[CCoE Notice] NSM Faculty Development Workshop: Jigsaw

[ccoecomm at central.uh.edu]

Engineering Faculty are welcome to attend the below workshop from NSM:





Dear NSM Faculty:



An NSM Faculty Development Workshop on Using Jigsaw Activities to Improve Student Engagement and Learning will be led by Dr. Jenifer Gifford, Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology and Biochemistry, on Friday, November 18th at 11 am in STL 203.  A flyer is attached Please RSVP<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4FADAF28A5FB6-using1__;!!LkSTlj0I!GUb1DLfWMJJvitJRUFAsok8xWrY5yqFpynvjsNWksEHSrJpibXjIYo1z1uOROfoimwYIYC1EY3YKdriyhHaEsKpUOhk$  > if you plan to attend.



Faculty Development Workshop Series



“Using Jigsaw Activities to Improve Student Engagement and Learning”



Dr. Jenifer Gifford

Instructional Assistant Professor

Department of Biology and Biochemistry, UH



Jigsaw activities are a cooperative, active learning strategy that can be used to encourage in-depth exploration of a particular topic, develop student accountability and engagement, and build communication skills within diverse groups of students.



Jigsaw Workflow: A broad topic must be chosen and broken down into multiple subtopics. Students are divided into small groups of 3-5 to cooperatively become experts on a single assigned subtopic. After consulting with their expert groups and developing a streamlined report or presentation, one student from each expert group is sorted into sharing groups. Each expert is required to teach the others about their assigned subtopic, which provides a complete overview of the broad topic chosen for the jigsaw activity.



Scale: While easiest to conduct in small to medium sized lecture or laboratory classes (25-50 students), this activity has been scaled to large lecture classes with an enrollments of 150+ in 1000, 3000, and 4000 level classes.



Attendees to this faculty development workshop will learn how to approach setting up a jigsaw activity in their classroom, become familiar with the workflow of the activity during class, and will participate in a simplified and abbreviated jigsaw exercise.



Friday, November 18, 2022

11 am - noon

Science Teaching Laboratories (STL) Room 203

This is an in-person session.  Please RSVP<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4FADAF28A5FB6-using1__;!!LkSTlj0I!GUb1DLfWMJJvitJRUFAsok8xWrY5yqFpynvjsNWksEHSrJpibXjIYo1z1uOROfoimwYIYC1EY3YKdriyhHaEsKpUOhk$  >



Thanks,

Donna Pattison

__________________________________

Donna L. Pattison, Ph.D.

Instructional Professor

Department of Biology and Biochemistry

Assistant Dean for Student Success

College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

University of Houston

713-743-2642


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