Accelerated Learning for Lower Ability Pupils

Monday 16  March 2009

Based on years of experimentation and research, Dr. Spencer Kagan has perfected simple instructional strategies that dramatically increase the achievement of low achieving and low ability pupils. In this active workshop, you experience these strategies and learn ways to adapt them to your own classroom. The simple Kagan Structures for Achievement are used world wide to accelerate achievement; the Kagan instructional strategies are research based and proven successful. The Kagan approach has two outcomes: Excellence and Equity. That is, it not only boosts achievement for all students (excellence), it decreases the gap between low and high achieving students (equity). The strategies work by lifting up the lows while accelerating the achievement of all students. Come learn how to apply these easy-to-learn instructional strategies in any lesson, at any grade level. It’s easy. It’s research based.  Students love it. You will reawaken a joy in teaching.

New Offering: Recommended for teachers who have had the Kagan two-day cooperative learning course as well as those new to Kagan Structures wishing to increases achievement — especially the achievement of low performing students.

Tom Searl

What to Expect?

Experience Simple Strategies in Action
• Learn a variety of simple instructional strategies to use as part of any lesson
• The Kagan strategies are step-by-step instructional sequences that ensure engagement and achievement
• Receive an extensive note taking handout; you create a powerful resource to use time and again
• Adapt ways to tailor the strategies to the special needs in your classroom
• Integrate the strategies into your existing lessons; you don’t change what you teach — you learn more powerful ways to deliver your content

Review the Research
• Examine what the research says
• Review how schools and districts world wide are posting dramatic achievement gains
• Examine the data proving increased excellence
• Examine the data proving increased equity

Derive the Rationale
• Learn the nine reasons the Kagan strategies boost achievement and close the achievement gap
• Derive the rationale based on your own experience of the strategies
• Deepen your understanding of reinforcement theory, brain-based learning, positive cycles, and meta-communication in the classroom

Create Applications to Use Tomorrow!
• Leave the workshop with dozens of ready-to-use applications
• Adapt the strategies for your content — math, science, language arts, history, music, art, or whatever you teach
• Leave with strategies to increase memory — make your content unforgettable
• Deepen the thinking of all students in any content area
• Improve social relations and social skills among students without any time away from academic content
• Allow each student to blossom in her/his unique way
• Create a positive class culture — a community of caring, engaged learners