Friday, November 10, 2017

SIOP Day 2 Interaction

Interaction Ask yourself; Have I provided: • Frequent opportunities for interaction • Grouping configurations support objectives • Sufficient wait time for student responses consistently provided • Ample opportunities for students to clarify key concepts in L1

Day 2 SIOP Strategies

Strategies: Have you tried any of these? How could you add this into your lesson? 1. Verbal: paraphrases, think-alouds, slowing speech, reinforcing contextual definitions 2. Instructional: sentence frames, conversation prompts, Graphic organizers, modeling 3. Procedural; use of grouping configurations that provided different levels of support as they gain greater levels of language proficiency

Thursday, October 12, 2017

Challenges and Support

Share what challenges you have faced with regard to implementing SIOP and what support can we provide you?

What's different about your students?

Reflect and share your comments regarding what is different about your students.

Day 1 SIOP Overview

SIOP Overview What makes SIOP is the focus on language. · Reflect on how you have focused on language thus far. · What more would you like to do with language in your lessons?

SIOP Day 1 Lesson Preparation

Think about writing content and language objectives · Have I included language objectives for my lessons? · Could you share one that you have written? · Would you like a review of how to write language objectives?

Day 1 SIOP Second Language Acquisition

How are we doing in creating a socio-culturally supportive climate? · What have I done in my classroom? · Have I learned about the different cultural backgrounds of my students? · What can I do to improve?