Start your junior students on the path to school success by nurturing important social and academic skills.

Kagan Structures for Juniors: Engagement! Learning! Social Skills!

4 Day workshop (can be taken day by day in order, or as an academy)

Kagan Structures for Juniors

Transform your junior classroom with proven cooperative learning strategies that set every student up for success. This dynamic workshop equips you with practical Kagan Structures specifically designed for New Entrant to Year 3 learners.

Your students arrive with diverse abilities, experiences, and readiness levels. Through targeted Kagan Structures, you'll learn to create an inclusive environment where every child can thrive both academically and socially. This workshop provides concrete tools for:

- Building essential classroom management techniques

- Developing effective pairwork, teamwork and collaboration skills

- Fostering clear communication and active listening

- Enhancing critical thinking through age-appropriate activities

- Supporting content mastery across the curriculum

You'll gain immediately implementable strategies to establish positive routines, nurture social development, and create a cooperative classroom culture. Our research-backed approach helps you differentiate instruction while maintaining high engagement levels for all learners.

This hands-on workshop is specifically tailored for teachers of New Entrant to Year 3 students. You'll leave equipped with a repertoire of practical activities and structures to enhance both academic achievement and social skill development in your classroom.

Join us to elevate your teaching practice and create an environment where every young learner can flourish.

Let us know if you’d like to be kept in the loop about this workshop, or if you’d like to bring it to your school or kāhui akō.

Workshop Highlights

  • Learn the best Kagan Structures to use with younger children

  • Master simple management techniques that make your class hum

  • Get your little ones off to the right start with terrific teamwork skills

  • Meet your youngsters’ need to talk, move, and play in a productive way

  • Create a cooperative and caring class where everyone wants to be

  • Boost comprehension and retention by engaging their minds and bodies

  • Use fun and easy strategies to reach high standards for all students

  • “I came here hoping to learn how I could apply the Kagan approach in an early childhood context and I leave feeling confident I can do just that... Can't wait to use all I have learned with my little ones!”

    —ANNIE KLAUZ, TEACHER

  • “I love the great ideas and explicit steps to teaching our little ones these structures. It will be so helpful for the children to take a little more responsibility for their education.”

    —MISTY DAY, NE TEACHER

  • “So grateful my unique needs for little ones were met.”

    —JAMIE MONROE, NEW ENTRANT TEACHER

  • “Kagan Structures for Little Ones gave me a variety of learning tools to put into my tool belt to strengthen the instructional strategies I use to increase student learning in my kindergarten classroom.”

    -MICHELLE DAVIES, KINDERGARTEN/NE TEACHER

  • “Awesome! Just what I needed to bring Kagan to a younger level.”

    -CONNIE JOHNSON, KINDERGARTEN TEACHER

  • “Wonderful! Thank you for making Kagan more doable for kindergarten students. Great, great, great!”

    — SANDY HEWITT, KINDERGARTEN TEACHER