KAGAN STRUCTURES FOR MATHS - SECONDARY

Kagan Structures to Boost Engagement and Learning!

3 Day workshop

You can be the best maths teacher your students will ever have, without having to work harder.

We’ll explore how to multiply mathematics mastery!

With revolutionary Kagan Structures, activities, and ready-made worksheets, your students become more engaged, challenged, and excited about math.

Release the power of Kagan Structures for Pre-Algebra, Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Trigonometry, and Pre-Calculus. Surpass NCEA expectations.

Come away with the winning equation:

High School Mathematics + Kagan Structures = Increased Engagement, Learning, and Fun!

Workshop Highlights

  • Learn the most powerful and proven structures for secondary mathematics

  • Experience examples in Pre-Algebra, Algebra I-II, Trigonometry, and Pre-Calculus

  • Create greater success for every student using peer modelling and coaching

  • Teach for greater understanding while covering your secondary maths content

  • Release the power of student interaction with mathematical concepts, procedures, and problem-solving

  • Learn essential cooperative management tips for a smooth-running class

  • Make math more fun and engaging for students as they practice in pairs and teams, allowing you to work with focus groups, knowing the rest of the class is fully engaged

With your attendance, you will receive:

  • Kagan Structures for Secondary Mathematics Workbook

  • “Learning how to apply the structures to higher level mathematics is the best training I could hope for. This workshop has done that for me.”

    —DEMETRICE JENNINGS, 6TH-8TH GRADE MATH TEACHER

  • “I loved the pace of the workshop. The cooperative teamwork structures will give my students a new approach to math and other academic subjects. My students are going to love to come to school.”

    —KENDRA DANIELS, TEACHER

  • “Absolutely the BEST professional training I have ever attended. Great strategies to provide more accountability for my students.”

    —LORETTA ESPOSITO, 6TH-8TH GRADE MATH TEACHER

  • “Being a math teacher, I found it better to learn structures that I can use in a math class. The examples were great and easy to go back and try in my classroom.”

    - SUSAN LAPOINTE, TEACHER

  • “Loved seeing the structures applied to mathematics and being able to practice and try the methods ourselves.”

    -JEFF HICKS, HIGH SCHOOL MATH TEACHER

  • “Workshop was fabulous! I learned so many wonderful new things to keep my students engaged in math!”

    -TAMMIE BEAN, 2ND YEAR TEACHER

Why do we need Kagan?

We are facing four interrelated crises in education…

  • Academic performance in New Zealand is failing compared to other leading nations. Hundreds of research studies demonstrate cooperative learning increases achievement at all levels and in all academic areas.

  • Academic outcomes are inequitable for different races and socioeconomic classes. Cooperative learning promotes academic gains, especially for priority and low achieving learners, lowering the achievement gap and increasing educational equity.

  • Students increasingly lack essential character virtues, and social and communication skills. Cooperative learning improves the development of personal and social skills, largely missing in society, yet desperately sought in the current workplace.

  • More and more teachers don’t have the necessary skills to deliver everything that is required of them in schools of today: managing extreme student behaviour; ensuring student well-being; inclusion; teaching basic literacy and maths skills; using Culturally Responsive pedagogy; and so on…

    Kagan provides teachers with a pedagogical platform to effectively deliver the NZC, build a safe and positive classroom culture, develop social skills, promote positive behaviour management, and incorporates many aspects of CRP.

Each of these crisis can be addressed by frequent use of Kagan’s multi-faceted approach to cooperative learning.