Jigsaw
Jigsaw
This strategy will help students to:
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critically analyse, evaluate and apply ideas from a large amount of information
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participate and cooperate in small groups
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accept responsibility for their own learning.
Implementation
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Divide the class into equal groups with no more than six students in each. These become ‘home groups'.
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It may help to give each student a coloured dot, badge or sash to identify home groups.
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Every member of the home group has a different aspect of the topic to discuss or research.
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Students form ‘expert' groups, where all members of the group are discussing or researching the same aspect of the topic. Their job is to prepare a report to take back to their home group.
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Students move back to their original home group.
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Experts then report on their aspect of the topic.
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Allow time to discuss findings as whole class.