Kagan Structures
In Kagan structure, students get into pairs and take turns going back and forth responding orally to a question posed by the teacher that has multiple possible answers.
What is RallyRobin?
In the Layered Curriculum, students select tasks based on their interests or strengths, giving them more autonomy over their learning.
What is Voice and Choice?
The process by which a group of four students become a cooperative and caring group of active learners where the task is fun, nonacademic and easy for everyone.
What is TeamBuilding?
Lessons taught in 10-minute segments with time in between for students to engage with the content.
What is chunk and chew?
Module level objectives break down skills and knowledge into very specific, discrete skills students should acquire by the end of a particular class, course, or program.
What are student learning outcomes?
This Kagan structure requires students to stand up and work in pairs to test each other using questions provided by the instructor, exchange questions, and move to another person and repeat.
What is Quiz-Quiz-Trade?
The Layered Curriculum is a teaching method that focuses on the needs of the student, rather than the teacher.
What is student-centered?
The process by which a room full of individuals become a caring community of active learners by standing up, moving around and interacting.
What is classbuilding?
The four types of learning styles by which students prefer to learn.
What is visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic?
Assessments at regular intervals of a student’s progress, with accompanying feedback to help the student’s performance and provide direction for improvement.
What is formative assessment?
In this cooperative learning Kagan structure, each student in a group takes turns responding to a question or contributing an idea, ensuring all group members participate equally.
What is Round Robin?
In the Layered Curriculum this letter grade is not an option
What is a D or F?
To ensure your activities are representative of Cooperative Learning, there should be Positive interdependence, Individual accountability, Equal participation, and Simultaneous interaction.
What is PIES?
This graphic organizer involves visually organizing information to help students make connections and enhance understanding?
What is mindmapping?
Assessment or evaluation designed to provide information; used in making judgments about a student’s achievement at the end of a period of instruction, for the purpose communicating the overall student academic performance.
What is summative assessment?
In this Kagan structure students work simultaneously with each person putting their ideas on pieces of paper and place them in the center of the table for others to see.
What is Jot Thoughts?
In a Layered Curriculum, students are given assignments that appeal to this, meaning they are able to choose activities that cater to their preferred ways of learning, whether visual, auditory, or kinesthetic.
What are learning styles?
Students’ ability to focus is normally one minute per year of age. The maximum time for the adult learner is 15-20 minutes.
What is attention span?
The least brain-friendly strategy is requiring students to remember facts regardless of understanding the information.
What is rote memory or recall?
This type of assessment refers to a variety of ways to assess a student’s demonstration of knowledge and skills; may include (original) performances, projects, exhibitions, and portfolios.
What is authentic assessment?
In pairs, students share with a partner for a predetermined time while the partner listens. The partners switch roles, and the other partner shares for the same predetermined time.
What is a Timed Pair Share?
In the Layered Curriculum, higher order thinking occurs in the A layer at the two highest of Bloom's Taxonomy.
What is create and evaluate?
Howard Gardner introduced 8 ways students learn, understand and apply knowledge and skills.
What are the multiple intelligences?
In her book, Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites, Marcia Tate describe this number of brain-friendly strategies.
What are 20 brain-friendly strategies?
The process by which course activities and assessments match up with the course objectives and learning outcomes.
What is alignment?