The use of talking chips and showdown

1. CL Sharing
Mdm Norla & Miss Zaleha
14 Sep 2016

2. WHAT IS COOPERATIVE LEARNING?
What does cooperative learning look like?
Students are working in teams that display:
P- Positive Interdependence (on the same side, same goals)
I- Individual Accountability (student’s can’t hide)
E-Equal participation (equal status)
S-Simultaneous Interaction (engagement)

3. TALKING CHIPS & SHOWDOWN

4. Cooperative Structures
Talking Chips
After students have learned sufficient language patterns and
vocabulary to hold a purposeful conversation about the
topic at hand, Talking Chips support democratic and
accountable participation in small group interactions.
Students place their chip in the center each time they talk;
they cannot speak again until all chips are in the center and
collected.

5.  Distribute a set number of Talking Chips to each student
in the group.
 Each group member must “spend” his or her Talking
Chips during the collaborative session.
This helps teachers monitor student interaction and ensure
all group members have equal opportunity to share their
thinking while enhancing communication skills.
Implementation

7. LET’S GIVE IT A TRY..
1) Share 1 interesting thing which you have
done during the 1 week September break.

8. Cooperative Structures
Talking Chips - Variant
Gambit Chips: Like Talking Chips but chips contain gambits
(things to say or do): For examples, Affirmation Chips
contain praisers; Paraphrase Chips contain gambits for
paraphrasing.
Response Mode Chips: Like Talking Chips but chips contain
response modes: For examples, Summarizing, Giving an
Idea, Praising an Idea.

10. LET’S GIVE IT A TRY..
1) After listening to your group sharing,
use the gambits or response chips to
seek clarification or paraphrase what
your friends have said.

11. SHOWDOWN

12.  It increases active engagement
 No one student can do all the work
 Contribution by all is required
In Showdown, each student does each problem on their own
before receiving help.
When “Showdown!” is called, each student shows teammates
their work, and they begin the process of checking, coaching,
and celebrating.
BENEFITS

14. USING CARDS
OR TEACHER-LED QUESTIONS

16. Students can use whiteboards instead of sticky notes
to write down their individual answers.
The teacher can call out one question at a time for
all students to answer.
This is a great way to use Showdown as formative
assessment during a lesson.
This activity can be differentiated by giving groups of
students different sets of cards at different levels of
difficulty works great for stations.

17. LET’S GIVE IT A TRY
1) Jot down the names of 5 ASEAN
countries.
SHOWDOWN CARD 1
1) ___________
2) ___________
3) ___________
4) ___________
5) ___________

18. LET’S GIVE IT A TRY
2) Solve the following equation
5+3x9-2 = ??
SHOWDOWN CARD 2
_______________________