Managing Jigsaw

The general steps are as follows:

1. Divide students into groups of five or six.

2. Assign a group leader.
3. Divide the assignment up into sections that equal the number of students in each group.
4. Give each student in each group one segment of this topic to learn.
5. Students take the required time to learn their part of the topic, and form a second set of
groups based on the topic.
6. Students take turns sharing what they've learned and fill in any gaps, becoming experts
on their part of the lesson and rehearsing what they will be presenting to their main
group.
7. Each group member then returns to his/her original group and teaches what he's/she's
learned (Jigsaw in 10 Easy Steps).

The general steps are as follows:

1. Divide students into groups of five or six.

2. Assign a group leader.
3. Divide the assignment up into sections that equal the number of students in each group.
4. Give each student in each group one segment of this topic to learn.
5. Students take the required time to learn their part of the topic, and form a second set of
groups based on the topic.
6. Students take turns sharing what they've learned and fill in any gaps, becoming experts
on their part of the lesson and rehearsing what they will be presenting to their main
group.

Each group member then returns to his/her original group and teaches what he's/she's learned
(Jigsaw in 10 Easy Steps).
 Friday, 8th April, 2022
Lecturer: Rui Abilio, MA
TOPIC: Media Transfer Activities
- Texts transformed into: maps, pictures, posters, diary entries, letters etc;
- Texts transformed from one genre to another: story to poem, story to play etc

Lead in

 How do people transfer skills and knowledge from one situation to another?
 How can we teach for transfer?

Lect. explains:

In-class and out-of-class exercises are one of the most used ways by the lecturers to make the
students practice about the lasts lessons. Some of this type of exercises could be:
- Problems
- Study cases
- Short questions
- Tests
- Search for a specific information
- Draw-up a report
- Make a summary
- Brief oral presentations
- Brief writing exercise

How does it work?

Transfer is the ability to extend what one has learned in one context to new contexts. In
some sense, the whole point of school learning is to be able to transfer what is learned to a
wide variety of contexts outside of school. Yet the ability to transfer information or ideas is
not a given. Quite often, information learned in a specific way, or in a particular context, does
not transfer to another.

For example, students may memorize vocabulary words for a quiz, but they cannot use the
words in their writing. Students may learn language facts, but they do not know how to apply
these concepts when they are confronted with a different kind of problem outside of school.
Students may conjugate verbs in a second language, but they cannot remember how to use
them correctly in conversation.

If the ultimate goal of schooling is to help students transfer what they have learned in school to
the everyday settings of home, community, and work, we have much to learn from the
nonschool environments where people work.

Settings:

 emphasize collaboration.
 involve more “mental work
 Abstract reasoning is emphasized in school, to contextualized reasoning used in the
communities.