gavinclowes7 days ago1 minMy 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...
gavinclowesMay 41 minKagan DoodlesI'm not the worlds best illustrator but I really do enjoy sketching 'Kagan Doodles'. Feel free to drag and drop these colourful...
gavinclowesMar 301 min9 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...
gavinclowesFeb 91 minTeambuilding QuestionsBuilding Classroom Community Bully Free Classrooms! Teachers who do more teambuilding obtain higher academic scores. Teambuilding creates...
gavinclowesJan 241 minTeammates ConsultTeammates consult is one of my favourite structures for problem solving. All students are given a copy of the same problem-solving...
gavinclowesJan 241 minProviding Sentence Stems with Kagan StructuresThroughout the school day, we ask students to respond to questions. We want students to verbalise their thoughts to a partner, teammate,...
gavinclowesDec 16, 20211 minRosendale: A Kagan Model SchoolIt 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...
gavinclowesDec 9, 20211 minChoose-a-Chip & Draw-a-ChipChoose-a-Chip and Draw-a-Chip are terrific structures for building communication skills and promoting more engagement with the...
gavinclowesOct 13, 20211 minCollective MemoryDo you want students to remember visual imagery in a fun way? Would you like your students to cooperate as they recreate maps, pictures,...
gavinclowesSep 14, 20211 minWhat If Students Have Nothing to Say?Many Kagan Structures are designed to promote student discussion. Kagan Structures encourage students to share information about the...
gavinclowesMar 31, 20211 minWho Goes FirstAny idea over-used loses interest. This list gives strategies for randomly selecting who goes first.
gavinclowesFeb 22, 20214 minKagan Cooperative Learning and its importance to me in Science Education: Andrew Ridley-EllisMy journey with Kagan Cooperative Learning started when I attended a ‘Brain Friendly Teaching and Learning’ training session in 2011...
gavinclowesFeb 2, 20214 minThe 2020-21 Pandemic and Kagan UK. A Personal Outpouring. Hi folks, Gavin here. With the addition of a blog to our new KaganUK website I thought I would give our many friends around the world an...
gavinclowesFeb 2, 20211 minKagan Cooperative Learning & HLTAs, Teaching Assistants, ParaprofessionalsAs a Kagan Trainer and Director of KaganUK I have had the privilege of bringing Dr. Spencer Kagan’s visionary ideas in the field of...
gavinclowesFeb 1, 20211 minThe Essential 5: A Starting Point for Kagan Cooperative LearningThe idea, which became the Essential 5, came from a great friend and fellow National Kagan Trainer, Rob Jutras, and of course from Dr....
gavinclowesNov 16, 20201 minBut What About My Shy Students?RICK DUVALL, PH.D. To cite this article: Duvall, R. But What About My Shy Students? Kagan Online Magazine, Issue #62. San Clemente, CA:...
gavinclowesSep 2, 20204 min10 Reasons to Use Heterogeneous TeamsIn the #Kagan approach to #cooperativelearning, we advocate that the base team’s students spend the majority of their time sitting with and
Gavin ClowesJul 24, 20201 minStructures Simply PutWhat Are Kagan Structures? Structures are simple, step-by-step instructional strategies. Most Kagan Structures are designed to increase...