Through this involvement, a teacher can make a huge impact in a student's life, (Wong 2002). Spencer Kagan believes that the levels of student participation should be equal in order to maximize student potential. With all students actively engaging at the same level, each student will increase their capability of understanding the subject material. He provides several techniques to incorporate students participating with each other. By using techniques such as worksheets encouraging communication between students, each individual student engages in a cooperative style of learning the material at hand, (Fortenburg 1998). Spencer Kagan spreads his own idea of cooperation learning through technique workshops throughout the country.

Like Harry Wong, Kagan encourages cooperation not only between teachers and students, but most importantly, between student and student. By using group activities, Kagan's method forces integration within students which then ensures that every student in incorporated...

This shows that cooperation within student classes is a contributing factor to the effectiveness of the lesson plan. With this knowledge, teachers can then trust group activities to do more than just provide a fun social alternative to lectures.
Works Cited

Fortenberry, Gary. "Kagan Cooperative Learning Techniques." Woodrow Wilson

National Leadership Program for Teachers. Found at http://wwwWoodrow.org/teachers/bi/1998/presentations/fortenberry

Kagan, Spencer. Cooperative Learning. Kagan Publishing. 1993.

Wong, Harry. "Effective Practices Apply to All Teachers." Teachers.Net. October

Found at http://www.teachers.net/wong/OCT02

Wong, Harry. "Seven-Year Summary of Articles, 200-2007." Teachers.net. June 2007.

Found at http://www.JUN07