If you are looking for a high impact learning strategy, take a look at the Jigsaw method. It is a cooperative learning activity involving group work.
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Dr. Elliot Aronson developed the Jigsaw Method as a strategy to increase cooperation at a time when classrooms were plagued by hostility due to classroom desegregation. The Jigsaw Method both had students standout as unique entities as well as essential group members.
Students become experts on a topic but then must teach what they know to the rest of their group. During an intermediate step, the experts come together to improve upon what has been learned during independent study.
Dr. John Hattie conducted extensive metastudy analysis to include the Jigsaw Method. He discovered that the effect size for the Jigsaw method was very large (1.2). Out of 130 learning factors, the Jigsaw method ranked 7th.
In this episode, we look at the Jigsaw Method in more depth.
Additional Reading
- The Jigsaw Classroom
- Why Use Jigsaws
- Reflections: The Jigsaw Method in My Workshop
- 4 Things You Don’t Know About the Jigsaw Method
- The Teacher Toolkit: Jigsaw
- The Jigsaw Method (Video)
- The Jigsaw Method Teaching Strategy
- Jigsaw (teaching technique)
- Jigsaw Strategy (PDF)
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