The SIOP Model: Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol

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The SIOP Model Sheltered Instruction
Observation Protocol

• For English Language Learners

September December 2006 8 sessions in 4 months
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SIOP Training manual

• Making Content Comprehensible for English
  Learners The SIOP Model

Echevarria, Jana et.al. Making Content
Comprehensible for English Learners. Boston
Pearson/A and B, 2004.
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Objective for the training was

• To train ELL teachers to instruct others in the
  SIOP Model
• or in other words to
• TRAIN THE TRAINERS

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SIOP Model

• The SIOP Model presents an empirically validated
  model of sheltered instruction. which provides
  teachers with an instrument for observing and
  quantifying the implementation of sheltered
  instruction.

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SIOP MODEL

• Involves the addition of
• language objectives
• in regular education lesson plans.
• The use of strategies within the
• regular ed classroom that facilitate the
  learning of English as well as the content.

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Basis of the SIOP MODEL
Chapter 2, p. 20
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SIOP MODEL

• Emphasizes the difference between casual English
  and academic English as it relates to all of
  our students
• Language objectives address this need and
  therefore allow students to master the content
• The use of language objectives are in fact useful
  for all the students

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SIOP MODEL continued
Chapter 2, p.20
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Supplemental Materials

• Hands on manipulatives
• Realia
• Pictures
• Multimedia
• Demonstrations
• Related literature
• Adapted texts

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Adaptation of Content

• Graphic organizers
• Outlines
• Leveled study guides
• Highlighted text
• Taped text
• Adapted text
• Jigsaw
• Margin notes
• Supplemental native language texts

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Meaningful activities Is it meaningful????

• Native English students are learning the
  scientific names and habitats of butterflies

• ELL students are coloring and cutting out
  pictures of butterflies to make a mobile

No, ELL students should be engaging in meaningful
activities that allow them to learn reasonably
the same content.
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SIOP MODEL

• Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the
  classroom teacher to modify the lesson to meet
  the needs of the students in the class.
• More specific modifications are then left for the
  ELL teachers as they work with the students that
  have the most need.

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Applying the SIOP MODEL
Few
Specialized Services
Instructional Service Pyramid
Some
ALL
Fig. 10-2 p. 174
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In conclusion

• The SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Operation
  Protocol) Model is useful in reaching all
  students but particularly ELL students because it
  allows for the addition of language objectives
  that open their understanding of the content.