MISD Bilingual/ESL Department

SIOP

Lesson Delivery

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• Teachers choose appropriate content objectives. • They plan meaningful activities to meet the objectives• They select language objectives for each lesson that are drawn

from language arts standards, ESL standards, or ELPS.• Post the selected standards for the content and language.

SIOP: Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol

Step 1 - Preparation:

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SIOP: Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol

Step 2 – Building Background:

• Teachers connect the students’ background and past experiences with the new learning.

• They help students comprehend by teaching the vocabulary that is key to understanding of the material.

• They explicitly teach the content vocabulary. • Teach the students the academic vocabulary.

According to Saville-Troike, “Vocabulary development is critical for English learners because we know that there is a strong relationship between vocabulary knowledge in English and academic achievement

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SIOP: Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol

Step 3 – Comprehensible Input:

• Teacher uses vocabulary that the students understand, states directions orally and in writing, and demonstrates expectations.

• Guided practice hands-on techniques• The students are provided with support such as prediction guides, visual

aides, and other supplemental materials. • The information is shared at an appropriate pace and enunciated clearly.

According to Echevarria, Vogt, and Short (p. 78), “Effective sheltered teachers provide explanations of academic tasks in ways that make clear what students are expected to accomplish and that promote student success.”

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SIOP: Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol

Step 4 – Strategies:

• Use explicit instructional strategies, such as questioning techniques, to support higher-level thinking that involves predicting, summarizing, problem solving, organizing, evaluating, and self-monitoring.

• Use scaffolding techniques that provide the right amount of support and help move the students to the next level.

• Time to practice the strategies with support from their peers and the teacher, as well as opportunities to implement the strategies independently.

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SIOP: Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol

Step 5 – Interactions:

• Continual opportunities to interact with peers through flexible grouping

• Small groups, triads, or pairs where every student has an opportunity to speak and work on projects together

• Students are encouraged to interact with each other• Extended academic conversations with their peers• Teacher talk is reduced • Students are encouraged to talk more with such questions as, Tell

me more about that, or Can you tell us why you think that?• Adequate wait time

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SIOP: Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol

Step 6 – Practice and Application:

• Reinforces the importance of using hands-on material and manipulatives• Small-group activities involving hands-on experiences that provide

students with relevant information about the content and an opportunity to practice

• Discuss and apply what they are learning through integration of reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

• By integrating all of the language arts areas, the ELs grow in their English language ability as well as learn the content.

Echevarria, Vogt, & Short (p. 118) state that, “Manipulating learning materials are important for ELLs because it helps them connect abstract concepts with concrete experiences.”

How have you been doing?

– Language Objectives on the board?– Content Objectives on the board?– Vocabulary activities?– Pictures provided as visuals for vocabulary

words?– Opportunities for interaction?– Practicing and applying learning in engaging

and innovative ways?

Today’s Objectives

Content Objectives• I can monitor lessons to

determine if the delivery is supporting the objectives

• I can list strategies for improving student time-on-task throughout a lesson

• I can explain how to focus on a lesson’s objectives can aid in pacing

• I can generate activities to keep English learners engaged

Language Objectives• I can evaluate a situation

where a great lesson plan is not enacted successfully and explain what might have gone wrong and what could be improved

• I can compare pacing considerations in classes that have only native English speakers with classes that have English learners

• I can discuss characteristics of effective SIOP lesson delivery

Lesson Delivery

How should we worry about how we deliver lessons to our students?

Maybe this would be a better way?

Lesson Delivery

• Mastery of content and language objectives by all students, including English learners, is the intended goal of a well-designed SIOP lesson. If both teachers and students stay focused on the objectives throughout a lesson, the objectives are more likely to be met.

• In order for students, including English learners, to meet content and language objectives, they must be highly engaged throughout the lesson. “Bird-walks” (a term coined by Madeline Hunter) such as the conversation and sharing of personal experiences that took place in the above lesson may be interesting, but they’re usually unproductive, unfocused, and don’t lead to mastery of content and language objectives.

• A skillful SIOP teacher is able to monitor and adjust pacing during a lesson. Students’ disengagement may be due to material that is presented too quickly (or too slowly) and/or to a lack of focus for the lesson.

Features

Content objectives clearly supported by lesson deliver

Language objectives clearly supported by lesson delivery

Students engaged approximately 90% to 100% of the period

Pacing of the lesson appropriate to students’ ability levels

Lesson Delivery

Engage Them!– With a partner brainstorm with partners what

sights and sounds are present in classrooms where students are highly engaged.

– Post it on chart paper

– Gallery Walk

A Model of Engaged Learning

Dialogue Experience

self others

doing observing

Learning

Learning thru Dialogue & Experience

Knowledge of

Content

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Group/Community of Learners

Basic knowledge distributed by readings & lectures; generally understood by qualified students

Goal

Rich knowledge of teachers, texts, & experts

Pro

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Moves beyond content recall to internalizing principles of practice, problem solving, and tricks of the trade

Uses the distributed knowledge of a group to move beyond any individual’s total knowledge or skill base

Process

Goal

Goal

Student Engagement

Engaging?

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Engagement in the Classroom

• Create an emotionally safe classroom

• Create an intellectually safe classroom

• Cultivate your engagement meter (pay attention to their attention level)

• Scaffold their learning • Help them make connections to the

content • Create a culture of explanation

instead of a culture of the right answer

• Teach them how to activate their background knowledge

• Use questioning strategies that make all students think and answer

• Provide feedback and allow for peer feedback

• Summarize, share and reflect at the end of the lesson

• Use a practice journal or blog writing to communicate with students

Activities for Engagement

Total Physical Response (TPR) is a method developed to aid learning

second languages. Students respond to commands that require physical

movement. TPR is primarily used by ESL teachers, although the method is used in teaching other languages as well. The method became popular in

the 1970s.

TPRPLANT

PLANT (initialized version)

MEASURE

TPR

Occupy

Probability

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Engaging Activities

Incorporate the real world into your teaching

Students need to see how the content applies to their own lives for better comprehension.

How do you do this in your classroom?

How could you do this in your classroom?

Engagement

Be dynamic -Teaching truly is an art. Your enthusiasm needs to be “infectious,” and yes, the pun was intended. Be enthusiastic and energized, maximize learning time, and most important, have fun.

Content Engagement

Tell a StoryPeople naturally find characters and narratives interesting. Stories are easy to remember because they’re not a random assortment of information. They have a beginning, middle, and an end. In the same way, your lesson should have a narrative arc. It should include an “a-ha” moment, a point where all the pieces come together. This works for ALL CONTENT AREAS!

Engagement• In a lesson on probability, introduced

a basketball player named Michael Yourdon and use him to cover a variety of concepts.

• A concept like probability tends to produce eye-glazing on its own. Relating it to a basketball player students have already gotten know (Michael Yourdon! The legend!) puts the math into a context that’s easy to grasp.

• Story characters don’t always have to be fictional, either. Ancient thinkers such as Pythagoras, Archimedes, and Euclid asked very basic questions about the world around them, questions that your students might even ask themselves.

Tying a lesson to the historical figures that grappled with it — or simply sharing your knowledge about a mathematical concept’s origins — can help students make connections to study material that would otherwise seem remote or abstract.

Engagement

Open with a Hook• A real-world example, an

interesting problem, or a novel way of looking at a familiar situation

• This “hook” should then reappear in different contexts throughout the lesson.

• By examining a single problem from different angles, you maintain a sense of familiarity (essential to storytelling) and help students to see how ideas relate to each other.

• Presenting new concepts in familiar situations allows them to build on what they already know.

Engagement

Choose Images over Words

• No need to insert blocks of text.• You’ll be present to provide the details

and explanations.• Diagrams, images, arrows, color coding

– the more ways you can connect ideas to visual reminders, the better.

• It’s a lot easier to remember a picture than a paragraph.

• Keep in mind that in order to be effective, the image should connected to the storyline; it should drive the story forward or illustrate an important point.

EngagementAddress the “Why”

• Math is anything but arbitrary and haphazard, though it can frequently feel that way to a student.

• It was designed to be user-friendly. As often as possible, you should address the question, “Why was this math subject necessary here in the situation?” 

• The more students can see that math was developed for their benefit — to simplify their world — the more they will trust their ability to use it.

• For example, in addition to explaining what percentages are, don’t forget to share why they are helpful and why we came up with them to begin with. For one thing, they make comparing fractions a lot more intuitive.Does this idea apply to

other content areas?

EngagementVocabulary

• Students cannot be engaged if they don’t know what you are talking about

• Find activities, pictures, videos, cartoons, etc. that provide content specific connections to the vocabulary words

Lesson Delivery

Discussion Questions

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Video Segment

Lesson Delivery

• Think-Write-Pair-Share– Think about the video and the questions on

Reproducible 9.3– Write your thoughts– Pair with a new partner– Share your thoughts

Lesson Delivery

• Wrap it up– What are the three most important ideas you

have learned about this component? How will they impact your own planning and teaching?

Homework Assignment

• Work as many SIOP components as possible into your lesson plans and document your successes and challenges.

• First fifteen minutes of our next meeting will be devoted to sharing with the class.

• Email me any time if you need additional support – Sonia Rhykerd - srhykerd@mckinneyisd.net– Tina Kelman – tkelman@mckinneyisd.net