Pages 22 through 51.We are going into our 5th month of SIOP implementation here in Chefornak. By now you have learned a great deal about SIOP Lesson Prep. How is it going? You can share with your colleagues some of your successes and some things that you still want to improve.
Just to review the 6 features of Lesson Prep:
1) Clearly define content objectives for students
2) Clearly define language objectives for students
3) Content concepts appropriate for age and educational background level of students.
4) Supplementary materials used to a high degree, making the lesson clear and meaningful (e.g., computer programs, graphs, models, visuals)
5) Adaptation of content to all levels of student proficiency
6) Provide meaningful and authentic activities that integrate lesson concepts with language practice opportunities
Pre-reading Questions
1) Why do lesson plans for Sheltered Instruction take extra considerations?
2) What has been your experience with SIOP lesson planning over the last couple of months? What has worked well for you? What feature of Lesson Prep has helped you the most?
3) Do you notice any improvements with your students and their learning in your classes, since you have added some of the SIOP features to your planning?
4) What feature would you like to work on more?
5) What do you not understand about SIOP Lesson Prep?
After reading Ch. 2: Lesson Prep (you may choose from these questions or come up with your own)
1) What do we need to do, if a major part of the information we need to teach are students is in textbooks that are above their level of English proficiency? (p. 24)
2) What is one new thing you learned about content and language objectives that you learned from reviewing the information on pages 24 to 32?
3) What supplementary material could you add to your lessons that could help students master the language and content objectives? (Feature 4, pgs 33 to 34)
4) Share one example with your colleagues about how you can use a scaffolded outline (p. 35) for the grade level and subjects that you teach?
5) How could you use Native language text in your class to help increase comprehension (p. 38)
6) Read the SIOP lesson teaching scenarios about the Gold Rush, on pages 39-45. Score the lessons according to the protocol for lesson prep on pages 42-45. You can have 1-2 people in each group read about one teacher and score their lesson. Then compare your scores with the scores and analysis on pages 46 to 50.
You can also use the questions on pages 50 to 51. Question 2 is a great one to discuss with your colleagues.
Answer book Questions: for Katie & Melissa
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5. You can use 3 forms: The English vocab word, the Yup'ik vocab word, and a picture to go with it. Use an elder to come in and explain a concept in Yupi'ik for a topic that you are teaching in English.
Thanks for posting. Remember the blog is a place to post your reflections, not the answers to the questions. Reflect on the most valuable things you have learned and how this learning can have a positive impact on your teaching practice. I think this will help your learning most of all! Have a great weekend!
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