Kagan Cooperative Learning

by Spencer Kagan

Dramatically increase student learning. Transform your classroom and school into a cooperative and caring learning environment. How? Easy! With Kagan Cooperative Learning. After decades of training and working with hundreds of thousands of teachers, Kagan has refined and perfected the most widely used and respected form of cooperative learning ever - Kagan Cooperative Learning. This classic best seller is your definitive guide to everything Kagan. Learn the practical and proven Kagan Structures, including Numbered Heads Together, RoundTable, and Three-Step Interview direct from the man who invented cooperative learning structures. Receive ready-to-do teambuilding and classbuilding activities to make your class click. Discover hundreds of helpful management tips, teacher-friendly activities and forms, and up-to-date research on proven methods. Hear how schools have used Kagan Cooperative Learning to boost academics, close the achievement gap, improve student relations, and create a more kind and caring school community. This book is your blueprint to full student engagement!

Genres: Education, Teaching, Professional Development, Nonfiction

450 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[I Contain · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received this book after a workshop and have been nothing but happy with it. Strangely enough my goal at my summative conference last year was to get my kids more engaged, so this workshop helped me to be able to do that because it was all about Dr. Kagan's strategies.

The book is full of helpful research, instructions for the strategies themselves as well as implementing them, and great reproducible to help with the implementation of Kagan's system. I can't wait to try it this coming year!

[Leanna Aker · Rating 5 out of 5]

I keep coming back to this book for practice ideals.... mental stamina, clear reason. Whether you are a newbie or a veteran teacher looking to improve cooperative group work in your classroom, this is the book for you. I have a newer edition than this one, and secondary teachers might flip through the book thinking it looked too elementary in focus....it isn't. I'm a 9th grade science teacher and find that the protocols are right on point. While there may be a couple of things that I wouldn't use, the vast majority can be used as is, with a few things being modified in a secondary setting.

[Jane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cooperative Learning is a resource for all teachers to bring cooperative learning techniques into the classroom. It covers grouping in pairs and small groups to build a team learning spirit in the classroom. Cooperative Learning is more than grouping children together it is helping students learn to work together toward a common learning goal with each person doing their part in the project. This is a guide that has helped over the years and made cooperative learning part of my teaching in all of my classrooms as a wonderful reference.

[Angela · Rating 5 out of 5]

While I have used some of Kagan's resources in the past, I was thrilled to be able to attend one of their workshops recently. This book was given out at the workshop. I can't wait to use all I learned.

[Dani M.]

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[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I teach 4th grade at an all boys middle school. I recently had my class size nearly doubled (12-20!) and have been struggling with how to strike the perfect balance between quiet independent work and fun, hands on learning that allows this very rowdy class of boys to be boys.

My boss purchased this book for me and it has changed my classroom drastically. It gives ideas as to how to allow the boys to teach one another and shift my role from the sole knowledge provider and disciplinarian to coach/advisor. Excellent read!

[Georgia · Rating 4 out of 5]

While maybe slightly geared more towards elementary than secondary classrooms, this text has an abundance of insightful ideas and resources for cooperative learning in the classroom. I especially found useful the team-building strategies. It might be overly optimistic at times (is that the nature of elementary teaching?), but it is great- wish I had read it at the start of my career.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really, really good for new teachers. Not so much for those with experience.

[Aaron Wong · Rating 4 out of 5]

Contains revolutionary ideas about teaching and learning, yet not over-complicating things as to make it inaccessible. One of the best teaching philosophies out there.

[Abdul Ajiz]

Good Book

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[Betty Primus · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great one! Really helpful

[Nitriia Nasution]

i like it kagan book