Jigsaw and its positive impact
Jigsaw is a cooperative learning strategy that instructs every student of a home group to specialize in one side of a topic (for example, one group studies habitats of rainforest animals, another group studies predators of rainforest animals).
After completing the reading task, Students meet with members from other groups.
The members from other groups are given the same side of the topic. Students return to their home group after mastering the material. After returning, students teach the concept to their group members.
Each student in the homegroup plays a part in the topic's puzzle with this learning strategy.
They work together as a whole to create the complete jigsaw puzzle.
The method of using the jigsaw
a. Select the topic and discuss the strategy.
b. The homegroup consists of 4-6 people.
c. Selection of topic and assigning each topic to each students depending on their reading abilities
d. A definite amount of time will be allocated for completing the study material. An expert team will be created who will study the same topic.
e. Students will be given proper study material and researched content to get a good hold over the topic to become experts.
f. Making a summary chart for home groups as a guideline to prepare expert’s information report.
The positive impact of the Jigsaw game
This collaborative effort between the players increases the team spirit of the learners.
The interdependence between each other works as a powerful tool for learners to face difficulties with more strength.
The unified strength will help to overcome diverse challenges in an efficient way.
People have become selfish and fierce to fight individually to survive in this challenging world.
This socially cooperative team structure represents a sense of belonging, which is especially important nowadays to retain integrity and harmony.
Social and emotional learning is the essential components for a stable and robust personality formation. Brian.
Students can choose their desired field of study.
Playing Dungeons and dragons will be an excellent choice for the curriculum to hold over self-control, self-regulation, empathy, and good communication skills.
Playing the Jigsaw puzzle as a student evolves you as an emotionally stable human being.
This teamwork will have a significant impact on improving the communication skill ability of learners.
The jigsaw puzzle is a socially competitive game where the whole class sets a player’s responsibility in the game by analyzing his behavior.
Solving puzzles will efficiently sharpen the student's brain.
Solving the Jigsaw puzzle will make students intensely analytical and make student’s brains super active positively.
We hope this article helps you to know the Jigsaw puzzle and its advantages briefly. Parents can browse the internet to get detailed information about the puzzle game.