A Study about the Effects of Jigsaw-JPE in Physical Education in the Middle Grade of Elementary School
through the Unit of Modified Prell Ball for Facilitating Student Interaction
2018 Volume 38 Issue 1 Pages 1-20
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2018 Volume 38 Issue 1 Pages 1-20
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects for facilitating student interaction in physical education which applied Jigsaw-JPE proposed by Tohkairin et al. (2017) in Japanese elementary school. The participants were nineteen students of 4th grade and a male teacher who have experienced 16-year teaching, and the unit focused on modified prell ball. As the results, the student interaction was facilitated by using JigsawJPE in the unit, and implementation in 4th grade was possible although few studies have focused on younger children as participants for Jigsaw method in PE. However, it should be emphasized that to set easy and clear tasks for student learning is needed when Jigsaw method is implemented in PE. Furthermore, equal occasions to perform their skills would be important for every student regardless the motor-skill ability or personality. In other words, it would be important to facilitate children’s interaction which in a chance to perform their skills with ensuring two important elements of Jigsaw method, individual accountability and equal contribution. In addition, implementation of Jigsaw method in units which focus on corrective game could be smooth to use it because teamwork would be important in both of corrective game and Jigsaw method.
