The Jigsaw Classroom

In the jigsaw classroom, students take turns teaching and helping one another. When tried in recently desegregated class rooms, the jigsaw approach has generated impressive results. Studies have shown that learning stimulated significantly more friendship and less prejudice between ethnic groups. Self esteem, liking for school and test scores improved for minority students. And the white students benefited too. Their self esteem and liking for school went up, and their test performance was at least as high as that of whites in the traditional classes.