We’re on a mission to

bring people together.

ME MAHI TĀTOU KIA KAHA TE IWI

Cooperation benefits everyone. Our structured approach has students working in pairs and learning teams, increasing engagement, excellence & equity.

Choose Kagan — learning is better together.

Nau Mai, Haere Mai

Welcome to Kagan Professional Development, your provider of all things Kagan in New Zealand.

With over 40 years combined experience worldwide, Kagan’s powerful pedagogy provides educators with practical strategies to ensure engagement, equity and excellence for all students.

Choose Kagan New Zealand to elevate your teaching and cultivate a community of engaged learners.

The power of Kagan Structures

is that they distil the best of educational theory and research into

very specific teaching strategies.

Our Services

Professional Development

Kagan’s workshops are unique in that you experience first-hand what you'll do with students in a classroom, ensuring teachers leave with the knowledge and tools to implement Kagan immediately. We walk the talk!

Introductory Sessions

Whole School Workshops

Kahui Akō Workshops

Tailored PLD

Leadership PLD

Open Workshops & Curriculum Specific PLD

Implementation

Kagan offers a comprehensive range of services to ensure full implementation, sustainable growth and continued improvement in of cooperative learning strategies. Building capacity is an important part of our follow-up support.

Need Analysis & Strategic Planning

In-Class Fishbowl Sessions

Leadership Training, Induction & Support

Coaching & Modelling

PLG Set Up & Templates

Curriculum Planning

Resources

Kagan provides a wide range of high-quality resources to support teachers implementing Kagan Structures. While schools have many resources easily adapted for Kagan, visit our store for additional options.

Workshop Texts

Classbuilding & Teambuilding Books

Curriculum Specific Books

Managemats, Answerboards, Erasers

Posters - Structures/Management

Timers, Spinners, Selectors, Chips, Cubes

  • Kagan builds empathy through structured class and team activities designed to help students truly understand and connect with different perspectives and experiences, thereby making it significantly more difficult to bully others.

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  • "Culturally responsive, relationship based pedagogy...methods include...co-operative learning, student-generated questions, and narrative pedagogy" -Russell Bishop, Teaching to the North-East

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  • "What we resolve to do in school only makes sense when considered in the broader context of what the society intends through its educational investment in the young." -Jerome S. Bruner, The Culture of Education. What dispositions & skills do our learners need?

  • "..children aren't born to learn in ways we want them to. Our brain is primarily a social machine and learns by watching, imitating and interacting." -Hattie & Yates, Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn

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  • "Of all the educational innovations we have reviewed for this book, cooperative learning has the best, largest empirical base." - Ellis & Fouts, Research on Educational Interventions.

    readings and articles

  • Despite the previous slide..."Cooperative learning, as a set of strategies is woefully under-used in education." Russell Bishop, Teaching to the North-East

    The rationale behind kagan structures

  • 'Call-on-One' or 'Whole Class Question Answer' is still the dominant teaching strategy in many classrooms. Voluntary participation is inequitable and widens the achievement gap.

    Why call on one when you can engage everyone?

Let’s get

together

Please feel free to get in touch with us either by sending an email, or by completing our online form so we can discuss your specific professional learning and development (PLD) needs in detail.

We eagerly look forward to the opportunity to make a positive difference for both your students and your staff.

Alternatively, you could call Jennie - 0274944600