These are the show notes for my latest episode of The #PhysEd Show Podcast. Take a listen to the episode by using the player below or subscribe to the show in your favourite podcast app! Subscribe to The #PhysEd Show in all of its formats to make sure you never miss out! The Podcast: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify The Vlog: Subscribe on YouTube Live Episodes: Subscribe on Facebook Show Notes One of the things I learned from hosting last year’s season of #pechat – which focused entirely on the Danielson Framework for Teacher Evaluation – was that we should always be working towards putting our students in the driver’s seat of their own learning. It can be tricky to design lessons and instruction that not only keeps students engaged in their learning but that really helps create a shift from teacher-centred experiences to student-centred ones. I know that this is something that I have struggled with in my teaching, especially in lessons and units that are very content-heavy in which I feel like I really need to be guiding my students through the learning step-by-step to ensure that it is all being properly introduced. In those situations, I’ve found that the jigsaw method – a cooperative learning strategy that was first introduced to me by Ash Casey and Vicky Goodyear back in 2011 – can really go a long way in setting up a lesson structure in which I can remove myself from the equation a bit all while still having my students highly engaged and taking ownership of both their classmates’ learning as well as their own. What is Jigsaw Learning? Jigsaw learning is a cooperative learning strategy that was developed by Elliot Aronson in the early 1970s. The power of jigsaw is that it is designed to have... Continue Reading