Ciara Dunlea

Professor Reilly
EDUC 359
3.30.2015
SIOP Model
Components of the SIOP Model

Lesson planning teachers must clearly define content objectives, clearly

define language objectives, select content concepts that are appropriate to
learners age and educational background, use a variety of supplementary
materials to make the lesson clear and meaningful, adapt the content to all
proficiency levels, and use authentic and meaningful activities and integrate
them into lesson concepts
Building Background - Concepts must be directly related to the students
background experiences when possible, whether personal, cultural, or academic.
Teachers must make explicit and direct links between past learning and new
concepts.
Comprehensible Input teachers should make assignments clear by using
vocabulary that the students can understand, and by providing a variety of
instructional experiences including hand gestures, facial expressions, and body
movement.
Strategies teacher must give students opportunities to use different instructional
strategies that are taught, use scaffolding techniques throughout the lessons, and
include a variety of question types that promotes higher order thinking.
Interaction teacher provide students with frequent opportunities for interaction
and discussion between teacher and student and among students and encourage
extended student discourse about the lesson concepts, carefully configures the
grouping of students to support language and content of the lesson, consistently
provide sufficient wait time for student responses, provide ample opportunities for
students to clarify key concepts in their native language
Practice and Application teachers provide hands-on materials and manipulatives
for students to practice using new content knowledge, provide activities for
students to apply content and language knowledge in the classroom, and use
activities that integrate all language skills
Lesson Delivery teachers clearly support the content objectives in lesson
delivery, clearly support the language objectives in lesson delivery, engage
students 90 percent to 100 percent of the time, and pace the lesson appropriately
to students ability level
Review and Assessment lessons must include a comprehensive review of key
vocabulary, include a comprehensive review of key content concepts, provide

regular feedback to students on their output, and conduct assessments of student

comprehension and learning of all lesson objectives throughout the lesson
Reflections
There was not much different between a traditional lesson plan and the SIOP
model. The SIOP model includes many components of traditional lesson planning. One
difference is the fact that the SIOP model focuses on students with lower levels of
abilities while traditional lesson planning focuses on students with higher levels of
abilities in addition to students with lower levels of abilities. Another difference between
the SIOP model and traditional lesson planning is the fact that SIOP model includes
language objectives in addition to content objectives.
What I think is effective for ELL students is the fact that teachers provide handson materials and manipulatives for students to practice using new content knowledge, and
the fact that teachers use the students background experiences to teach new content. The
only drawback that I see is that students who are new to our country might have trouble
interacting with the teacher and classmates due to language barriers.