KAGAN COOPERATIVE STRATEGIES

Kagan Cooperative Learning is an extremely successful teaching strategy in which small teams of students work together towards a learning goal.This structure teaches pupils social skills, interaction with other pupil, turn talking, listening to the views of others and sharing information. 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.

Some of the strategies that I had used in school are as follows:

1. What am I

This activity was conducted for the students of class VII .This strategy can be used at the start of the lesson or during evaluation.

1. In this structure teacher prepares a number of cards mentioning the number of letters the answer contains along with three clues on each card .
2. The teacher divides class into teams and ask any one student to come forward and pick up one card.
3. The student who picked the card then has to read the number of letters the answer has along with the first given hint.If his team is able to answer with the first hint they get 5 points. 
4. If the team is unable to answer with first hint then the student has to give second hint. So thus if team answers with second hint then they get 3 points and if with third hint they get 1 point.

2. Fill the blanks

This activity was conducted for the students of class V. This strategy can be used during development or during evaluation..

In this activity teacher writes an incomplete word from a certain topic. The name of topic is written below the incomplete word. The student has to fill the blanks to identify the correct answer. Each team gets only 3 chances to fill the blanks.

3. Draw it

This activity was conducted for the students of class V. This strategy can be used during evaluation of students on taught topic. 

In this strategy teacher tells any one word in context to their syllabus to the one student of the group and that student has to draw picture regarding the same and the group has to identify it

4. Fan and Pick

This activity was conducted for the students of class VI.This strategy can be used during evaluationof students on taught topic.

In this activity groups of four to five students are made to stand or sit in a circular form.Teacher writes one question on each card.Number of cards given to the group is one more than the number of students in a group.

1. One student of the group fans the cards to the adjacent student who has to pick up any random card.
2. The one who picks the card  has to read the question.
3. The third student has to answer the question and the fourth student in a circle has to say if the answer is right or wrong. 
4. The pattern continues in the same way with the next student fanning the cards to the other student.