PIGS Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Presentations

Jigsaw Expert Presentation Notes:

Positive Interdependence

Individual Accountability

Group Processing

Social Skills

GROUP PROCESSING: Angie

• Group processing: Group members analyze their own and the group’s ability to work together.
• Purposes of group processing: Allow the group to improve its work together continuously over time, focus attention on group members’ contributions in order to increase individual accountability, make the learning process simpler through streamlining, reduces or eliminates actions that don’t contribute positively to the group’s learning, and group members analyze their own and the group’s ability to work together
• When does group processing takes place during a cooperative lesson? Mostly in the closure of a lesson
• Foundations for group processing:

*Feedback: Each student in the group gives & receives positive feedback on their contribution to the group. Make sure the feedback is positive this way it generates positivity towards improving performance.

*Reflection: Students are able to analyze and reflect on the feedback their group has given.

*Improvement Goals: Each student will set goals for themselves

*Celebration: Celebrating and getting excited for accomplishments

• Video: Example of group processing in a live lesson and the importance of giving feedback in the closure (3 pluses & a wish)
• Showed examples of forms for children to give one another feedbacks

SOCIAL SKILLS: Olivia

• Forming skills: Taking turns, using quiet voices
• Functioning skills: Skills needed to manage the group's activities to complete a task
• Formulating skills

1. Make sure students understand the need for the teamwork skill
2. Make sure students understand what the cooperative learning skill is, how and when to use it
3. Set up practice situations & encourage skill mastery
4. Give students feedback on their use of the skill

Stages of Skill Development

1. Awkward 
2. Phony (when students use the skill but feel inauthentic 
3. Mechanical
4. Integrated

Checking for understanding: eye contact, leaning forward, interested, expression, open gestures & postures, can you show me? Give us some examples please?

Contributing Ideas

Outcome of social skills:

1. Personal development & identity
2. Enhance "employability, productivity, & career success"
3. quality of life

Face-to-face promotive interactions: Students promote each other's success by sharing resources. Students are helping, supporting & engaged. The student can orally explain how to solve a problem and students can help each other connect present & past learning.

COOPERATIVE LEARNING LESSON PLAN: Alexus

• Example of difference between direct instruction and cooperative learning
• Direct Instruction: The content is the main goal, centered, one academic goal, lower level thinking

• Cooperative learning: The content AND working together is the goal, group work, critical thinking skills, one academic goal and one social skill goal, no guided practice
• When distributing materials, you should only give one set of materials per group
• Doing this enforces working together through positive interdependence
• Closure of the lesson: Direct Instruction- Recap the main concepts of the lesson and check for understanding, teacher-centered
• Cooperative learning closure: students present their work

Jigsaw Steps:

• Get with your base groups
• Every member gets a piece of the puzzle/information (topic or job)
• Students group off into expert groups and get ready
• Back to your base groups
• Teach your group your lesson
• Assessment to hold everyone accountable for their piece of the work

Reflection on Jigsaw Teaching Methods:

• Text should be 24-30 size for presentations
• Make animations of the lines so that they do not see all of the text on the slide right away
• Mute parts of the video to ask what is happening in each scene. This is a pre & post assessment: perfect evidence of student's learning