Hello Kagan Klub members!
As you may already know we thought it might be easier to maintain communication via this wonderful blog. The purpose, we felt, would be to ask questions, provide support, share success stories and flops. We agreed that we'd post at least one comment per month starting in March. Comments are expected to be submitted by the 15th of every month. We also hoped that this would be more successful than our before and after school meeting attempts.
Well, with the nitty-gritty out of the way... Let the collaboration begin!!!
3 comments:
Ideas we've shared so far in the meetings combined:
*As far as teaching with Kagan is concerned there's no structure geared toward that at this time. However, using clozed notes, Rally or Round Robin, and Timed Pair Share are still great ways to have kids re-teach the material to each other. It's still new to them.
*Kalinowski came up with "RallyWrite" as a way to have students read a story, answer the questions, and then together finish the story with RallyWrite (partners take turns writing a sentence to the story). I could've bumbled some of this; hopefully Kalinowski will save me if I'm wrong.
*Umphrey did an Agree/Disagree with her kids using review questions. Kids had to agree or disagree with the answer the student in the "hot seat" came up with. But I don't remember how it went from there. Hopefully she'll post to correct my ramblings.
*Ideas for creating team names - use the We Like sheet, have them make a list of similarities, use N.A. tribes or something else content-based (figurative language, part of speech, math vocabulary, etc.), Jot Thoughts as a way to vote
*Davis talked about using Cake Wrecks as a way to teach grammar, but I didn't happen to write down the structure she used... doh!
*We said we were still struggling trying to fit team building and class building activities into each week.
*Looking back to our first meeting I have questions like:
what strategies are we doing? how/when?
What problems are we having and how have we tried to fix them?
EL - time management?
How can we teach with Kagan?
Coaching? (not sure where the rest of that question is!)
Success stories?
AGREE/DISAGREE:
Kids had to agree or disagree with the answer the student in the "hot seat" came up with to review questions. The students could go to the "AGREE" or "DISAGREE" corner of the room. If the person in the "hot seat" is correct, then all the students in the "Agree" corner get to stay in the game. The rest sit down. If the person in the "hot seat" is incorrect, then the students in the "Disagree" corner get to stay in the game. The rest sit down. Those sitting get to help cheer on or ask/clarify/verify questions being asked.
HAVE A BALL: (Note: This is my own structure creation. It is meant to work on listening skills, social skills, and summarizing skills. It was ideally created for groups of 4.)
Students sit in a circle with their team with a small ball in the center. A "discussion" question is asked. Someone grabs the ball to answer. (Whoever has the ball in their hands is the ONLY one who is allowed to talk.) The person with the ball shares their answer and then tosses the ball to any other team member. This person finishes the sentence, "I want to add..." and then tosses it to another team member who says, "So what you both just said was....." The final team member is tossed the ball and is in charge of praising any or all of the other team members.
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