Group 3 (Faizah, Hasan and Ihsan)

Name: Nur Faizah

Hazan Zainuddin

Nurul Ihsan

Defined broadly, Jigsaw is a grouping strategy in which the members of the class are organized into “jigsaw” groups. The students are then reorganized into “expert” groups containing one member from each jigsaw group. The members of the expert group work together to learn the material or solve the problem, then return to their “jigsaw” groups to share their learning. In this way, the work of the expert groups is quickly disseminated throughout the class, with each person taking responsibility for sharing a piece of the puzzle.

Jigsaw can be used for sharing different solutions to the same problem or for dividing up research responsibilities.

Introduced by Aronson (1978), jigsaw is an efficient way for students to become engaged in their learning, learn a lot of material quickly, share information with other groups, minimize listening time, and be individually accountable for their learning. Since each group needs its members to do well in order for the whole group to do well, jigsaw maximizes interaction and establishes an atmosphere of cooperation and respect for other students. Teachers who listen in to the sharing of one of the jigsaw groups can quickly hear what each of the original groups has been doing.

Aronson compared classes that used the cooperative jigsaw approach with classes in which students worked in competitive groups. He found that children in the jigsaw classrooms outperformed children in competitive classrooms in terms of mastery of classroom material. Black and Hispanic children performed significantly better in jigsaw classrooms than in competitive classrooms. 

Teams Games Tournament is one of the team learning strategies. It increased basic skills, students’ achievement, positive interactions between students, acceptance of mainstreamed classmates and self -esteem. The writer wants to describe about the definition of TGT (Teams Games Tournament), and

also the usage TGT in teaching process, especially in teaching vocabulary.

Here, the writer has two problem statements that want to describe. First, what the

definition of team games tournament methods is. Second, how should the teacher

do in using team games tournament method to teach vocabulary in the

elementary school? By collecting references from many sources, the writer gets conclusion that TGT (Teams Games

Tournament) has advantages and disadvantages. To implement TGT (team game tournament) requires good preparation, so the teacher must be able to determine or

choose a topic that can really be applied to the TGT model of cooperative learning in the learning process in order to obtain optimal results.