SIOP Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol

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SIOP Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
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Sheltered Instruction - SIOP

• Demographic Changes
• Over 5.5 million elementary and secondary
  students were identified as English Learners
  (OESA, 2005)
• English Learners now comprise 10.5 of the
  nations student population
• 60 percent of the English Learners are native born

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Sheltered Instruction -
SIOP

• The US Census Bureau determined
• 1990 1 in 20
• 2005 1 in 9
• Anticipate in 2025 1 in 4 (25)
• www.ncela.gov

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Sheltered
Instruction - SIOP

• Faribault Demographics
• 2001
• 10 LEP
• 32 Free and Reduced Price Lunch
• 88 White
• 2006
• 17 LEP
• 37 Free and Reduced Price Lunch
• 81 White

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Sheltered Instruction - SIOP
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Why SIOP?

• School Board Strategic Direction
• Improve curriculum, programs and services to
  provide increased academic rigor for all students
• AYP Plan Provide SIOP Training
• Changing demographics of Faribault

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Sheltered Instruction - SIOP

• AYP GOAL 1
• The Faribault Public School District is committed
  to increasing the reading skills in all strands
  so that 40 of the districts black students will
  demonstrate proficiency in reading as measured by
  the 2008 MCAII.

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Sheltered Instruction - SIOP

• AYP Goal 2
• The Faribault Public School District will
  increase skills in Data Analysis, Statistics,
  Probability and Spatial Sense, Geometry, and
  Measurement of LEP students in K-12 so that 45
  of LEP students will demonstrate proficiency in
  mathematics as measured by the 2008 MCAII.

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What is SIOP?

• Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol
• Is an approach for teaching grade level content
  to English Learners in strategic ways that make
  the subject matter concepts comprehensible while
  promoting the students English language
  development

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What is SIOP?

• Supporting Research Seven year research project
  (1996-2003) for the Center for Research on
  Education, Diversity of Education
• All of the research has demonstrated an increase
  in EL student achievement when compared with
  similar groups of EL students who were not
  exposed to SIOP

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Components of the SIOP Model

• 8 areas
• Lesson Preparation
• Building Background
• Comprehensible Input
• Strategies
• Interaction
• Practice and Application
• Lesson Delivery
• Review and Assessment

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SIOP

• Overview Video

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Stages of Implementation

• 2 year project of on-going staff development
• 3 day training August 5 teachers from each
  school and Principal
• Early release
• Meet with the cohort of staff and review the
• Reintroduce a new strategies each quarter
• Completing all 8 strategies over a two year
  process

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SIOP Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol