On this page, you will find a walkthrough of the background and application of a teaching strategy implemented for the Connecting the Stages of Second Language Acquisition Micro-Credential. The authoring teacher utilized Jigsaw Groupings to encourage cooperation and student-directed learning of science concepts. Jigsaw groups leverage small student groups and differentiated learning activities to enhance students’ learning experience. A key feature of Jigsaw groups is each learning group comprises different designated “experts” from initial groupings on the different components of the learning objectives who subsequently teach everyone in the Jigsaw group. Support strategies for MLLs such as providing sentence stems, diagrams, and vocabulary banks can be easily integrated into Jigsaw learning activities.

For more details on implementing the jigsaw strategy, please visit John Carlson’s article that is referenced this Spotlight