You will learn...

Structures for Success™

• Put the best research into practice in your classroom
  
• Use cutting-edge structures that promote success
  
• Boost your students' achievement through practical, classroom-proven structures
  
• Make your lessons come alive
  
• Use strategies to reach all your students
  
• Make learning more fun for everyone

Improve Your Class Climate

• Create a caring, cooperative classroom through energizing classbuilding activities
  
• Foster belonging for students of all ability levels
  
• Have fun with your students with indoor and outdoor cooperative sports and games
  
• Promote full-class cooperation with scoring and recognition systems
  
• Establish a classroom environment where everyone wants to be—including you

Manage Your Class for Success

• Make your room run smoothly, and your teaching day go easier with 'Hot Tips'
  
• Engage students and avoid classroom disruptions
  
• Turn around your difficult students
  
• Go home with more energy after each day
  
• Reduce discipline problems
  
• Save time with proven management ideas
  
• Arrange your class to maximize success

Build Your Students' Social Skills

• Teach your students the skills they really need to succeed in school and throughout their lives
  
• Promote caring, kindness, empathy, respect, and responsibility without separate lessons
  
• Develop your students' character in the context of learning together
  
• Improve student relations in your class and beyond

Form Successful Learning Teams

• Create and manage teams in your class where Together Everyone Achieves More
  
• Learn a better approach than simple group work
  
• Transform your lessons into engaging, interactive learning events that guarantee success
  
• Release the power of true cooperative learning
  
• Apply the '7 Keys' to make it work for you

Supercharge Learning

• Motivate your students to learn even the boring stuff, with structures that work
  
• Watch your students delve deeper into the curriculum than you ever thought possible
  
• Enhance your students' mastery and achievement
  
• Implement incredible memory techniques
  
• Generate higher-level thinking among all students

Make Projects Cooperative

• Turn group projects into cooperative projects
  
• Hold all students accountable
  
• Engage ALL students

You will receive...

• Kagan Cooperative Learning Book
• Kagan Cooperative Learning Course Workbook

Please bring your book and workbook to class on the first day and every day. Order Materials Online at: www.kaganonline.com/ucr/

Participants Rave

"Excellent, practical content provided. Everything taught this week can be applied to everything I teach. I'm ready to go with it the day I walk in the room, no previous prep time is needed."

—Jan P. May, History & Reading Teacher, Grade 5

"All of the content is interesting, relevant, and valuable. I am so excited about all of the new wonderful ideas. I appreciated the research to back it up and the helpful ways to remember everything."

—Katrina J. Burse, Teacher, Grade 1

"I learned that behavior is a message. It gets past the disruption to the underlying message. It is so practical and user-friendly. It gives me a whole new way to look at kids and even myself. Thanks!"

—K.C. Blackketter, Teacher, Grade 1