Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
The SIOP Model is a research-based and validated model of sheltered instruction. Professional development in the SIOP Model helps teachers plan and deliver lessons that allow English learners to acquire academic knowledge as they develop English language proficiency.
This model consists of eight interrelated components which can be effectively implemented in any lesson plan to ensure greater understanding for all students. Using instructional strategies connected to each of these components, teachers are able to design and deliver lessons that address the academic and linguistic needs of English learners.
Eight SIOP Components:
1. Preparation
-Includes meaningful activities that integrate lesson concepts (e.g., surveys, letter writing, simulations)
2. Building Background
-Explicitly link past learning and new concepts .
3. Comprehensible Input
- Use speech appropriate for students' proficiency level (e.g., slower rate, enunciation, simple sentence structure for beginners). Explain academic tasks clearly. Use a variety of techniques to make content concepts clear (e.g., modeling, visuals, hands-on activities, demonstrations, gestures, body language).
4. Strategies
- Provide ample opportunities for students to use strategies (e.g., problem solving, predicting, organizing, summarizing, categorizing, evaluating, self-monitoring).
5. Interaction
- Provide frequent opportunities for interactions and discussion between teacher/student and among students.
6. Practice/Application
- Provide hands-on materials and/or manipulatives for students to practice using new content
7. Lesson Delivery
- Support content and language objectives clearly. Pace the lesson appropriately to the students' ability level.
8. Review/Assessment
- Give a comprehensive review of key vocabulary and key content concepts . Provide feedback to students regularly on their output. Conduct assessments of student comprehension and leaning throughout lesson on all lesson objectives (e.g., spot checking, group response).
The SIOP Model is a research-based and validated model of sheltered instruction. Professional development in the SIOP Model helps teachers plan and deliver lessons that allow English learners to acquire academic knowledge as they develop English language proficiency.
This model consists of eight interrelated components which can be effectively implemented in any lesson plan to ensure greater understanding for all students. Using instructional strategies connected to each of these components, teachers are able to design and deliver lessons that address the academic and linguistic needs of English learners.
Eight SIOP Components:
1. Preparation
-Includes meaningful activities that integrate lesson concepts (e.g., surveys, letter writing, simulations)
2. Building Background
-Explicitly link past learning and new concepts .
3. Comprehensible Input
- Use speech appropriate for students' proficiency level (e.g., slower rate, enunciation, simple sentence structure for beginners). Explain academic tasks clearly. Use a variety of techniques to make content concepts clear (e.g., modeling, visuals, hands-on activities, demonstrations, gestures, body language).
4. Strategies
- Provide ample opportunities for students to use strategies (e.g., problem solving, predicting, organizing, summarizing, categorizing, evaluating, self-monitoring).
5. Interaction
- Provide frequent opportunities for interactions and discussion between teacher/student and among students.
6. Practice/Application
- Provide hands-on materials and/or manipulatives for students to practice using new content
7. Lesson Delivery
- Support content and language objectives clearly. Pace the lesson appropriately to the students' ability level.
8. Review/Assessment
- Give a comprehensive review of key vocabulary and key content concepts . Provide feedback to students regularly on their output. Conduct assessments of student comprehension and leaning throughout lesson on all lesson objectives (e.g., spot checking, group response).
SIOP Component: EL Practice / Application Tools in SCIENCE:
Hands-on materials and/or manipulatives for students to practice using new content knowledge.
For EL Beginners
BrainPOPScience/ BrainPOP ESL
www.brainpopesl.com
BrainPOP ESL is dedicated to teaching English to students all over the world through animated movies. It uses engaging content to teach English to speakers of other languages. Lessons are built around animated movies and supporting features that reinforce vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, reading comprehension, and writing skills.
Youtube SpaceLab
www.youtube.com/user/spacelab
This website uses science and space to help inspire curiosity, imagination and creativity for students in the world around them. It encourages them to question what’s possible and by doing so, it is their hope to spark their interests in learning about science, math, and technology.
Khan Academy ESPANOL
www.youtube.com/user/KhanAcademyEspanol
Es nuestra misión acelerar el aprendizaje de estudiantes de todas las edades. Con esto en mente, queremos compartir nuestro contenido con todos aquellos que lo puedan encontrar útil. Los videos han sido categorizados en las listas de reproducción.
For EL Intermediate
Interactive Science
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/science/index.html
Supports student learning through interactive online science games and activities
Gizmo Interactive for Math and Science
http://www.explorelearning.com/
For EL Proficient
Khan Academy
www.khanacademy.org/
The Khan Academy has a library of over 3000 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 500 practice exercises. This website is on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace. This site Includes lesson plans presented in short videos that illustrate how a particular activity can be effective for ALL students, not just English learners. Currently, lessons can be translated in various languages in order to accommodate millions of learners from around the world. The site is also accepting applications for translators to further extend their reach to schools from other countries.
Scholastic.com
www.scholastic.com/teachers/student-activities
Engaging web and whiteboard activities across all grade levels and subjects. Scholastic partners with Latino community leaders, researchers and education experts to develop resources, books, and media that highlight the richness of the Latino culture and foster Latino children’s early literacy and reading abilities. Today, Scholastic is the largest publisher and distributor of Spanish-language books in the United States. In addition to their growing base in Latin countries and Southeast Asia, the company is also making inroads into the Arabic-speaking world, with product and training programs developed specifically for the markets of the Arabic region.
For EL Early Advanced/ Advanced
TED: Ideas worth spreading
www.ted.com/ ED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.
YoutubeEDU
www.youtube.com/education?b=400
an educational hub “volunteer project sparked by a group of employees who wanted to find a better way to collect and highlight all the great educational content being uploaded to YouTube by colleges and universities