The team of Kagan Presenters consists of Nationally Certified Kagan Presenters. Bring a Kagan workshop to your school. Kagan offers a range of training opportunities including half-day and full-day awareness sessions, and multi-day workshops. Kagan also provides a range of ready-made topics, or can create for your site a "designer workshop" to meet your specific needs. Kagan Presenters receive national acclaim. All Kagan workshops feature a range of transformative Kagan strategies.

5 Reasons to Bring Kagan Professional Development to Your Site

1. It's cost effective.
Now more than ever you must stretch your training dollars as far as possible. On-site training saves you money.

2. It's convenient.
No need to wait for a workshop to come to your area. You select a site and date for your convenience.

3. It's beneficial to all.
When you choose a Kagan workshop, everyone learns new skills and solutions at the same time. This means your teachers are all on the same page, building an inherent support system and fostering schoolwide excitement.

4. It's the best around.
Each of our nationally certified trainers is carefully chosen from hundreds of applicants and trained in the tradition of quality set by the Kagans themselves.

5. It's guaranteed.
We guarantee results from our in-service trainings. If you don't agree that the training produced the promised positive results, we'll refund your money.

Dynamic Workshop Topics For Your School
Choose from many exciting inservice topics!

Cooperative Learning
Participants learn to use Kagan's easy co-op strategies in every lesson with little or no teacher preparation. Learn the basics of teamformation, teambuilding, classbuilding, management, scoring and recognition, assessment, the basic PIES principles, and a range of dynamic cooperative learning strategies.

Multiple Intelligences
Teach to all eight intelligences, develop all intelligences, and create in every student an understanding of their own unique pattern of intelligences as well as that of others. Learn simple strategies which release the power of MI in any lesson.

Character Development
Learn to promote empathy, caring, sharing, and responsible behaviors through proven cooperative learning and social skill methods.

Win-Win Discipline
Learn a host of strategies to use in the moment of a classroom disruption and what to do afterwards to prevent future classroom disruptions, build student self-esteem and teach responsibility.

Secondary Science
Teach science content and science process skills through easy-to-learn, easy-to-use hands-on cooperative learning strategies.

Block Scheduling and Secondary Restructuring
Leave this seminar ready to implement proven strategies for today’s high school students.

Creating the Cooperative School
Administrators and lead teachers learn proven methods to bring staff, students and administrators together to create the cooperative school.

Higher-Level Thinking Strategies and Manipulatives
The royal road to higher-level thinking is through student generated questions. Learn how to stimulate higher-level thinking through simple cooperative question prompts used across the range of curriculum areas. In addition to the Q-Matrix, you learn to use Spin-N-Think, Story Switchers, the Idea Spinner, Higher Level Thinking Question Cards, and the Idea Spinner. Your classroom becomes a think tank with cooperative learning structures and manipulatives.

Cooperative Learning in the Primary Classroom
Primary teachers love our "lessons for little ones." Learn how to promote social and academic gains through proven strategies for primary students.

Second-Language Learning through Cooperative Learning
Your second-language learners acquire English or any other second language with ease through dozens of cooperative and communicative structures. Designed for ESL and foreign language teachers.

Secondary Social Studies
Teach to the themes recommended by the National Council of Social Studies through proven cooperative learning methods. Students learn the fundamental principles of democracy, only through cooperative, democratic classroom strategies.

Teambuilding and Classbuilding
Build caring and cooperative teams with teambuilding structures and activities. Your classroom becomes a caring community in which each student feels known, accepted and appreciated.

Secondary Language Arts
Deliver dynamite language arts lessons everyday that will generate passion for reading while enhancing comprehension. Learn easy-to-use structures to boost higher-level thinking and communication skills.

Secondary Math
Be the best math teacher your students ever had. With revolutionary Kagan Structures, activities, and ready-made worksheets, your students will be more engaged, challenged, and excited about math.

Literacy
Learn fresh instructional strategies to incorporate balanced literacy into your daily curriculum. You will experience and learn to apply fresh structures that dramatically increase not only reading comprehension, but also vocabulary, reading fluency, writing, word study, and phonemic awareness.

Cooperative Learning Across the Curriculum (Grades K–6 only)
Academic achievement is dramatically improved through an integration of innovations in both curriculum and instruction. This multi-day training shows how to deliver the best of curriculum through the best of instructional strategies.


Questions?
or to setup an inservice for your school. E-Mail Nancy Murray