Kagan Structures for Cooperative Learning & Active Engagement ...

Kagan Structures for
Cooperative Learning &
Active Engagement Institute
Lakeland, FL • February 22, 2012
For Grades K –12
Structures for Success
• Put the best research into practice
in your classroom
• Use cutting-edge structures
that promote success
• Boost your students’ achievement through
practical, classroom-proven structures
• Make your lessons come alive
• Use strategies to reach all your students
• Make learning more fun for everyone
Improve Your Class Climate
• Create a caring, cooperative classroom through
energizing classbuilding activities
• Foster belonging for students of all ability levels
• Have fun with your students with indoor and
outdoor cooperative sports and games
• Promote full-class cooperation with scoring
and recognition systems
• Establish a classroom environment where
everyone wants to be—including you
Manage Your Class for Success
• Make your room run smoothly, and your
teaching day go easier with ‘Hot Tips’
• Engage students and avoid classroom
disruptions
• Turn around your difficult students
• Go home with more energy after each day
• Reduce discipline problems
• Save time with proven management ideas
• Arrange your class to maximize success
Build Your Students’ Social Skills
• Teach your students the skills they really need
to succeed in school and throughout their lives
• Promote caring, kindness, empathy, respect,
and responsibility without separate lessons
• Develop your students’ character in the
context of learning together
• Improve student relations in your class
and beyond
Form Successful Learning Teams
• Create and manage teams in your class where
Together Everyone Achieves More
• Learn a better approach than simple group work
• Transform your lessons into engaging, interactive
learning events that guarantee success
• Release the power of true cooperative learning
• Apply the ‘7 Keys’ to make it work for you
Supercharge Learning
• Motivate your students to learn even the
boring stuff, with structures that work
• Watch your students delve deeper into the
curriculum than you ever thought possible
• Enhance your students’ mastery and achievement
• Implement incredible memory techniques
• Generate higher-level thinking among
all students
Make Projects Cooperative
• Turn group projects into cooperative projects
• Hold all students accountable
• Engage ALL students

Kagan Structures
for Cooperative Learning &
Active Engagement Institute
Lakeland, FL • February 22, 2012
For Grades K–12
Location
Jim Miles Professional
Development Center
Lakeland, FL
Time
8:00 am Check-in
8:30 am –3:45 pm
Participants Rave!
“All of the content is interesting, relevant, and valuable. I am
so excited about all of the new wonderful ideas. I appreciated
the research to back it up and the helpful ways to remember
everything.”
— Katrina J. Burse, Teacher, Grade 1
“Excellent, practical content provided. Everything taught this
week can be applied to everything I teach. I’m ready to go
with it the day I walk in the room, no previous prep time is
needed.”
— Jan P. May, History & Reading Teacher, Grade 5
“Amazing and powerful! I can’t wait to go back and use this
with all of my students this fall. I truly believe that I will see
a major difference in my classes.”
—Jessica Tenney, Science, Grades 9–12
Fees
To Register
This workshop is offered at no cost to you!
Schools will be responsible for providing
their own substitute teachers.
All Participants Receive
• Please visit the PDS Scheduler to register for this workshop.
• Use your Polk-ID (firstname.lastname). If you’re a non-employee,
continue to login as you always have in the past.
• Select the Professional Learning Category.
• Choose the Kagan track.
• Module name = Kagan
• Click [When and where can I take this class?]
• Select Section 14482
• Select [Register Me].
• Kagan Cooperative Learning Book
and Course Workbook
• Certificate of Completion
• Option to shop at an onsite book and product display
• Space is limited, so don’t delay!
• Polk County Schools’ Professional Development System
“...lifelong learners in a changing world.”
WS 13717
Questions?
• Contact Joanna Johnson at Joannal.johnson@polk-fl.net