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Jigsaw was originally developed by Elliot Aronson (1978). It has since been adapted by a number of teachers at all levels in a variety of ways. Essentially, it is a cooperative learning lesson design that takes the place the place of a lecture. Each student within a team has a piece of the information to be learned by all students, and each student is responsible for teaching their section to the other students on the team. When all the pieces are put together, the students should have the whole picture - hence the name, Jigsaw. This is one of my favorite cooperative learning strategies. I think it's a great way to cover narrative in my classes. I also have found that when students are teaching each other, they come to understand the material in a way that's far deeper than when they listen to me explain it, or when then they simply discuss it.
©1996, Susan Ledlow, Arizona State University 1
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