Kagan Workshops
Structures for Thinking Skills™
4 or 5-Day Institute
Description
Transform your classroom into a higher-level think tank! Forget designing special thinking skills lessons. Learn to implement the 15 Thinking Skills Model as part of any lesson; make thinking skills part of every lesson! Rethink thinking. What do today's students need to succeed in tomorrow's world? Go beyond Bloom with a brain-based information processing approach to thinking skills. See which parts of the brain are engaged and developed as students do different types of thinking. Prepare your students for the information explosion with simple structures for categorizing, brainstorming, deducting, inducting, summarizing, shifting perspective, calculating, symbolizing, problem solving, predicting, synthesizing, and more. Teach your students to think rigorously and compassionately about substantive content. Learn to release the power of the embedded curriculum. As you use simple structures to deliver any content your students will reap the benefits of an exciting additional curriculum: thinking skills. Release the genius in every student as you use structures that inspire, demand, and develop the range of thinking skills. Learn to use the revolutionary Q-Matrix with any content. Your class will be a buzz of engagement with Spin-N-Think, the Idea Spinners, 4 S Brainstorming, Team Statements, and a host of Kagan Structures.
You Will Learn
- Explore the 15 most fundamental thinking skills
- Develop thinking skills as part of every lesson
- Integrate thinking skills across your curriculum
- Explore thinking skills as the most fundamental curriculum
- Put team dynamics to work
- Release the power of synergy
- Learn specific structures for specific thinking skills
- Review cooperative learning basics
- Make thinking fun for your students—and you
- Learn effective role-taking strategies
- Hone students' categorizing skills
- Develop symbolizing skills
- Boost comprehension and retention
- Skyrocket summarizing smarts
- Strengthen students' analytical skills
- Promote application of knowledge
- Learn strategies for inductive and deductive reasoning
- Nurture students' problem-solving skills
- Jump start students' critical and creative thinking
- Prepare students for a rapidly changing world
- Generate higher-level thinking among ALL students
- Enhance synergy with cooperative brainstorming
- Foster the ability to synthesize information
- Improve students' evaluation skills
- Increase accuracy of predictions
- Unleash the power of questions
- Experience: Agree-Disagree Line-Ups, Team-Pair-Solo, Find-a-Frame vs. Fill-a-Frame, Idea Spinner Game and more!
Master Thinking Skills Essentials
Create a Cooperative Think Tank
Give Students Tools for Understanding
Process Information in Many Ways
Develop Higher-Order Thinking
Generate New Ideas
Register Today!
Call Kagan today to register for a workshop 800-266-7576.
To bring Kagan to your school or district, please contact Nancy Murray 800-451-8495.
