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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
‐
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
‐
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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