KAGAN STRUCTURES FOR SECONDARY SOCIAL SCIENCES

Total Engagement with Kagan Structures!

2 Day workshop

Whether you teach New Zealand or World History, Geography, Civics, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, or Psychology, you will increase engagement in your classes when you start using powerful Kagan Structures.

Foster participation, excitement, and accountability. Learn different ways to organise your classroom, and a dozen management tips!

Today’s students crave a high level of stimulation, and Kagan Structures are the solution. With Kagan structures in place, you tap students’ intrinsic motivation to explore their world. Have students experience the power of participatory democracy with cooperative decision making.

Make history come alive by unleashing the power of student-to-student interaction. When you use Kagan’s active learning strategies, your students learn more and enjoy class more. Teaching becomes a pleasure.

Workshop Highlights

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

  • 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 Secondary Social Sciences Workbook

  • “Exceptional. In my 22 years in education, this is one of the best trainings I've ever been involved with. Definitely can utilize strategies easily and right away and grow from there.”

    —AMY CROXFORD, 6-8TH GRADE SPED 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

“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