• Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol

• A means for making grade level academic content more accessible to EAL students.

The following comes from  CAL (the Center for Applied Linguistics at http://www.cal.org/siop/about/

The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Model is a research-based and validated instructional model that has proven effective in addressing the academic needs of English learners throughout the United States.

There are Eight Components: 

• Lesson Preparation

• Building Background

• Comprehensible Input

• Strategies

• Interaction

• Practice/Application

• Lesson Delivery

• Review & Assessment

When teachers use the instructional strategies that are connected to each of the above components, they can design and deliver lessons that focus on both the content outcomes and language objectives of the EAL students in their mainstream classrooms.

The SIOP Model (3:58)

Component 1: Lesson Preparation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5xK5gP_Tbw (1:13)

Component 2: Building Background  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytXeEFCTMbg

(2:13)

Component 3: Comprehensible Input https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTnHonxao70 (2:43)

Component 4: Strategies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhYI3w5I0EA (2:11)

Component 5: Interaction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjOrFN6PEDg (1:10)

Component 6: Practice and Application https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUrQr4GBg0g (5:20)

Component 7: Lesson Delivery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGFTlmJmdmw (6:02)

Component 8: Review and Assessment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXkCZcPGxwE (3:57)