Kagan in Art Education (K-12)

The three most important parts of using Kagan in your art room are appropriate timing, simple activities, and repetition. 

1. Add Kagan where it belongs, the goal is to engage students to better this learning experience. For example, I use Kagan mostly when teaching art history, assessments, and art analysis/critique. I use no more than ten minutes of class time. Students don't even notice they are learning more than what I say.  I use Find Someone Who to help student talk about their artwork, identify details, and use language with each other. 

2. Like I said, I use ten minutes of class to teach my kagan and run my strategies. Why? Because my kids don't want to use half a class period to do a kagan; they want to make art. Simply using Kagan allows me to plan and use it for almost every class. This means my students are engaged in every part of my lesson. 

3. I re-use the same kagan for weeks, and students learn it so I spend lesson time reminding them how to do the kagn strategy and more time building their skills. Pick on Kagan and do it over and over, if you or your students don't like it then pick a different one.