KAGAN STRUCTURES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING

Kagan Structures for Interaction, Comprehension, and Fluency!

2 Day workshop

In many foreign language classrooms, students learn about a foreign language, but they don’t actually acquire it. Fluency develops when students have multiple opportunities to use the language in meaningful ways.

In this eye-opening workshop, you learn practical teaching tools to dramatically increase both language production and meaningful language input. You create full language engagement in a cooperative, communicative, and supportive context.

Kagan Structures allow a safe context for language learning, multiply opportunities for language production, and increase the amount of comprehensible input. Within this context, your students show remarkable acceleration of receptive and productive language skills.

As you revitalise your teaching through easy-to-learn, easy-to-use Kagan Structures, your students develop increased fluency—they not only learn about the language, they acquire the language.

Workshop Highlights

  • Transform your classes from teacher-centred to student-centred

  • Learn powerful and proven structures for secondary social studies

  • Create total engagement through multi-structural lessons

  • Move beyond textbooks with highly structured student dialogue

  • Teach students to analyse and describe events like never before

  • Experience first-hand how to manage and use team and pair structures

  • Make the social sciences come alive with unforgettable, interactive structures

With your attendance, you will receive:

  • Kagan Structures for Foreign Language Learners Workbook

  • “This workshop was exactly what I was hoping it would be! I got out of it what I was hoping to – nothing left undone.”

    —ANGELA SOPER, TEACHER

  • “The content was engaging, relevant, and helpful! I have tools that I can use in my classroom tomorrow and feel comfortable doing so.”

    —JOHANNA YELDELL 5TH GRADE TEACHER

  • “This Kagan training was eye-opening and inspiring. I have been teaching for a decade, yet I came out of this workshop with strategies to ensure cooperative learning, rather than group work, that I can immediately put to use in my classroom come Monday.”

    —HILLARY REISIG, SECONDARY LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHER

  • “This is my second Kagan Workshop, and I love coming to them so that I leave with new ways I can engage my students. I wish all educators had the chance to attend a Kagan Workshop! Classes and learning would be so positively affected!”

    - DUSTIN BOWLIN, SECONDARY ENGLISH TEACHER

  • “Very applicable to my class! I can use every single structure and can pick my top focus structures to start with my upcoming class. She changed my mind about Kagan and I can't wait to see my kids benefit!”

    -SHANNON MALOY, 7TH GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHER

“In the classroom it is the teacher who ultimately makes the choice of how much students feel included or excluded. When we choose not to make concerted efforts to make our classrooms more inclusive, we have still made a choice. It is a choice to default to traditional individualistic and competitive learning that results in many students feeling disconnected.”

— Miguel Kagan, Kagan USA