ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the Cooperative Learning Structure ‘Jigsaw’ and demonstrates the Jigsaw classroom. Included in this chapter are a number of examples and classroom resources to aid you to be a competent user of this approach inside one lesson. Specifically, this chapter gives numerous examples of how the Cooperative Learning Structure ‘Jigsaw’ works and how it is able to use the five elements of Cooperative Learning. In a step-by-step approach it shows how practitioners can implement and understand the five elements. For example, in using groups of students as the pieces of a puzzle in learning, this chapter shows how a lesson can be taken apart and then put together in numerous ways to aid the students in learning about and through physical activity. It shows how the students become Individually Accountable for their piece of the jigsaw and how they are also responsible to one another (or Positively Interdependent) for their piece – for without it, the picture (or in this case the learning) is incomplete. The chapter shows how students can use Jigsaw to develop their Face-to-Face Interactions and learn about working cooperatively in small groups. Finally, it demonstrates the importance of Group Processing in the co-construction of knowledge.
