Kagan Structures for Cooperative. Learning & Active Engagement. Days 1 & 2.
Learn Kagan Structures for Success. Improve the Learning in Your Class.
Kagan Structures for Cooperative Learning & Active Engagement Days 1 & 2 Learn Kagan Structures for Success
Improve the Learning in Your Class
* Put the best research to practice in your classroom * Use cutting-edge structures that promote success * Boost your students’ achievement through proven, fun, motivating activities * Spice up your existing lessons with new, engaging structures that make learning come alive * Make learning more fun for you--and your students
* Boost your students’ test scores * Breathe life into your curriculum * Make learning a fun and active process in your class * Use classroom-proven structures to teach your curriculum more successfully * Ensure success for all your students * Promote higher-level thinking with any curriculum
Develop Your Students’ Social Skills * Teach social skills in four easy steps * Watch as your students work well together * Help your students develop life-long social skills * Practice positive social skills every day without * taking time away from learning * Promote positive behavior; prevent negative behavior
Create a Cooperative, Caring Class * Create a positive classroom environment * Turn your classroom into a place where everyone wants to be--including you * Improve your students’ liking for school, class, and each other, with classbuilding activities * Make every day a rewarding experience * Teach your students to care
Manage Your Class for Success
* Create order, cooperation, and respect--easily * Learn Hot Tips to prevent management problems in your classroom * Organize your class to ensure student success * Save valuable time with practical management ideas * Solve discipline problems in your classroom * Turn around your problem students * Spend more time on learning and less on managing
Build Powerful Learning Teams
* Build successful cooperative teams every time * Take advantage of the power of teamwork * Save time with easy team-formation tips * Create powerful learning teams in your class with teambuilding activities * Keep teams together for the optimum time * Give your students a skill they will need throughout life--working together successfully
Day 1: Tuesday, JUNE 21, 2011 Day 2: Wednesday, JUNE 22, 2011 Time: 8:00 A.M. - 3:45 P.M. Register early ~ Space is Limited!
Kagan Structures for Cooperative Learning & Active Engagement Days 3 & 4 Structures for Success
Build Your Students’ Social Skills
* Put the best research to 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
* 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
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
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 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
* 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
Day 3: Thursday, JULY 21, 2011 Day 4: Friday, JULY 22, 2011 Time: 8:00 A.M. - 3:45 P.M. Register early ~ Space is Limited!
Kagan Structures for Cooperative Learning & Active Engagement All Participants Receive: • Kagan Cooperative Learning Book & Course Materials • Certificate of Completion • Option to shop at an onsite book and product display • 1 Unit of graduate credit for every 2 days completed will be available Breakfast and Lunch will be provided. Audience:
All Educators Grades K-12
Dates:
DAY 1: Tuesday, JUNE 21, 2011 DAY 2: Wednesday, JUNE 22, 2011 DAY 3: Thursday, JULY 21, 2011 DAY 4: Friday, JULY 22, 2011
Time:
8:00 A.M. Check-In 8:30 A.M. - 3:45 P.M.
Location:
St. Louis RPDC at the University of Missouri-St. Louis Regional Center for Education & Work 8225 Florissant Road St. Louis, MO 63121
Choose one:
_____ Days 1-2: $349 CSD Members; $424 Non-Members Reference #24031-04 (Days 1 & 2 ONLY) _____ Days 1-3: $449 CSD Members; $539 Non-Members Reference #24031-05 (Days 1, 2, & 3 ONLY) _____ Days 1-4: $549 CSD Members; $659 Non-Members Reference #24031-06 (All 4 Days)
Registration Deadline: May 13, 2011 For more information contact Tiffiny Creech
[email protected] 314-692-1256 or David Sanders
[email protected] 314-692-1219. Registrations may be mailed to CSD, Attn: Tiffiny Creech, 8225 Florissant Road, St. Louis, MO 63121 or faxed to 314-692-9700.
