learning, multiple intelligences, the brain, character development, Win-Win Discipline.