How-To: The Jigsaw Method, Revisited
An excellent video on an older, cooperative learning strategy that researchers say remains highly effective.
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Jennifer Gonzalez鈥檚 popular site Cult of Pedagogy provides 鈥攁 peer-to-peer learning strategy鈥攖hat we鈥檝e seen on the web. While the method has been around since at least the 1970s, it's still a relevant approach grounded in evidence.
In their seminal review of聽learning research, first published as the book in 2008 and updated periodically in , John Hattie and Gregory Donoghue describe the jigsaw activity as having the 鈥減otential to considerably accelerate student achievement.鈥� They noted that it was the only instructional strategy they looked at that worked across all four of the crucial 鈥渓earning quadrants,鈥� moving children from 鈥渁cquiring learning鈥� through 鈥渃onsolidating deep learning.鈥澛�
This is a longer video, clocking in at 6:22, but it covers the details of the strategy, which can feel a little complex to the uninitiated, and provides some in-classroom troubleshooting for known pain points, too.聽