Kagan Structures for Thinking Skills

Kagan Structures for Thinking Skills

Workshop Highlights

  • Explore the 15 most fundamental thinking skills

  • Jump-start students' critical and creative thinking

  • Prepare students for a rapidly changing world

  • Generate higher-level thinking among all students

  • Integrate thinking skills across your curriculum, in every lesson

  • Strengthen students' analytical skills

  • Enhance synergy with cooperative brainstorming

In this dynamic, hands-on workshop you will experience simple instructional strategies to engage and develop the 15 most fundamental thinking skills.

Prepare your students for the information explosion with simple structures for categorising, brainstorming, deducing, inducing, summarising, shifting perspective, calculating, symbolising, problem solving, predicting, synthesising, and more.

Adopt simple structures to develop each of these skills with no time away from your academic curriculum! Learn how to embed the thinking skills into how you teach, so every lesson becomes a thinking skills lesson.

Improve academic engagement, retention, and achievement—but most importantly, prepare every student with thinking skills they will use for a lifetime!

Transform your classroom into a think tank!

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Kagan Structures for Thinking Skills

2 Day workshop

Workshop materials include:

  • Course handout

  • Graphic Organisers SmartCard

    • Discount Package Available:

      • Cooperative Learning & Higher Level Thinking: The Q-Matrix w/Question Manipulatives Book

      • Idea Spinner Combo Kit

      • Question Spinners Combo Kit

      • Spin-N-Think Combo Kit

  • “This provided an excellent and unique perspective on one of the central elements of teaching: Thinking! This course also provided an amazing set of tools to help my students become aware of their own thinking.”

    —BO BRUEN, 6TH GRADE TEACHER

  • “Thinking Skills was filled with practical and powerful instructional strategies that can be easily and readily implemented.”

    —MATTHEW FARRELL, TEACHER

  • “This content makes it easier to ensure that all of my students are thinking and participating. I look forward to giving them a new outlook on learning.”

    —JESSICA FERGUSON, LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHER

  • “Today we learned about meaningful, engaging, and exciting higher-level thinking structures that promote and provide children with opportunities to practice thinking about ideas or learning concepts.”

    -SHANNON BANZHAF, 3RD GRADE TEACHER

  • “Very appropriate and timely. Thinking—what they need most but hardest to get them to do! All these ideas will be implemented immediately!”

    -SUSAN BUTLER, 4TH GRADE TEACHER

  • “Thinking Skills were excellent! I really enjoyed viewing ways and working through ways to use these skills/structures within the classroom.”

    -SHIRLEY WARNIMONT, 2ND GRADE TEACHER