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What is Jig Saw

Chapter 65
Handbook of Research on Didactic Strategies and Technologies for Education: Incorporating Advancements
A teaching technique invented by E. Aronson in 1971; students are divided into small groups; every member works on a part of the general topic; afterwards, every student leaves his group and builds an “expert group” with members of other groups, who have his same sub-topic; in the third phase, students return to their original group and teach others, using their improved knowledge.
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Proposing Jig Saw Method to Teach Latin Literary Texts in Small Classes
Andrea Balbo (Università di Torino, Italy)
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2122-0.ch065
Abstract
This chapter aims to investigate the opportunity of employing Jig Saw in teaching Latin literary texts, giving also an example of possible activity with Caesarian texts and concluding that, also in teaching Latin literature, Jig Saw (and Cooperative Learning - CL) could be usefully proposed to teachers attention. At the end of the chapter, the author reviews some web tools for Latin, in order to focus their usefulness for a CL activity and to evaluate their possible development strategies.
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