SDAIE and Research Based Strategies

SDAIE

SDAIE stands for Specially-Designed Academic-Instruction in English.

To understand the purpose of SDAIE (often referred to as "sheltered instruction"), the umbrella is a useful metaphor. After LEP students enter United States schools, they encounter many unfamiliar elements. As an umbrella shelters pedestrians in a rain-storm, so SDAIE/sheltered classes offer LEP students some protection from the storm of concepts, contexts, and language, thus giving them the opportunity to progress academically as they acquire English language proficiency.

SDAIE/sheltered methodology, borrowed from ELD/ESL strategies, emphasizes the concept of making concepts understood by the learner. This is accomplished through the use of:

realia (real objects and materials)
manipulatives (drawings, posters, brainstorming-clusters, graphs, tables, maps, props, multimedia presentations, storyboards, storymaps)
visuals (study-prints, text Ýbook-illustrations, overhead-projected prints, reproductions of paintings, and documents)
graphic organizers (matrices, Venn diagrams, and webs)
planned opportunities for interaction between all individuals in the classroom (creating a skit and acting it out, co-operative learning, collaborative learning, and student-generated stories based on personal experiences)

For more information, visit the SDAIE Resources and Websites listed below:

SDAIE Resources and Websites

SDAIE Strategies: A Glossary of Instructional Strategies

taken from the Sweetwater Unified High School District

For a comprehensive glossary of SDAIE methods, click the following link:

http://www.suhsd.k12.ca.us/suh/---suhionline/sdaie/glossary.html

http://www.suhsd.k12.ca.us/

SDAIE Handbook: Techniques, Strategies, and Suggestions

for Teachers of LEP and Former LEP Students

http://www.suhsd.k12.ca.us/suh/---suhionline/sdaie/sdaiehandbook.html

SDAIE Teaching Strategies

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/o/oreyd/sylabi/sdaie.htm

Glossary for Strategies and Terms in the ELD Matrix

http://connect.ocde.us/Strategies.htm

How to Evaluate Teaching Strategies

http://www.ehow.com/how_2058182_evaluate-teaching-strategies.html

For resources on Differentiating instruction, visit:

http://www.differentiatedresources.com/

Differentiating Instruction ... One Size Doesn't Fit All

http://www.learnerslink.com/curriculum.htm

Links to Learn More About Differentiated Instruction

http://www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_diffinstructudl.html

Differentiated Instruction and Implications for UDL Implementation

http://www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_diffinstructudl.html

Educational Leadership Research Link

http://www.ascd.org/

Guild, P. B., and Garger, S. (1998). What Is Differentiated Instruction? Marching to Different Drummers, 2nd Ed. (ASCD, p.2)

http://www.ascd.org/

The Access Center

http://www.k8accesscenter.org/

Tomlinson, C. A., & Allan, S. D., (2000). Leadership for differentiating schools and classrooms. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

http://www.ascd.org/

Web Article: Mapping a route toward differentiated instruction.

http://www.ascd.org/

Web Site: for Teachers, Administrators, and Higher Education

www.teach-nology.com/litined/dif_instruction/

Tutorial on Planning Differentiated Instruction

http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/teaching/differentiate/planning/

Differentiated instruction (sometimes referred to as differentiated learning) involves providing students with different avenues to acquiring content; to processing, constructing, or making sense of ideas; and to developing teaching materials so that all students within a classroom can learn effectively, regardless of differences in ability.[1]

Differentiated instruction, according to Carol Ann Tomlinson (as cited by Ellis, Gable, Greg, & Rock, 2008, p. 32), is the process of “ensuring that what a student learns, how he/she learns it, and how the student demonstrates what he/she has learned is a match for that student’s readiness level, interests, and preferred mode of learning”. Differentiation stems from beliefs about differences among learners, how they learn, learning preferences and individual interests (Anderson, 2007). "Research indicates that many of the emotional or social difficulties gifted students experience disappear when their educational climates are adapted to their level and pace of learning."[2] Differentiation in education can also include how a student shows that they have mastery of a concept. This could be through a research paper, role play, podcast, diagram, poster, etc. The key is finding how your students learn and displays their learning that meets their specific needs. (wikipedia)

Research-Based Strategies

Differentiating Instruction: