POLA PEMBELAJARAN KOOPERATIF MODEL JIGSAW BAGI SISWA SEKOLAH
Cooperative learning covers either academic assignments or social goals. The important aspects of cooperative learning herewith are to assist students in developing the cooperative behaviors by implementing a good relationship among them mutually to any subject matters mastery they are learning for. The complex learning assignments, such as solving the problems, adopting critical thinking, analyzing the matters, and learning the concepts are applicably needed to the cooperative learning concept. Cooperative learning reflects views in which students may learn it from their own active participation and empirical experience through the small groups. These activities will help students to learn the social skills accordingly, besides they may mutually develop democratic behaviors, logical thinking skills, and creative quality improvements as well. The jigsaw model cooperative learning adopts some students’ potencies to interact with each other. This learning model is intended to stimulate the cooperative capability in critical and analytical thinking and to assist students who have insufficient understanding to any subject matters. The heterogenic participants (race, religion, social and economic strata, learners’ capability, etc.) of the jigsaw learning model are chosen randomly. The randomly group members determination will benefit to students, because they are able to fit their self-adaptability as well as this condition is fair-regarded. The teacher’s role in the jigsaw model is as a facilitator, skills trainer, controller to the learning process, motivator to students’ mutual responsibility and evaluator to the multiple perspectives on the subject matters given.