If you’re looking for the HOW of teaching,

you’ve found it!

Kagan…

Dynamic, Dialogic, Relational Pedagogy

It’s cooperative learning, but not as you know it

WHAT WE DO

Kagan NZ provides professional learning and development with a focus on Kagan Cooperative Learning, an approach that emphasises engagement, fosters social and communication skills, with high levels of positive interdependence, individual accountability, and equal participation, making it a game-changer in cooperative learning.

Reduce PLD overload with one multi-faceted intervention

Kagan is effective in enhancing learning outcomes across all curriculum areas and learning levels, and is truly a powerful, dynamic, dialogic and relational pedagogical approach.

"I’m interviewing staff and they say Kagan has changed their life"

PRINCIPAL, INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, MANAWATU

BRING IN KAGAN

  • Workshops

    Kagan offers workshops and trainings on cooperative learning, behaviour, leadership, & and most curriculum areas

    SEE ALL WORKSHOPS

  • Implementation

    To ensure uptake and implementation we offer in-class support which includes modelling, coaching, and resources…

    KAGAN PLD ROADMAP

  • Kāhui Ako

    Release the power of Kāhui Ako with Kagan - shared pedagogy for curriculum delivery, well-being & behaviour

    SEE WHY

  • Tōmua / PRTs

    New teachers benefit from the Kagan structured approach to class management, instruction, & classroom culture.

    LISTEN TO HAYLEY

“Our focus on the Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures has been fundamental in giving teachers the means to become more effective.”

— Peter Rubery, Principal, Fallibroome High School, UK

“…children aren’t born to learn in ways we want them to. Our brain is primarily a social machine and learns by watching, imitating and interacting.”

Hattie, J. & Yates, G. (2014). Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn. London: Routledge

"Jennie, I have to say...it's spine-tingling stuff"

HOF, SECONDARY SCHOOL, WAIKATO

The Research, Rationale and Impact for Kagan

  • “When teachers are effective in structuring group membership and tasks, and in training students in collaborative skills, the evidence shows positive gains in academic, social and attitudinal outcomes”

    -Quality Teaching for Diverse Learners in Schooling, BES., p.64

  • “As a Beginning Teacher, I have found the Kagan Cooperative Learning structures and strategies invaluable. Kagan was an integral part of my classroom set up and gave me the skills to manage behaviour positively. The children want to learn because they find class fun and exciting. The detailed and step by step training gave me the confidence to teach in all areas cooperatively. ”

    — LEONIE M., PCT, AUCKLAND

  • “…they need to be teaching this at teacher training as it makes everything so easy...”

    -B. Jones, Music Teacher, Manawatu

  • “Teaching includes specific training in collaborative group work...and students demonstrate effective co-operative and social skills that enable group processes to facilitate learning for all participants.”

    — Quality Teaching for Diverse Students in Schooling, BES., Appendix D

  • “Kagan really came out positively in the IEPs we just did, because our non-verbal ORS funded children had made such gains.”

    -T. Mackay, DP, Auckland

  • "Pedagogies built on these concepts are collaborative and reciprocal. Māori students benefit from a cooperative learning environment, and being able to discuss things with their peers in smaller groups facilitates Māori students’ learning"

    https://theeducationhub.org.nz/seven-principles-to-effectively-support-maori-students-as-maori/

We think we’re doing ‘it’…

The NZC - Key Competencies and Values

Kagan provides teachers with a way to seamlessly integrate the front end of the NZC - Values, and The Key Competencies. We develop relationships, social skills, and values, and break down the barriers between students and their ‘biases’. It is up to us to help our students see past the ‘exterior’ and find those ‘uncommon commonalities’., so they get to know each other at a deeper level.

but sometimes it’s a wish not a strategy.

Māori-Preferred Pedagogy

Tuakana Teina and Ako are embedded in Kagan Structures. There are strong links between Kagan and Teaching to the North-East (Dr Russell Bishop), and Dr Angus MacFarlane’s Educultural Wheel.

Kagan is the ‘how’ for implementing effective relational pedagogy in line with their philosophies.

These Year 10 students have never used Kagan before, yet here they are learning about homonyms, using Quiz-Quiz-Trade, one of our classbuilding structures. They are learning academic content at the same time as practicing social and communication skills such as learning to work with anyone, greetings, partings, coaching, and speaking clearly.

Kagan - powerful teaching, made simple.