Jigsaw Learning

Hi all, I did some reading about jigsaw learning on this website. Next week I'm planning on using this idea in reading. Each student only reads one page of the text so they really have to collaborate to gain an understanding of the whole text. I also like it because students from different groups who are reading the same page get to support each other. This means that students can choose their groups but also get to work with a range of different people. I'll let you know how we get on...

Collaboration Rubric

I was given a great reading around collaboration. Using the rubric on this site made me realise I was controlling too much of the planning when my students were collaborating. We carried out a science investigation and I encouraged groups to visualise the experiment and plan for the different jobs that would need to be completed. Here is the doc...



We also happened to have our assembly in the same week so I threw all of the planning and organising to the class and they collaborated to complete five different (but cohesive) items with minimal planning from me. Here are our slides...