Kagan Publishing & Professional Development

You will receive a customized, interactive workbook for each day of training. Your workbook provides a location to record new learnings, make personal applications to your classroom, reflect on fresh insights, and gather novel ideas shared by colleagues. Your workbook will serve as an invaluable reference as you implement the many structures, strategies, and ideas in this training.

Transform your classroom into a visual think tank with graphic organizers! This colorful SmartCard describes the rationale for using graphic organizers, provides ideas and activities across the curriculum, and illustrates over 30 graphic organizers including: Chains, Ladder, Cycle Graph, Mind Map, Venn Diagrams, Word Web, Concept Map, Concept Charts, Compare/Contrast Charts, PMI, Target, Pie Chart, Fish Bone, Categories, Tree, Pyramid, Matrix, and Plot. You’ll find loads of ideas to use graphic organizers in your class: have students graph the seasons with a Cycle Graph, compare and contrast the branches of government or story characters with a Venn Diagram, Mind Map any important concepts, draw the events of a story or historical event with a Picture Strip, and analyze cause and effect with a Fish Bone. An excellent, quick-reference card for all types of graphic organizers.

The Big Picture in a MiniBook! Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures have revolutionized the way tens of thousands of teachers teach. Students achieve remarkable academic gains and acquire a range of social skills. Discipline problems disappear. And teaching and learning are fun! Too good to be true? No. The data is in! This MiniBook reveals the secret to success. With no change in your curriculum, and with no special materials, you will transform your class and your career. It's easy! Read this MiniBook and join the instructional revolution. 88 pages. 5" x 7" MiniBook.