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Making It Happen: The Complex Task of Supporting Implementation
I don’t understand. I sent teachers to training, and they came back excited. However, here we are four months later, and things pretty...
gavinclowes
Nov 21, 20241 min read
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Calling On One, Destructive, Frequent, and Replaceable
I have presented workshops and keynotes in 40 countries. In most of those countries I have visited classrooms to observe teaching and...
gavinclowes
Jan 30, 20241 min read
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The Power of Pair Work
Three Types of Pair Structures to Elevate Student Learning Cooperative Learning created an instructional revolution. Stacks of studies...
gavinclowes
Jul 20, 20231 min read
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Good Classmates/Team-mates are Made, Not Born
Henry Ford once said, “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” I think it is safe...
gavinclowes
Mar 24, 20231 min read
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Are Our Children in Jeopardy?
I suspect all of us have watched the game show Jeopardy! at some point in our lives. Let’s play one fictional round of Jeopardy!....
Vern Minor
Mar 1, 20231 min read
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Why Teams of Four Are Best!
What is the best team size and team composition? Teams of four are best for Cooperative learning because of the following two main...
gavinclowes
Oct 28, 20221 min read
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Seventeen Pros of Kagan Cooperative Learning
Over 500 research studies back the conclusion that cooperative learning produces gains across all content areas, all age groups/levels,...
gavinclowes
Oct 20, 20221 min read
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Experience the Kagan Difference: Simple instructional strategies that transform any lesson!
Kagan is different. How? Kagan-UK trains thousands of teachers how to use Kagan Structures, a unique set of instructional strategies...
gavinclowes
Sep 14, 20221 min read
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A Dozen Tools to Foster Growth Mindset and Prevent Learned Helplessness
Growth Mindset and Kagan Cooperative Learning.
gavinclowes
Aug 1, 20221 min read
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The Refocus Signal: Making it Work!
Managing noise during independent work is quite different than noise management in the Cooperative Learning class. In cooperative...
gavinclowes
May 25, 20221 min read
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Alertness Breaks
Are you interested in a quick, effective way to perk up your learners? Do you want to make exploring your topic more fun and interactive?...
gavinclowes
May 20, 20221 min read
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My Teachers Attended Training: Now What?
Top 5 List for SLT I remember asking myself this same question: "My Teachers attended training: Now what? " I knew low student engagement...
gavinclowes
May 13, 20221 min read
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Kagan Doodles
I'm not the worlds best illustrator but I really do enjoy sketching 'Kagan Doodles'. Feel free to drag and drop these colourful...
gavinclowes
May 4, 20221 min read
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9 Tips on How to Get Your Lesson Off to a Great Start.
Every lesson deserves a great start, get the start right and the rest of the lesson is that much more successful. Here are 9 easy tips to...
gavinclowes
Mar 30, 20221 min read
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Teambuilding Questions
Building Classroom Community Bully Free Classrooms! Teachers who do more teambuilding obtain higher academic scores. Teambuilding creates...
gavinclowes
Feb 9, 20221 min read
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Teammates Consult
Teammates consult is one of my favourite structures for problem solving. All students are given a copy of the same problem-solving...
gavinclowes
Jan 24, 20221 min read
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Providing Sentence Stems with Kagan Structures
Throughout the school day, we ask students to respond to questions. We want students to verbalise their thoughts to a partner, teammate,...
gavinclowes
Jan 24, 20221 min read
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Rosendale: A Kagan Model School
It has now been a few years since Rosendale Primary School became a Kagan Model School. Yet with all that has happened in the world in...
gavinclowes
Dec 16, 20211 min read
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Choose-a-Chip & Draw-a-Chip
Choose-a-Chip and Draw-a-Chip are terrific structures for building communication skills and promoting more engagement with the...
gavinclowes
Dec 9, 20211 min read
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Collective Memory
Do you want students to remember visual imagery in a fun way? Would you like your students to cooperate as they recreate maps, pictures,...
gavinclowes
Oct 13, 20211 min read
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