Jigsaw is a strategy of cooperative learning to be applied in classrooms in which a topic or content to be learned by the students is divided into sections and students are provided with opportunities to share their new learning into groups.
There are almost seven steps to successfully apply this strategy in classrooms. In step one, the subject matter of a topic to be taught is divided into sections looking at the strength of the class. Then in the second step, groups are formed according to the number of sections of subject matter such a way that the number of sections, number of groups and number of members in each group are equal. These initial groups are known as home groups. In step three, numbers are allotted to the members in each home group and ask the members to remember their allotted number. Then in step 4, teachers move the learners into other groups which are formed with respect to numbers assigned in home group. It means that in the second group same allotted numbers in different will form a group. For example number 1 of each home group will form a group and number 2 of each group will form another group. These groups are called expert groups. In step five, the sections of the subject matter of the topic being taught is distributed in all expert groups to read and discuss to acquire new learning. This way all the members of the expert groups need to have in-depth understanding of the given reading material so that they will present their learning with the members in their home groups later on. In step six, learners (experts) return to their home groups and there they present their learning with the other members of their home groups what they have learned in their expert groups. After that the last step contains to make the students dispersed from the groups and the teachers carry out the overall assessment of students’ learning during the applied Jigsaw strategy.