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The first week of school is winding down and it has been great. The Kagan workshop really got us motivated to try new things. One of our teachers did an amazing one hour presentation on cooperative learning before school started. The faculty that attended the workshop also shared resources and experiences with the other faculty that could not attend.
I am the technology teacher and I teach the entire school. So I decided to concentrate on Mix-Pair-Share this week. It was awesome. I went over the Acceptable Use Policy for the computer lab with the class and then incorporated the material into the questions I asked during the structure. The entire school will know this structure and that will help the other teachers that did not attend the workshop. The students can help those teachers become more familiar. I look forward to doing more. I am realizing how disengaged my students can be without these structures.
I am the technology teacher and I teach the entire school. So I decided to concentrate on Mix-Pair-Share this week. It was awesome. I went over the Acceptable Use Policy for the computer lab with the class and then incorporated the material into the questions I asked during the structure. The entire school will know this structure and that will help the other teachers that did not attend the workshop. The students can help those teachers become more familiar. I look forward to doing more. I am realizing how disengaged my students can be without these structures.
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Comment by Tina Young on September 5, 2010 at 3:35pm -
Elizabeth - I'm so glad it worked! What a great picture of your students being engaged! I've used it in my class also and I've found it worked great! I'm so excited to use it in my class and look forward to incorporating it more into my curriculum.
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Comment by JoAnn Jacobs on August 20, 2010 at 5:17pm -
Kagan has been around forever and it continues to work because human beings have a basic need for structure in their environment.
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Nice prezi from Hualalai here
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they do give two examples of the kind of projects they are looking for:
A modularized online course of study that may be composed and sequenced with a variety of other materials and deployed in a variety of learning environments. Note: there is not an expectation that an entire year-long course of study be completed.
An online, collaborative environment in which students are asked to practice and show mastery of literacy Common Core Standards within the context of solving biology problems.
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