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for future reference on the NGSS

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A Framework for K-12 Science Education , the Next Generation Science Standards promote a three-dimensional approach to classroom instruction that is student-centered and progresses coherently from grades K-12.

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Founded on the groundbreaking report A Framework for K-12 Science Education, the Next Generation Science Standards promote a three-dimensional approach to classroom instruction that is student-centered and progresses coherently from grades K-12.

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The video link above demonstrates how to use jigsaw in a middle school language arts class and how it helps students understand complex text. It states how giving students a responsibility and allowing then to be the experts in a group helps build their comprehension skills, confidence, and social skills.

The picture above and below are two ways that demonstrate how this strategy works. There is one expert in a group and they share their findings with their new group, which for ELLs makes them accountable for their learning as well as gives them the collaboration and communication aspect to deepen there understanding and gain confidence in sharing to their group! These are two good diagrams that teachers could use for visual aids in the classroom to help student understand how to do the strategy. (Jigsaw, 2013).

​In this video, to the right, it goes through how to do/use the jigsaw strategy. It goes through home groups and expert groups as well as how to pick out articles related to the topic. Then the strategy is demonstrated in a classroom. This video will help teachers realize how to effectively engage students while using the jigsaw strategy. This would be a good video to show students before actually doing an activity, because then they can see how it words, and this will eliminate some questions.

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Justification: The jigsaw strategy is a student-centered strategy that increases students' participation, which creates a supportive and motivating environment. This strategy incorporates reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills, but it also develops students' interpersonal skills and encourages them to communicate and collaborate with their peers. Reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills are necessary in developing for student literacy development.
Aronson along with others from University of Texas and the University of California had the original research that gave credibility to the jigsaw approach for reading comprehension. He states that having student's complete jigsaws allows them to build confidences and emphasizes cooperative learning in the classroom. By providing students an opportunity to actively help each other it build comprehension, social skills, as well as helps them look at the same information differently (Aronson, 2015).The benefits of using Jigsaw for reading compression is it encourages students to share ideas and increased their learning through the communication and discussion with others. It teaches students cooperation, responsibility, teamwork, critical thinking and social skills, which are all skills that students need to be successful in the twenty-first century (Clarke, 2013).

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