2. Sheltered Instruction & Effective Help - P. Plan Lessons

Action Steps:

Step 1

Select what to teach: Select a content and language objective that you will address. Consider using an upcoming lesson and embedding SIOP components to help meet your lesson’s goals. Ideally, planning lessons should enhance the work you’re already doing!

Don’t have a lesson? Consider revising an existing lesson plan (see list below for some useful websites, but feel free to use others). If you take this route, you must give credit to the appropriate resource. The lesson plan would have to be revised into a word document that reflects the necessary requirements below. It would not be sufficient to merely download the lesson plan and annotate it with comments on how you would revise it.

 

Create a Lesson: Develop a 20-30 minute lesson that integrates at least TWO of the following SIOP components to address your content and language objectives. These components and features have been selected due to their focus on help resources:

  • Lesson Preparation: Supplementary materials used to a high degree, making the lesson clear and meaningful (e.g. computer programs, graphs, models, visuals)

  • Lesson Preparation: Adaptation of content (e.g. text, assignment) to all levels of student proficiency

  • Comprehensible Input: A variety of techniques used to make content concepts clear

  • Strategies: Scaffolding techniques consistently used assisting and supporting student understanding (e.g. think alouds)

  • Interaction: Ample opportunities for students to clarify key concepts in L1 as needed with aide, peer, or L1 text

  • Practice Application: Hands-on materials and/or manipulatives provided for students to practice using new content knowledge

Your lesson plan should:

  1. Identify the context (e.g., grade level, topic, course, content-area, ages, English language proficiencies of students)

  2. Write out content and language objectives

  3. Articulate how the content and language objectives will be measured. In other words, how will you know that students achieved the objectives? Are they supposed to use a certain number of the focal terms in writing? Will they write down at least two ideas on a shared poster? Do they need to sketch a prototype for a model?

  4. Integrate features from at least TWO SIOP components listed above. Review this document which provides an overview of the SIOP components and offers resources for each one.

  5. Include a step-by-step breakdown of the lesson:

    1. Time: Be specific about how long each task will take! For example, how long are students talking? How long do they have to write down their ideas? How long is the warm up?

    2. Student and Teacher Actions: What are the teachers and students doing at every step of the way? For instance, if students are writing down an idea, what is the teacher doing? If the teacher is introducing a new language concept, what are the students doing?

    3. Help: What help is available to students at every step of the way? For instance, are students working with peers, using sentence stems, relying on a poster, referring to a graphic?

    4. Directions: Scripted directions for the discussion routine that include roles, rules, turns, and time. (See this resource for a breakdown.)

  6. Include all handouts and materials

Step 2

Be sure to link your work and documents in the capstone project:

Capstone table example

 

Step 3

Reflection: Answer the following questions on a Capstone slide

  1. Thinking about your lesson. You can choose one or all questions, or parts from each question. (150-250 words total)

    1. How do the SIOP components/features support students in achieving the learning objectives?

    2. How does your lesson give opportunity for all student voices to be heard? Where does it fall short?

    3. How challenging was it to integrate the SIOP components/features in your context or for this topic? How did you decide which components or features to include?

  2. Takeaways: You can choose one or all questions, or parts from each question. (200-250 words)

    1. What was your most significant take away from the assignment? What did you find interesting and useful?

    2. What was most challenging in the task? How did you overcome that challenge?

    3. How will you apply your learning to practice?

    4. To learn more, what might your next steps be?

    5. How would you improve on your current product in the future?

Create a SIOP Lesson Plan

Why this task? The SIOP Model instructional framework has been proven to bring about statistically significant academic content and language growth.

Points: 15

Must Haves
1. Response completes the task.
2. Accurately reflects WIDA Standards and the principles of SIOP.
3. Demonstrates precision and accuracy appropriate to the demands of a graduate course (including correct citations, grammar, and mechanics).
4. Demonstrates thoughtfulness and insights appropriate to the demands of a graduate course.
5. Responds specifically and explicitly to an identified language demand taught in an inclusive setting.
Amazing
* Explain how learning from completing the task can be useful to you.
* Promotes self and cultural awareness.
* Describes possible next steps.
* Relates to developing language skills in specific ways.
* Share materials or examples that may be useful to others.