Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures What ? ways of organising classroom activities content neutral easy to learn and use repeatable wide variety Why ? maximise student participation encourage respectful listening provide opportunities for coaching promote mastery of the content an efficient way to organise the classroom promote responsibility, team spirit and aid behaviour management
Quiz Quiz Trade vocab / key phrase practice and memorisation Je fume vingt cigarettes par jour ………………………………………………. I smoke twenty cigarettes a day dix jours
Rally Robin key word, grammar starters and plenaries AB
Rally Coach sentence transformations for grammar practice 1.der Wecker klingelt um 7 Uhr __________________________ 2. Ich wache um 9 Uhr auf ______________________________ 3. Ich stehe sofort auf ____________________________ 4. Ich wasche mich im Badezimmer _____________________________ 5. Ich rasiere mich ____________________________ 6. Ich schminke mich _____________________________ 7. Ich ziehe mich an ____________________________ 8. Ich putze mir die Zähne _____________________________ 1.Ich entspanne mich im Wohnzimmer ____________________________ 1.Ich interessiere mich für Fremdsprachen 2. _____________________________
All Write Round Robin accurate production of key grammar with collaboration in groups Write sentences from prompts, in silence, 5 rounds passing to the left each time 2.Collaborate to correct mistakes. 3.Teacher selects numbered students to give the group’s answer – points awarded
Conclusion students like working in groups they definitely speak more target language they love using mini whiteboards it’s and easy way to introduce a change of focus the more you use a structure, the more effective it becomes