SIOP Summer Institute 2023
Our SIOP Summer Institute is now our English Learner Institute. It's the same course, we have just been aligning our course names with our mission: to support English Learners in the content-area classroom. You will find additional information on this page. You can also sign up with a credit card here or with a school purchase order here.
What is SIOP?
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SIOP {Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol} is a K-12 teaching framework that uses researched-based techniques that makes the content more comprehensible to students while promoting Academic English language proficiency and content mastery. The techniques and strategies SIOP highlights, while created to support English learners, scaffolds all students into success.
The SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) was originally designed as a teacher observation tool. Over the duration of the project, teachers realized that SIOP could be useful for lesson planning and reflection. The model was then used to train teachers to implement effective sheltered strategies in their classes. Now, it is used in all K-12 settings as a means of supporting the language and academic development of English learners. |
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Sheltered instruction is a series of methods and techniques that help ELs more easily understand and acquire language and content. The protocol consists of 8 categories of focus: Lesson preparation, Building background, Comprehensibility, Strategies, Interaction, Practice/Application, Lesson delivery, and Review/Evaluation. Together, the 8 categories provide the teacher with a clear guide of how to support English learners.
Within each category are a series of guiding objectives. For example, under lesson preparation one would find a reference for clear content objectives and clear language objectives; under the category of Lesson Delivery, it asks that the students be engaged 90-100% of the time. Each component is designed to encourage the teacher to consciously plan how the students will interact with the language, the content, and their peers. |
What does the Summer SIOP Institute look like?
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This SIOP Institute lasts from 3-5 days long. Each day highlights specific aspects of the SIOP framework using model lessons, practical strategies, and techniques. Teachers discuss the lessons and identify the SIOP components that are addressed in each lesson. Then, teachers practice implementing the techniques and make a plan for how they will apply them in their teaching contexts.
This course can be tailored for your school to meet any scheduling constraints or design preferences. We can provide content and focus that is specific to any group of teachers (e.g., primary school teachers, language arts teachers, etc) Contact John Kongsvik to learn more. |
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Here is a list of objectives for this institute:
- Determine the principles of SIOP and how they can be used to support learning.
- Identify the 8 components of SIOP and how they support teaching and learning.
- Notice how the steps of a lesson support/stifle SIOP components and features.
- Gain the knowledge and skills to use sheltered instructional strategies in any context.
- Create SMART language and content objectives.
- Develop 8 strategies for teaching academic language in all contexts.
- Gain 10 strategies for making content comprehensible to all learners.
- Acquire the ability to use the Gradual Release of Responsibility to scaffold students.
- Develop skills at creating think time for students.
- Use cooperative grouping and pair sharing to promote oral language development.
- Promote effective academic listening and viewing skills.
- Gain strategies to integrate the 4 domains of language in every lesson.
- Increase the variety & volume of student interactions with language and content.
- Develop the ability to engage their students 90-100% of the time in meaningful ways.
- Hone ability to ignite metacognition skills in learners.
- Provide meaningful review of language and content using 4 recycling strategies.
- Acquire the ability to plan face to face and remote lessons using SIOP principles as a guide.
- Gain skills at planning, teaching, and reflecting on lessons: remote and face to face.
- Use the Conscious Competence Matrix to promote teacher development.
TESOL Trainers Offers Tailor-Made SIOP PD for All K-12 Teachers
TESOL Trainers can tailor-make this course to fit your needs. While most schools choose the 5-day program, we can provide you with a 3-day SIOP Summer Institute. Some schools want to target specific grades and/or subjects. We can train K-6 teachers in the morning and 7-12 teachers in the afternoon. Many schools desire to have a remote PD. We have the most engaging online PDs your teachers will ever attend!
Why TESOL Trainers?
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TESOL Trainers is the #1 provider of experiential professional development. Whether you choose a remote SIOP institute or a traditional one, every moment from beginning to end is interactive. Instead of lecturing our audience, we invite them into the whole experience as an active learner, a teacher, and an observe of the two. In an interactive format, participants will:
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