Students in threes, two sat facing, one slightly offset –not engaged but observing.  How does it work?

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How it works: 
Once groups have carried out a task, one person from each group is selected as an ‘envoy’ 
and moves to a new group to explain and summarise, and to find out what the new group 
thought, decided or achieved. The envoy then returns to the original group and feeds back. 
This is an effective way of avoiding tedious and repetitive ‘reporting back’ sessions. It also 
puts a ‘press’ on the envoy’s use of language and creates groups of active listeners.
JIGSAWING
Purpose
: 
Structured way of dealing with a series of questions and promoting team work. 
 
Set Up
:
 
Pods around the room of groups 3
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4 
 
How it works: 

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The advantage of a ‘jigsaw’ is that it offers a structure for group work, and promotes a range 
of 
speaking and listening. 
• The teacher divides the whole class into small groups (commonly four pupils per group). 
These are teacher
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initiated in order to make each group reflect the balance of the whole class 
– gender, ability, attitude. 
• Each 
Home
Group
is given a common task. Handouts are employed in order to set the task. 
Reading material is kept to a manageable length and complexity. If the home groups are of 
four, then there are four questions or tasks within the main task – one for each member of the 
group. Questions or tasks are allocated within each group, through negotiation between the 
pupils. 
• All the pupils who have selected a particular question or task regroup into 
Expert
groups
and work together on what is now a common problem and outcome. By the time this stage of 
the session is completed, each has become an expert on this matter, through discussion and 
collaboration with the other ‘experts’. 
• Original groups reform. Dissemination begins. The home groups are set a final task. This 
could be a group outcome, or an individual task. The crucial element is to ensure that pupils 
have to draw on the combined ‘wisdom’ of the home group in order to complete it 
successfully. 

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