SIOP and Podcasting

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SIOP and Podcasting

• Using Podcasts to
• Support ELL Learners
• Presented by Cindy Loehr and Karen Peterson
• Cherry Creek Schools
• Office of Technology

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What is SIOP?
Sheltered instruction is an approach for
teaching content to English language learners in
strategic ways that make the subject matter
concepts comprehensible while promoting the
students English language development. The
SIOP Institute
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• How can SIOP integrate
• with 21st century learning?

• As a visual aid for modeling/ demonstrations
• As a vocabulary preview
• As an adapted text
• As a non-threatening, inviting tool
• As a tool for differentiation and flexible
  support
• As a time extension for students to learn English
  language and curricular concepts

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8 Components of SIOP?

• Preparation
• Building Background
• Comprehensible Input
• Strategies

• Interactions
• Practice/Application
• Lesson Delivery
• Review/Assessment

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Preparation

• Content objectives clearly defined, displayed
  and reviewed with students
• Language objectives clearly defined, displayed
  and reviewed with students
• Content concepts appropriate for age and
  educational background level of students
• Supplementary materials used to a high degree,
  making the lesson clear and meaningful, e.g.,
  visuals, graphs, computer programs

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Building Background

• Concepts explicitly linked to students back
  ground experiences
• Links explicitly made between past learning
  and new concepts
• Key vocabulary emphasized (e.g. Introduced,
  written, repeated, and highlighted for students
  to see)

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Comprehensible Input

• Speech appropriate for students proficiency
  levels (e.g., slower rate, enunciation, and
  simple sentence structure for beginners.
• Clear explanation of academic tasks
• A variety of techniques used to make content
  concepts clear (e.g., modeling, visuals, hands-on
  activities, demonstrations, body language)

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Strategies

• Ample opportunities provided for students to
  use their learning strategies.
• Scaffolding techniques used consistently,
  assisting and supporting student understanding
  (e.g., think-alouds)
• Questions or tasks that promote higher order
  thinking skills (e.g., literal, analytical, and
  interpretive questions)

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Interactions

• Frequent opportunities for interaction and
  discussion between teacher/student and among
  students, which encourage elaborated responses
  about lesson concepts.
• Grouping configuration support language and
  content objectives of the lesson.
• Student responses consistently receive
  sufficient wait time
• Students receive ample opportunities to clarify
  concepts in L1 (First Language) as needed with
  aide, peer, or L1 text

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Practice/Application

• Hands-on materials and/or manipulatives
  provided for students to practice using new
  content knowledge.
• The students take part in activities - to apply
  content knowledge and language knowledge in the
  classroom.
• The students take part in activities to
  integrate all language skills (reading, writing,
  listening, and speaking).

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Lesson Delivery

• Content objectives are clearly supported by
  lesson delivery
• Language objectives are clearly supported by
  lesson delivery.
• Students engaged approximately 90 to 100 of
  the period.
• Pacing of the lesson is appropriate to
  students ability levels.

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Review/Assessment

• Comprehensive review of key vocabulary.
• Comprehensive review of key concepts.
• Regular feedback provided to students on their
  output (e.g., language, content, work).
• Assessment of student comprehension and learning
  of all objectives (e.g., spot checking, group
  response, throughout the lesson).

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Content Area Vocabulary

• Mathematics and language are intricately
  connected, language facilitates mathematical
  thinking. It also incorporates "everyday
  vocabulary that takes on a different meaning in
  mathematics," like equal, rational, irrational,
  column, and table (Dale Cuevas, 1992).

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Building Background Comprehensible Input
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Practice/ApplicationIdeas
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Extending Reading Beyond the School Day
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Credits
Resource List Homonym Jokes www.firstschoolyears.
com Linking Second Language Strategies with
Content http//www.nwrel.org

• Background Image
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