A Periodical Report on the Jigsaw Technique A re-emerging technique in today's classrooms is the jigsaw technique. The jigsaw classroom was first used in 1971 in Austin, Texas Aronson. It was developed as a way to reduce racial tension in a newly desegregated school district. After many fights and an environment of constant hostility, a research was conducted. The main contributing factor to this hostility was determined to be the competitive environment, between the newly mixed races, in the classroom. In an attempt to move away from the more competitive classroom and to achieve a more cooperative one, Professor...
member. Every member is valued the same, as the group must rely on each member to obtain the full amount of information needed to pass a test. The jigsaw technique also allows members of a group to get to know each other regardless of race or sex and also regardless of whether or not the members would have spoken outside of the group. This in turn teaches understanding of each other and ones background. For these reasons alone, jigsaw is a worth while technique that I feel would be an invaluable part of any class that I would teach.