Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model FROM THE PUBLISHER
Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model presents an empirically validated model of sheltered instruction. This text contains the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model, which provides school administrators, staff developers, teachers, teacher candidates, university faculty, and field experience supervisors with an instrument for observing and quantifying a teacher's implementation of quality sheltered instruction.
SYNOPSIS
Three American educators combine their expertise in teaching ESL, literacy, educational research, professional development, and curriculum development in the second edition of this text on the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP). The text offers ESL teachers a model for lesson planning and implementation that provides students with access to grade-level content standards. New features include graphic organizers at the beginning of each chapter, with listings of content and language objectives; discussion of the eight sections and 30 indicators of the SIOP; teaching scenarios in each chapter; discussion questions; and inclusion of both the full SIOP and an abbreviated version. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR