The Jigsaw
Quick Strategies Series: Part 2
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2 min readOct 20, 2018
This technique fosters expertise in a topic, group work and presentation of information. It also gives students the opportunity to work with others with whom they might not work if they had a choice while at the same time, building some time for them to experience teaching as well.
- Divide the students in the class into groups of 5 or 6. Each student of the group is responsible for learning a specific part of the topic and teach it to the rest of the group.
- Give students time to become familiar with and understand their given part of the topic. They could review notes in this time, for example.
- Expert groups meet up! — Let the students with the same part of the topic meet and discuss what they have learned.
- Get back into original group where each student had a different part. Each student should not present what they learned about their part, summarizing their knowledge and their expert group’s discussion.
Enhancement: Get each group to create a poster, report, visual… some sort of artifact to represent their collective knowledge of the topic.
Check out Jigsaw website for tips and information!
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