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gavinclowes
- Jul 20, 2023
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The Power of Pair Work
Three Types of Pair Structures to Elevate Student Learning Cooperative Learning created an instructional revolution. Stacks of studies...
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gavinclowes
- Mar 24, 2023
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Good Classmates/Team-mates are Made, Not Born
Henry Ford once said, “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” I think it is safe...
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Vern Minor
- Mar 1, 2023
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Are Our Children in Jeopardy?
I suspect all of us have watched the game show Jeopardy! at some point in our lives. Let’s play one fictional round of Jeopardy!....
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gavinclowes
- Oct 28, 2022
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Why Teams of Four Are Best!
What is the best team size and team composition? Teams of four are best for Cooperative learning because of the following two main...
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gavinclowes
- Oct 20, 2022
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Seventeen Pros of Kagan Cooperative Learning
Over 500 research studies back the conclusion that cooperative learning produces gains across all content areas, all age groups/levels,...
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gavinclowes
- Sep 14, 2022
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Experience the Kagan Difference: Simple instructional strategies that transform any lesson!
Kagan is different. How? Kagan-UK trains thousands of teachers how to use Kagan Structures, a unique set of instructional strategies...
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gavinclowes
- Aug 1, 2022
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A Dozen Tools to Foster Growth Mindset and Prevent Learned Helplessness
Growth Mindset and Kagan Cooperative Learning.
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gavinclowes
- May 25, 2022
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The Refocus Signal: Making it Work!
Managing noise during independent work is quite different than noise management in the Cooperative Learning class. In cooperative...
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gavinclowes
- May 20, 2022
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Alertness Breaks
Are you interested in a quick, effective way to perk up your learners? Do you want to make exploring your topic more fun and interactive?...
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gavinclowes
- May 13, 2022
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My Teachers Attended Training: Now What?
Top 5 List for SLT I remember asking myself this same question: "My Teachers attended training: Now what? " I knew low student engagement...
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gavinclowes
- May 4, 2022
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Kagan Doodles
I'm not the worlds best illustrator but I really do enjoy sketching 'Kagan Doodles'. Feel free to drag and drop these colourful...
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gavinclowes
- Mar 30, 2022
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9 Tips on How to Get Your Lesson Off to a Great Start.
Every lesson deserves a great start, get the start right and the rest of the lesson is that much more successful. Here are 9 easy tips to...
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gavinclowes
- Feb 9, 2022
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Teambuilding Questions
Building Classroom Community Bully Free Classrooms! Teachers who do more teambuilding obtain higher academic scores. Teambuilding creates...
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gavinclowes
- Jan 24, 2022
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Teammates Consult
Teammates consult is one of my favourite structures for problem solving. All students are given a copy of the same problem-solving...
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gavinclowes
- Jan 24, 2022
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Providing Sentence Stems with Kagan Structures
Throughout the school day, we ask students to respond to questions. We want students to verbalise their thoughts to a partner, teammate,...
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gavinclowes
- Dec 16, 2021
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Rosendale: A Kagan Model School
It has now been a few years since Rosendale Primary School became a Kagan Model School. Yet with all that has happened in the world in...
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gavinclowes
- Dec 9, 2021
- 1 min
Choose-a-Chip & Draw-a-Chip
Choose-a-Chip and Draw-a-Chip are terrific structures for building communication skills and promoting more engagement with the...
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gavinclowes
- Oct 13, 2021
- 1 min
Collective Memory
Do you want students to remember visual imagery in a fun way? Would you like your students to cooperate as they recreate maps, pictures,...
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gavinclowes
- Sep 14, 2021
- 1 min
What If Students Have Nothing to Say?
Many Kagan Structures are designed to promote student discussion. Kagan Structures encourage students to share information about the...
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