SIOP+Strategies

SIOP Instructional Strategies
What goals have you set for your instructional practice? How well are your students doing? How can instructional practice be refined and/or enhanced to improve learning? Any of the elements below might serve as a focus for your work. Let's plan together on a goal of your choice ...


 * Lesson Preparation **
 * 1) Write content objectives clearly for students.
 * 2) Write language objectives clearly for students.
 * 3) Choose content concepts appropriate for age and educational background level of students.
 * 4) Identify supplementary materials to use (graphs, models, visuals).
 * 5) Adapt content (e.g. text, assignments) to all levels of student proficiency.
 * 6) Plan meaningful activities that integrate lesson concepts (e.g. surveys, letter writing, simulations, constructing models) with language practice opportunities for reading, writing, listening, and/or speaking.


 * Building Background & Motivation **
 * 1) Explicitly link concepts to students' backgrounds and experiences.
 * 2) Explicitly link past learning and new concepts.
 * 3) Emphasize key vocabulary (e.g. introduce, write, repeat & highlight) for students.


 * Comprehensible Input **
 * 1) Use speech appropriate for students' proficiency level (e.g. slower rate, enunciation, and simple sentence structure for beginners).
 * 2) Explain academic tasks clearly.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Use a variety of techniques to make content concepts clear (e.g. modeling, visuals, hands-on activities, demonstrations, gestures, body language).


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Strategies **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide ample opportunities for students to use strategies (e.g. problem solving, predicting, organizing, summarizing, categorizing, evaluating, self-monitoring).
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Use scaffolding techniques consistently (providing the right amount of support to move students from one level of understanding to a higher level) throughout the lesson.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Use a variety of question types including those that promote higher order thinking skills throughout the lesson (literal, analytical, & interpretive questions).


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Interaction **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide frequent opportunities for interactions and discussion between teacher/student and among students, and encourage elaborated responses.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Use group configurations that support language and content objectives of the lesson.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide sufficient wait time for student responses consistently.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Give ample opportunities for students to clarify key concepts as needed with aide, peer, or enhanced text.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Practice/Application **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide hands-on materials and/or manipulatives for students to practice using new content knowledge.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide activities for students to apply content and language knowledge in the classroom.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide activities that integrate all language skills (i.e. reading, writing, listening and speaking).


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lesson Delivery **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Support content objectives clearly.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Support language objectives clearly.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Engage students approximately 90% to 100% of the period (most students taking part and on task throughout the lesson).
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Pace the lesson appropriately to the students' ability level.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Review/Assessment **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Give a comprehensive review of key vocabulary.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Give a comprehensive review of key content concepts.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide feedback to students regularly on their output (e.g. language, content, work).
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Conduct assessments of student comprehension and learning throughout lesson on all lesson objectives (e.g. spot checking, group response).