Students can use this type of organizer as a flowchart to organize thoughts as a prewriting activity or as part of a classroom activity that makes students responsible for a portion of a classroom assignment (e.g.
jigsaw technique).
Next, try using a cooperative learning strategy like
the Jigsaw technique where all students must work together in order to complete a given task.
Many educators have found
the Jigsaw technique to be an effective teaching strategy when working in small groups.
Included: Berg's students» reactions to a teaching method that challenges them to create their own learning, plus tips for using
the jigsaw technique.
Included: Berg's students» reactions to a teaching method that challenges them to create their own learning and tips for using
the jigsaw technique.
Included: Students» reactions to a teaching method that challenges them to create their own learning, and tips for using
the jigsaw technique.
Not exact matches
This week, at the International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation
Techniques, Sanchez and his student Nathan Beckmann presented a new system, dubbed
Jigsaw, that monitors the computations being performed by a multicore chip and manages cache memory accordingly.
Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, the site offers free resources, tips, links, and information about the «
jigsaw» cooperative learning
technique.
The «
Jigsaw» Technique The «jigsaw» cooperative learning strategy helps students create their own lea
Jigsaw»
Technique The «
jigsaw» cooperative learning strategy helps students create their own lea
jigsaw» cooperative learning strategy helps students create their own learning.
A
technique called the «
jigsaw method» provided the backdrop for the dynamic and engaging lesson that her students still recall!
«
Jigsaw is an intricate
technique that takes some practice from you and your students before it seems to gel.
Content may be chunked, shared through graphic organizers, addressed through
jigsaw groups, or used to provide different
techniques for solving equations.
Jigsaw, says Gehlbach, is one example of a cooperative learning
technique.
Newmann and Thompson hypothesized that the
Jigsaw treatments were relatively less effective than the other
techniques because they did not meet these criteria.
Slavin (1989) reviewed a larger set of cooperative learning studies and concluded, as did Newmann and Thompson, that
Jigsaw is academically the least effective of the well - known cooperative learning
techniques.
Note 1Two excellent resources for teachers who want to use cooperative learning
techniques, including
Jigsaw II, are Slavin's Using Student Team Learning (1986) and Cooperative Learning: Theory, Research, and Practice (1990).
His overall images of nuns, bums, sailfish, and soldiers never seem as important as the
jigsaw - puzzle or stained - glass - window configurations of pure color, built - up areas of silhouetted figures, airbrushed faces, and other
techniques that send the eye racing around his surfaces, trying to take it all in.
You can measure the location of the switches and then cut out the hole with a
jigsaw, or use this
technique for marking where the outlet is with lipstick.