Kagan

Mara Olga Alfaro #1

Hillary Mendoza #8
Lourdes Ramrez #14

 Kagan Structure
Dr. Kagan believes that it is not what you have to teach, but how you
teach it. He calls this Kagan Structures. The tradiHonal teacher centered
classroom is replace with strategies that are engaging and student
centered. Basically, structures are a generic, content free, set of
techniques for organizing content.

Kagan's Structures are in alignment with

 Some of the documented posi8ve outcomes

include

 Coopera8ve Learning
Teaching strategy in which small teams of students share dierent
levels of abiliHes, and use a variety of learning acHviHes.

Mutual Benets

Gain
knowledge

Group Support

 Five Elements of Coopera8ve Learning

PosiHve
Interdepen
dence

Face to
face
interacHon

Individual

Group Processing

Interpersonal and
small group skills

 Coopera8ve Learning strategies

Round Robin
Present a category (such as "Names of Mammals") for discussion. Have students take turns
going around the group and naming items that t the category.
2. Write around
Give a sentence starter (for example: If you give an elephant a cookie, he's going to ask for...).
Ask all students in each team to nish that sentence. Then, they pass their paper to the right,
read the one they received, and add a sentence to that one.
3: Numbered Heads Together
Ask students to number o in their teams from one to four. Announce a quesHon and a Hme
limit. Students put their heads together to come up with an answer. Call a number and ask all
students with that number to stand and answer the quesHon.

 Video

h^ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHyQXAz5-T4

 References
h^p://www.learningtolearn.sa.edu.au/fel/les/links/
3b_cooperaHve_learning_1.pdf
h^p://help4teachers.com/MarthasResearch.htm