Kagan

Mara Olga Alfaro #1

Hillary Mendoza #8
Lourdes Ramrez #14

Kagan Structure
Dr. Kagan believes that it is not what you have to teach,
but how you teach it. He calls this Kagan Structures. The
traditional teacher centered classroom is replace with
strategies that are engaging and student centered.
Basically, structures are a generic, content free, set of
techniques for organizing content.

Kagan's Structures are in alignment with

Some of the documented positive

outcomes include

Cooperative Learning
Teaching strategy in which small teams of students
share different levels of abilities, and use a variety of
learning activities.
Mutual Benefits

Gain
knowled
ge

Group
Support

Five Elements of Cooperative

Learning

Positive
Interdependen
ce

Face to face
interaction

Group
Processing

Individual

Interpersonal
and small
group skills

Cooperative Learning strategies

Round Robin
Present a category (such as "Names of Mammals") for discussion. Have students
take turns going around the group and naming items that fit the category.
2. Write around
Give a sentence starter (for example: If you give an elephant a cookie, he's going
to ask for...). Ask all students in each team to finish that sentence. Then, they pass
their paper to the right, read the one they received, and add a sentence to that
one.
3: Numbered Heads Together
Ask students to number off in their teams from one to four. Announce a question
and a time limit. Students put their heads together to come up with an answer. Call
a number and ask all students with that number to stand and answer the question.

Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHyQXAz5
-T4

References
http://www.learningtolearn.sa.edu.au/tfel/files/links/3b_
cooperative_learning_1.pdf
http://help4teachers.com/MarthasResearch.htm