Kagan Cooperative Strategy

Kagan Cooperative Learning is an extremely successful teaching strategy in which small teams of students work together towards a learning goal. Each member of the group is responsible not only for learning what is taught but also for helping teammates learn, thus creating an atmosphere of achievement. Students work through the assignment until all group members successfully understands and complete it. Kagan Cooperative Learning structures minimize the opportunity for pupil to become distracted, disruptive and then disaffected by giving them the skills to work with others and to learn independently of the teacher. This structure teach pupils social skills, interaction with other pupil, turn talking, listening to the views of others and sharing information. I have used some Kagan Cooperative Strategies for 5 th  to 9 th  std   students  in the school. 


i)Playing with operations:

        Rule :   1)Try to achieve this result (for e.g. 20)          

                          2)Use these numbers : (for e.g. 1,10 ,10)   

  3)Use (for e.g. +, -, X) 

This type of game I was giving for lower std i.e 5th and 6th students, so that students worked together in groups. Students  actively participated to play this games and enjoyed a lot. 

ii)Numbered Heads Together:

This was done in following steps. Student number off (group of four). Teacher poses a problem. Students write their individual answers. Students stand up and put their head together to show their answers, discuss and teach. Students sit down when their group is done. Teacher calls a number and those students respond using choral response.

 iii)SHOWDOWN:
This was conducted in following steps. Teams have a set of question cards stacked face down in the center of the table.Teacher selects one student from each team to be the   showdown captain. 1.The captain draws the top card, reads the question, and   provides think tome. 2.Working alone, all students, including the captain, write their answers. 3.When finished, teammates signal they’re ready. 4.Captain calls “Showdown” . 1. Teammates show and discuss their answers. 2. Captain leads the checking. 3. If correct, the team celebrates. If not, teammate tutor then celebrates. 4. The person on the left becomes the captain for the next round.