KAGAN Day 2Training
Welcome
Picking Stickies
Part 1 (Classbuilding)
 Place six sticky notes on your faux dry erase board
 On the first two stickies write “One fun thing you did this summer”
 On the next two stickies write “One way you relaxed this summer”
 On the next two stickies write “Your favorite TV shows you watched or
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caught up on this summer”
When the signal word is given you will stand up, hand up, and pair up
Each partner takes a turn reading the other partners sticky notes
As one partner reads they take sticky notes that relate to them somehow.
RULE: There must be one sticky note left on the other persons board at all
times
When done find a new partner until time is called
Exchanging Stickies
Part 2 (Teambuilding
 Return to your team with your new stickies
 Starting with one person read a sticky from your
board
 Initial your sticky and place it in the center of the
table
 If there are any other team members who can
relate to that sticky they initial it
 Continue until all stickies are gone
 Discuss your commonalities until time is called
Reflection
 Think Time: “How can I use “Picking Stickies as a
structure in my mathematics classroom?”
 When the signal is given jot down a few ideas by
yourself
 All Write Round Robin
 When the signal is given starting with person number
1 read your idea
 If you have it put a star by the same idea if you do not
have it record that idea on your board
 Continue going around to each player until time is
called
Forming Teams
Binder C:3
 Everyone will take out C:6 and C:7
 Person 1 will have students:
 Ace S Test -------Chase N Grades
 Person 2 will have students:
 Cher Leader ------ Hope Foraneh
 Person 3 will have students:
 Ima Winner ----- Mona Lisa
 Person 4 will have students:
 Nick a Time -----Wyatt All
Forming Teams
Binder C:3
 Cut your cards
 Fill in your information about your students
Forming Teams
Binder C:3
 Step 2:
 Math divide the number of students by 4
 If there are remainders do the following:
 1 = HM or LM 2 = 1 goes HM 1 goes LM 3 = form a new
group
 Sort students by grades into the following:
Forming Teams
Binder C:3
 Step 3: Color Code Cards
 Red Dot for Low students
 Green Dot for High Medium
 Blue Dot for High students
Forming Teams
Binder C:3
 Step 4: Team Formation
 When forming your team after looking at their grades
what are some other factors that come into play?
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Gender
Ethnicity
ELL
Social
Behavior
Timed Round Robin
 Think Time: How does this way of
forming groups promote a brain
friendly classroom?
 30 seconds each
 Person 1 starting
Pages 5.9 – 5.12
The difference
between ThinkPair Share and
Timed Round
Robin
Think Pair Share
 Think Time: Think about a KAGAN structure you
used in your classroom. How did it go?
 Signal: “Activate”
 Is Think Pair Share a Cooperative Structure?
Binder A16
Symbol
Mean?
Think
Pair
Share
Time
Pair Share
Students
Feel
Positive
Does one
doing well
help
others?
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On the
Same Side
Interdependence
Does task
completion
depend on
everyone?
0
Need
Each other
Individual
Accountability
Binder A16
Symbol
Mean?
Think
Pair
Share
Individual
Accountability
Does
everyone
perform in
front of
somebody?
0
Time
Pair Share
Students
Feel
Can’t Hide
Equal
Participation
Binder A16
Symbol
Mean?
Think
Pair
Share
Equal Participation
Is
participation
approximately
equal?
Turns
Time
0
Time
Pair Share
Students Feel
Equal
Status
Binder A16
Symbol
Mean?
Think
Pair
Share
Simultaneous
Interaction
What percent
of students
are talking or
writing at the
moment?
50%
Time
Pair Share
Students Feel
Engaged
Timed Pair Share
 Think Time: Think about a KAGAN structure you
used in your classroom. Did this structure have all the
components of PIES in it? Explain your thinking
 Shoulder Partner
 Person with shortest hair goes first
 30 seconds
 Signal: “Activate”
 Praise “Gobble Gobble Great”/ “Ho Ho Ho- Way to Go”
 Switch Roles
 Repeat
Binder A16
Symbol
Mean?
Think
Pair
Share
Time
Pair Share
Students
Feel
Positive
Does one
doing well
help
others?
+
+
On the
Same Side
Interdependence
Does task
completion
depend on
everyone?
0
+
Need
Each other
Individual
Accountability
Binder A16
Symbol
Mean?
Think
Pair
Share
Time
Pair Share
Students
Feel
Individual
Accountability
Does
everyone
perform in
front of
somebody?
0
+
Can’t Hide
Equal
Participation
Binder A16
Symbol
Mean?
Think
Pair
Share
Time
Pair Share
Students Feel
Equal Participation
Is
participation
approximately
equal?
Turns
Time
0
+
Equal
Status
Binder A16
Symbol
Mean?
Think
Pair
Share
Time
Pair Share
Students Feel
Simultaneous
Interaction
What percent
of students
are talking or
writing at the
moment?
50%
50%
Engaged
Review of PIES
Simultaneous Round Table
 Think about what you know about the characteristics
of PIES
 Everyone should have one paper and one pencil
 When I say signal you will have 3o seconds to write
some things you know about PIES on the paper
 Every 30 seconds you will hear the buzzer buzz pass
your paper to the next person and continue to add
ideas
 When the buzzer beeps four times you should have
your own paper back again
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Signal “Activate
Stand Up – Hand Up – Pair Up
Timed Pair Share
Partner with the darkest shoe color
goes first
When the signal is given share what
you know about PIES using your
paper as a guide
Signal “Activate”
30 seconds share
Gambit: Your memory is excellent
Switch Roles
Gambit: You taught me a lot about
PIES
BREAK Maybe?
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
• Rally Robin
• Starting with the person who has the most colorful shoes
on rally back and forth the 7 structures
• Make sure you do the hand motion with it
• Signal Activate
• Praise: “You’re the Turkey with all the trimmings”
Quiz-Quiz Trade Review
 Review the following pages:
 A3
 A4
 A16
 A17
Quiz-Quiz Trade
Review
• Every student gets a card
• When Signal is given students engage in a Stand Up Hand Up – Pair Up
• High Five
• Greet
• Ask “Who would like to go first?”
• Quiz
• Praise or Tip, Tip, Tip, Teach (Try Again)
• Switch Roles
• Trade Cards
• Parting
• Hand Up – Pair Up
Chapter 6 Page 32
 No Music
 No new material
 Create a Sticky Zone
 No Talking unless quizzing
 Use Indoor voice/2 inch voice
What content areas can I use
Quiz-Quiz Trade?
 Continuous Round Table
 Think Time
 Signal Activate
Selecting the right function of usefulness
Binder B:2
 Classbuilding/Teambuilding (Complete on your own)
 Social Skills: Thinking back to the structures, what
other social skills are covered that are not listed?
Round Table your ideas
 Communication Skills: Thinking back to the
structures, what communication skills are
demonstrated by students? Single Round Table
 Decision Making: Thinking back to the structures,
How are decision making skills demonstrated? Timed
Round Table
Academic Functions
Binder B:3
Knowledge Building
Students Acquire (Mastery of):
Facts
Information
Think:
Reviewing
Memorizing
Rally Robin (Shoulder Partner): Content teachers teach
that are knowledge building
Structure Example is Quiz-Quiz Trade
Academic Functions
Binder B:3
Procedure Learning
Students Acquire (Mastery of):
Skills
Procedures
Think:
Steps to Follow
Life Cycle/Regrouping
Rally Robin (Face Partner): Content teachers teach that
have steps
Structure Example is Rally Coach
Academic Functions
Binder B:3
Processing Information (Metacognition)
Students Acquire (Mastery of):
Thinking About Thinking
Think:
Stop and Chew
Understanding, Digesting, Comprehending
Clear Working Memory
Instant Star: What are some things you learned today?
Structure Examples: Rally Robin, Round Robin, Timed
Pair Share
Academic Functions
Binder B:3
Thinking Skills
Students engage and develop different types of thinking.
Creative (Think: Brainstorming)
No one correct answer
Critical (Think: Predicting, Summarizing, and
Analyzing)
Open Ended
Structure Examples: Rally Robin and Timed Pair Share
Academic Functions
Binder B:3
Presenting Information
Make It (Posters, Report)
Bring from Home (Projects)
Structure Examples: Inside Outside Circle and Carousel
Feedback
Where is this all found?
Book Chapter 6:24
Round Robin Variations
Binder B:61
 Single Round Robin:
 Think of a Jungle Animal
 Continuous Round Robin:
 Multiplication facts using factors of 2,5, or 10
 Timed Round Robin:
 If you could go anywhere in the world where would it be
and why?
 All Write Round Robin: (One Marker/One Board)
 What are words that you would use to describe an
engaging classroom?
Round Robin Variations
Binder B:61
 Round Robin Variations Maxtrix
 Draw Together
Round Robin Variations
Binder B:62
 Take 15 minutes to fill in the following table
Teambuilding
Single Round
Robin
(Brief)
Continuous Round
Robin
(Brief)
Timed Round
Robin
(Lengthy)
All Write Round
Robin
Example: Favorite
Things
Mastery
• Knowledge
• Procedures
Thinking
• Processing
• Thinking Skills
Example: Things
that are Red
Example:
Adjectives
Sharing
• Presenting
Information
Name Planets
What Character
would you be from
the story and why?
How does global
warming affect
you? (Report)
Fan and Pick
• Person 1 selects a card. Fans Cards. Says to person 2,
“Pick a card any card!”
• Person 2 picks card and reads it to person 3
• Person 3 answers card
• Person 4 “Praises or Tutors”
• If open ended question, “Paraphrases the other
students response
• Person one turns the mat so that Person 2 is now
number 1 and passes the cards to that person
• Repeat
Fan and Pick
• Team Builder
• Content
Fan and Pick
Text Chapter 6 Page 25
• Highlight
• Step 1 Fan
Pick a Card, any card
• Step 2 Pick Reads Aloud
5 seconds of think
time
• Step 3 #3 answers
• Step 4 #4
right/wrong checks praises
tutors
• Step 5 rotate one person clockwise
Fan and Pick
Binder B:10
Ideas for my class!
Teambuilding
Mastery
Thinking
Get to Know You
Vocabulary
Process of Rock
formation
Social Skills:
Taking Turns
Listening
Management:
Use Mats
Prepare Cards
DI:
Provide answers
Then rotate roles, 1 person clockwise