KAGAN Day 3Training
Welcome
Quiet
Signal
(Goal: Silence in 5 seconds or less!)
1.
Stop.
2.
Look at speaker.
3.
Raise your hand.
4.
Silently signal others.
5.
Listen.
Teacher Says “Red
Robin”
Response “Yum!”
Fist Bump Praises
 Turkey:
Partner A is the body (Closed Fist)
Partner B are the feathers (Open Hand)
 Reindeer: Partner A are the antlers (Two Open Hands)
Partner B is the head (Closed Fist)
 Snail:
Partner A is the body (Closed Fist)
Partner B are the antenna (Two Fingers)
 Snowman: Partner A is the Head and Bottom (Two
Fists)
Partner B is the Body (One Fist)
 Jelly Fish: Partner A and B Fist bump and float away
saying (BLOOP, BLOOP, BLOOP)
•Know, accept and like each other
•Feel a sense of belonging
Feel sense of team identity, support,
belonging
Give One – Get One
 Everyone will need a pencil to write with
 As a group fill in the Give One column by coming to a
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consensus
When the Give One Column is done stand up as a group
When all groups are standing teacher gives a signal to
Hand Up and Pair Up
Greet (Person with longest hair shares and the other person
writes what they shared in the Get One Column)
Reverse Roles
Praise and Part to find a new person
If paper is filled stand on the perimeter of the room to act
as a sage if anyone left needs help
Give One – Get One Teambuilding
 When time is called return to groups
 Person 1 shares an idea
 Continuous Round Robin (verbal) until the teacher
says stop
Reflection: Timed Round Robin (#3)
 Think Time: “Which of the following academic functions
would this structure work best for?”
 Knowledge Building:
 Facts and Information
 Procedure Learning:
 Skills and Procedures
 Processing Information:
 Make Meaning, Display Understanding, Digest Content
 Thinking Skills:
 Compare/Contrast, Brainstorm, Evaluate, Cause/Effect
 Presenting Information:
 Book Reports/Projects
Do you know your Seven Keys?
 Think Time: What are the Seven Key Concepts for
KAGAN?
 Signal: Write what you think they are and a short
explanation of each
 Stop
 Signal: Rally Robin Say what you believe is one of the
seven keys and a one sentence description of it.
 Stop
 Snowman
Forming Teams
High
High Medium
Low Medium
Low
Every 6 Weeks
Fun = 1 time a week
Content = as needed
•Know, accept and like each other
•Feel a sense of belonging
At least 2 times a week
E Z for All
Feel sense of team identity, support,
belonging
Managing Noise:
Quiet Signal
Room Arrangement &
Seating
Managing
Giving Directions Materials
•Roles and Gambits
•Modeling
•Reinforcement
•Reflection and Planning
•Practice
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Cooperative Learning
Follow the steps
Make sure PIES is in every
structure
• When the music starts move stand up, push your chair in,
put your hand up and move slowly around the room
• When the music stops high five the closest person, greet
them, and put your hands to your side
• Timed Pair Share 30 seconds
• The person wearing the most jewelry will go first
• Person A shares for 30 seconds what they know about the 7
Key Concepts
• Person B when time is up says “You really remembered a lot
of information”
What does it Stand for?
P
Positive Interdependence
Mean?
Students Feel?
Does one Doing Well
Help others?
Are they on the same
side?
Does task completion
depend on everyone?
Do they need each
other?
I
Individual Accountability
Must everyone perform
in front of someone?
Can students hide?
E
Equal Participation
Is participation
approximately equal?
Do students feel they
have equal status?
S
Simultaneous Interaction
What percent are
talking or writing in the
moment?
Academic Functions
 Turn to page B:3 in your binder
 Look at your assigned Academic Function
 On your own write your own definition of what that
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academic function helps students acquire
Turn in your books to Chapter 6 page 24
Use that page to list 3 structures that cover this academic
function
Person 1 Knowledge Building
Person 2 Procedure Learning
Person 3 Processing Information
Person 4 Thinking Skills
If there is a person 5 Presenting Information
One Stray
Timed Round Table
 When signal is given person 2 in each group will stand up
 Each group will beckon for a new person number 2 to come
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to their group
Person 2 shares their Academic Function for 30 seconds
When signal is given person 4 in each group will stand up
Each group will beckon for a new person number 4 to come
to their group
Person 4 shares their Academic Function for 30 seconds
Person 1 shares for 30 seconds
Person 3 shares for 30 seconds
Processing One Stray
Binder B:48
 New Teams are formed
 Music will play and by the time it is done the following
should be completed
 New Team Members should be at new table
 Everyone should be in the binder Section B page 48
 Social Skills: Acceptance
 Ideas: Fact Checking (Any Content)
 Management Tip: Make sure they go to a group they
have not been in before
 DI Hints: Color Code Students so that they end in a
group they have not been in before
Teambuilding
Roundtable
 Turn in your binder to B:72
 Person Number 3 take out this page for the whole group
 Close Binders
 Person number 1 will go first and ask if the group likes
something that they like “Example: Do you all like ice
cream?”
 If everyone does person number one writes it in the center.
If only two people like ice cream write it in the number 2
quadrant
 Continue to go around by passing the paper to the next
person until you hear stop
 Ideas: Pets, Places to Visit, Objects, Animals
Round Table
 When the signal is given person number 1 will look at
the things that the team has in common and write
down three of those words as a suggestion for a team
name
 The team will pass around and fill in some team name
suggestions until the teacher says stop
 The team will then work as a group to do the following:
 Come to a consensus on the best team name
 A Team handshake or Action
 Team Sound or Cheer
At least 2 times a week
Feel sense of team identity,
support, belonging
Team Competition
 Person Number 4 will need a dry erase marker and a
white board
 Person Number 4 will start the competition and then
pass to the next person
 I will say a number
 Example “36” Acceptable 30 + 6 No reverse facts
 Person number 4 will record a way to make that
number and then pass it to 1
 Person number 1 repeats with a new way to make that
number and so on
 When I stay stop whichever group has the most ways
to make that number is the winner
The Numbers are:
40
100
Social Skills
Binder E:2
Teacher A :
Discipline
Problems/
Sitting in Rows
Teacher C
Win Win Discipline
All Students
Rationale for Social Skills
Why are there fewer disruptions?
Go with BASIC NEEDS
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Students want to talk and move
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Traditional: Sit Down Be Quiet
Cooperative Learning
Provides Movements: Class Builders Energizers
Social interactions
Basic needs are met
2. Engagement Time
1. Engaged students don’t have time to be disruptive!
Binder Section E page 5
 What Bothers you?
 Fill in the page by yourself for two minutes
 Timed Pair Share
Social Skills Development (E3)
 Roles and Gambits
 Roles are the jobs
 Gambits are what the students “Say” or “Do”
 Modeling
 Teacher and Student or Student to Student or Team
 Reinforcement: Catch them being good
 Reflections and Planning
 Stop during structures to point out what is being done
that you like
 Structures and Structuring
 Pick Structures with social skill in mind
 Can add a Social Skill to any structure
Inside Outside Circle
 Teammates who are “A” will stand up behind their
chairs
 When signal is given form an inner circle facing
outward
 Teammates who are “B” will stand up behind their
chairs
 When signal is given they will form an outer circle
facing a person in the inner circle
 Teacher stands in the middle
 Both circles will face the center to listen for directions
Inside Outside Circle
 Teacher will either ask a question or have pre-made
question cards
 Students will turn to each other, greet each other, and
answer question
 Format can be Quiz Quiz Trade, Timed Share, or Rally
Robin
 Student when done face center so the teacher knows
all students are listening
 Teacher gives direction on how many people to move
 Process starts again
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• Classbuilding: What are some fun things you like to do?
(Rally Robin)
• Knowledge Building: Quiz-Quiz Trade
• Thinking Skills: What are some of the serious issues
facing education today? (Timed Pair Share)
Processing Inside Outside Circle
Binder B:34
 Ideas:
 Vocabulary (Any Content)
 Social Skills:
 Listening
 Taking Turns
 Management:
 Make sure students face in when done
 DI Hints:
 Form smaller circles to differentiate the questions
Jot Thoughts
Use when brainstorming!
 Take a 3x5 card and fold it into fourths
 Tear the paper on the folded lines
 You should have 4 pieces of paper
 Think Time: Think about facts that you know about
Summer. What might it be like if it was summer all
year round and the effects it might have on the earth?
 Anyone can start.
 Say an idea, write it down, and place it in the middle of
the table
 Continue until all the pieces of paper are gone
 If done early categorize your thoughts
Jot Thought
 Example: Great Places to go on vacation
 Class Example: What are things you find in your
refrigerator?
 Knowledge Building: What are some of the challenges
that today’s youth will face in the future?
Rally Variations
Binder B:55
 Rally Robin
 List activities you can do in the cold or snow
 Rally Table
 Think of adverbs. Make a list
 Rally coach
 Simultaneous Rally Table
 Think about spiders. Begin to list as many things you
can about spiders
Round Table Variations
B:71
 Single Round Table: 1 Paper 1 Pencil
 What is a characteristic of a reptile?
 Continuous Round Table 1 Paper 1 Pencil
 Write and solve a multiplication fact you know
 Simultaneous Round Table
 Start a story out by saying “One day on my way to
school…”
 Ideas
Model And Practice
 Person 1:
Timed RoundRobin
 Person 2: Simultaneous RallyTable
 Person 3: AllWrite RoundRobin
 Person 4: Simultaneous RoundTable