The Role of “Jigsaw” Method in Enhancing Indonesian Prospective Teachers’ Pedagogical Knowledge and Communication Skill

The broad context of this paper is based on the authors' fieldwork experience in implementing a jigsaw-type cooperative learning method. The paper aims to explore the role of Jigsaw Model for prospective teachers' understanding of pedagogical content knowledge and how it can be integrated with their instructional communication skill. This study was a qualitative case study. Sixty second-year university students were involved as the study participants. Data were gathered through observations, field notes, and interviews with key respondents. The data were thematically analyzed, and they were interpreted based on the prepared achievements indicator. The results of the study reveal that the implementation of a jigsaw-type cooperative learning method is successful in improving both pedagogical content knowledge and verbal communication skill of the prospective teachers.