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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Engineering Faculty are welcome to attend the below workshop from NSM:</span></div>
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<font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear NSM Faculty:</span></font></p>
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<font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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 18<sup>th</sup> at 11 am in STL 203. A flyer is attached Please
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<b><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-weight:bold">Faculty Development Workshop Series</span></font></b></p>
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<b><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-weight:bold">“Using Jigsaw Activities to Improve Student Engagement and Learning”</span></font></b></p>
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<b><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-weight:bold">Dr. Jenifer Gifford</span></font></b></p>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Instructional Assistant Professor</span></font></p>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Department of Biology and Biochemistry, UH</span></font></p>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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
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<b><u><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-weight:bold">Jigsaw Workflow:</span></font></u></b><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> 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.
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<b><u><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-weight:bold">Scale</span></font></u></b><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">: 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.
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<font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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. </span></font></p>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Friday, November 18, 2022</span></font></p>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">11 am - noon</span></font></p>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Science Teaching Laboratories (STL) Room 203</span></font></p>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">This is an in-person session. Please
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<font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Donna Pattison</span></font></p>
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<font size="2" face="Calibri Light"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Instructional Professor</span></font></p>
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<font size="2" face="Calibri Light"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Department of Biology and Biochemistry</span></font></p>
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<font size="2" face="Calibri Light"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Assistant Dean for Student Success</span></font></p>
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<font size="2" face="Calibri Light"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics</span></font></p>
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