jigsaw – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

The jigsaw method (with editable files to organise it)

mglessmer — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 07:49:05 +0000

The “jigsaw method” is used for cooperative learning (and Anja Møgelvang explains here what that is). In a nutshell, let’s say we have a group of 25 students. We can split them into 5 groups à 5 students each. That is their home group, that they sit at one group table with for the duration […]

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Structuring fieldwork as a jigsaw to increase student responsibility in, and ownership of, their projects

mglessmer — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 13:31:31 +0000

I am a huge fan of Kjersti‘s excellent teaching, it is always so inspiring! She, together with Hans-Christian, developed a jigsaw method to structure preparation for a student cruise, the cruise itself, and then writing of cruise reports. We wrote it up and submitted it for a forthcoming book on field teaching (which I will […]

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Using the “jigsaw” method for practicing solving problem-sets

mglessmer — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:38:24 +0000

A method to get all students engaged in solving problem sets. A very common problem during problem-set solving sessions is that instead of all students being actively involved in the exercise, in each group there is one student working on the problem set, while the rest of the group is watching, paying more or (more […]

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