Implementing a ResearchBased Sheltered Instruction Program

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Implementing a Research-Based Sheltered
Instruction Program

• Dr. Tomasita Ortiz, Director, Multilingual
  Student Education Services

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Educational Challenges

• Language Proficiency
• Phonology
• Morphology
• Semantics
• Pragmatics
• Academic Proficiency
• Learning
• Comprehending
• Applying academic English used by teachers and
  textbooks to deliver important information

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Educational Challenges

• Different cognitive levels in the native language
• Different levels of background knowledge
• Different levels of language acquisition
  proficiency
• Different levels of academic language proficiency

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High Quality Instruction Ensures Linguistic and
Academic Success

• Teachers need to know how to deliver Sheltered
  Instruction to teach content to LEP in strategic
  ways that make the concepts comprehensible while
  promoting the students academic English
  development.(Short Echevarria 2005)

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Explicit Model for Effectively Implementing
Sheltered Instruction

• Using ESOL strategies is not sufficient to
• ensure the academic success of LEP.
• Without systematic language development,
• many students never gain the academic literacy
• skills needed to succeed in mainstream classes,
  to
• meet content standards, and to pass standardized
• assessment.

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Explicit Model for Effectively Implementing
Sheltered Instruction

• The SIOP Model
• The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
  Model is a lesson planning and delivery approach
  composed of 30 instructional strategies grouped
  into eight components
• Preparation, Building Background, Comprehensible
  Instruction, Strategies, Interaction,
  Practice/Application, Lesson Delivery, and
  Review/Assessment.

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SIOP Strategies that Promote Academic Literacy
for LEP

• Identify the language demands of the content
  course
• Examine the curriculum from a language
  perspective
• Determine the aspects of the English language the
  LEP need to know to be successful in the content
  course

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SIOP Strategies that Promote Academic Literacy
for LEP

• Plan Language Objectives for all lessons and make
  them explicit to students
• Key vocabulary, reading and writing skills
• Preview and prewriting activities

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SIOP Strategies that Promote Academic Literacy
for LEP

• Emphasize academic vocabulary development
• Crucial words for conceptual understanding
• Word walls, semantic webs, and structural analysis

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SIOP Strategies that Promote Academic Literacy
for LEP

• Plan Language Objectives for all lessons and make
  them explicit to students
• Building from an understanding of the language
  demands of the curriculum, teachers can develop
  language objectives related to key vocabulary,
  reading or writing skills.

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SIOP Strategies that Promote Academic Literacy
for LEP

• Emphasize academic vocabulary development
• Move beyond the highlighted words in the textbook
• Focus on words crucial to conceptual
  understanding
• Go beyond glossary definition lists

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SIOP Strategies that Promote Academic Literacy
for LEP

• Activate and strengthen background knowledge
• Many LEP struggle with curriculum content
  because they lack background knowledge of the
  topic or have gaps in the information they have
  learned.

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SIOP Strategies that Promote Academic Literacy
for LEP

• Promote oral interaction and extended academic
  talk
• Oral language interaction activities in the
  classroom help LEP acquire literacy skills and
  access new information.

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SIOP Strategies that Promote Academic Literacy
for LEP

• Review vocabulary and content concepts
• Focusing on instruction delivered through an
  unfamiliar language all day long is mentally
  exhausting, and students may find it difficult to
  identify the most important information among all
  the ideas conveyed.

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SIOP Strategies that Promote Academic Literacy
for LEP

• Give students feedback on language use in class
• Talk explicitly with students about their choice
  of words in English, ways to compare information,
  and strategies for explaining solutions.

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SIOP Strategies that Promote Academic Literacy
for LEP

• Above all things, always teach subject area
  content in the context of the second language
  acquisition research you have learned in training
  opportunities provided in OCPS and the ESOL
  training mandated by Florida law to ensure the
  academic success of LEP.

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SIOP Strategies that Promote Academic Literacy
for LEP

• Source
• Educational Leadership Journal, ASCD, December
  2004-January 2005
• Article Teacher Skills to Support English
  Language Learners (Deborah Short and Echevarria)