Kagan Structures to Try

1. Showdown - This could be used as a review at the end of a lesson or unit to check in on all students and see how they are understanding.  It's also a great way to gather ideas at the start of a writing or research project.
2. Think, Pair, Share - When teaching a new concept, this offers a step during gradual release within the "we" to support students as they move towards individually applying it. They can try it on their own, and then compare and discuss together before sharing with the class.
3. 30 Sec Speeches- Students can research background/historical context for a novel at the start of the unit, and prepare 30 second speeches to share in groups.  This will give the necessary context when reading the novel while still giving students the opportunity to conduct research and organize it to share with others.

Timed Paired Share: This would be used as a way for students to get a chance to share their opinion on a book or topic we are discussing. Since it's timed, the other person is not able to interrupt the one talking and that person's thought/ideas are able to be shared. Then it is the other partner's time to share. This feels like a great way to make sure partners both get heard.

Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up: I would use this strategy to have students quickly pair up to share their ideas on a topic and then move on to get other information. This could be a getting to know you/community building activity or for student to compare answers they have been working on. 

Round Robin: This would be used in group work where there is a lot of information to be shared. Student would go around clockwise and each team member would give an answer needed. This will ensure that all contribute and get the work done without arguing on who gets to talk next. 

I would really like to try quiz, quiz, trade in my classroom. I have seen others model it and would like to see it work in my classroom. The one I plan on trying soon is inside/outside circle. This seems simple to set up and has many "fun" options to introduce it. My third choice would be showdown, there are others in my building that speak highly of it and I would be interested in watching them and then trying it in my own classroom.

Rally Coach- i'd like to actually use this ASAP with math.  We are working on elapsed time and I think that this could really benefit my students at all academic levels.

Stand up, hand up, pair up-  I will use this more to practice vocabulary.  Often times my students match up with the same partner time after time, and this could help fix that issue. 

Round Robin- My students are wonderful speakers....but not always great listeners. This would be something we could exercise to try to help us out! 

1) Guess the Fib, I love using this structure at the end of the day when we are packing up!

2) Round Robin, this is great for table discussions during ELA and Science!

3) Showdown, I haven't done this structure yet, but I think it would be a great way to review for Math!

I love any structure that gets my kids up and partnering randomly. 
Quiz - Quiz- Trade - I think this would be  great way to use some of my task cards instead of at a center.
Inside/Outside circles - for sharing about a book they are currently reading right before we go to library
Four corners - for forming groups and mixing up personalites
I think Fan- N-Pick would be another great way to use task cards.

Quiz,  Quiz, Trade could be used in an ELA classroom to review prefixes, roots, and suffixes. During this structure, students use flash cards. Student 1 shows a card to student 2. Student 2 answers and defines the term. Then student 2 shows a card to student 1.  This is repeated until all cards are reviewed.  This repetitive activity will help students learn these word parts.

In my ELA classroom, I would like to try Simultaneous RoundTable.  Each Student writes a sentence containing the strategies being taught (I.e., adverbs, adjectives, capitalization, etc.). Then, the group rotate papers and each student will edit the sentence by correcting any errors. If the sentence is correct, the studeint who received the paper would write a new sentence.  The rotations continue until the teacher calls stop.

Using Fan-N-Pick, a deck of question cards are fanned out and partner 1 says, "Pick a card, any card!"   Student 2 reads the question on the card and student 3 answers the question.  Student 4 paraphrases or coaches.  The students rotate the tasks and the activity continues.  This could be used in a science class a review for a quiz.

Jigsaw for large amounts of information 
Team line up for brain break in transition to partner activity 
Fan & pick for fact fluency

Quiz quiz trade - math facts 

Round Table - writing a story each person has to create a sentence that's would make sense for the story 

sage and scrib - math solving a several step processs math problem with one person saying each step while the other is writing what they are saying 

Timed Pair Share.  I like that it gives both students equal time.  This could be used after any discussion in class to chat about what they just learned or discuss their weekend as a brain break!

Rally Robin.  Team discussions about civilizations, possibly a specific part of that civilization.  Many other ideas as well.

Mix-Freeze-Group.  This was definitely one of my favorites at the training.  I love that it gives the students the opportunity to move around the room.  It also makes them have to pay attention and work as a team to answer questions to form their groups.  It can also be used as a brain break or for team building!

I want to use Find Someone Who in math to practice addition and subtractions strategies. I can also use it as an end-of-the-year activity for students to show what they have learned about each other.

Logic Lineups can be used for just about any content. I would like to try using them for math to practice 2D and 3D shape attributes.

I will try to use Quiz-Quiz-Trade as a math review. In the past month we have covered 2D and 3D shapes and fractions. I would like students to create their own 3 question quiz on one of these topics and quiz/tutor their peers before we take our test.