What is the Jigsaw method

Instructional strategy I will be focusing on is the jigsaw method. The jigsaw model by Elliot, Aronson, and colleagues was developed in the early 1970s to help students and teachers successfully navigate newly desegregated schools Snapes (1978).

Jigsaw is a cooperative learning Strategy where each student in a group takes responsibility for one chunk of the content, then teaches it to the other group members. The jigsaw works like a puzzle. Students fit their individual chunks together to form a complete body of knowledge. There is a large body of literature by Johnson and Johnson (2001) and Slavin (1996), which indicates that students improve both academically and socially when students are given the opportunities to interact with each other to achieve shared goals.