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Observation Protocol (SIOP*)

SIOP provides teachers with a simple, yet powerful framework for planning and teaching lessons.

Dr. John Kongsvik
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What Is SIOP?

Setting Students Up For Success With SIOP

SIOP, or Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol, is a research based, instructional framework that teachers can use when planning, teaching, and reflecting upon their lessons.

SIOP encourages teachers to design and deliver student-centered lessons that maximize student opportunities to interact with the language, the content, and their peers in meaningful ways.

The Building Blocks of Effective Instruction: Exploring SIOP Core Components

SIOP is broken down into 8 categories for teachers to consider when planning and teaching a lesson. Each one of these components captures a critical component of teaching.

 

Each of these 8 SIOP components is broken down into features (30 in all) that serve to further define its purpose.

For example, within the SIOP component Lesson Preparation, you will find features like creating content and language objectives. Engaging students 90-100% of the time is a feature that is found under the Lesson Delivery component.

 

From Lesson Preparation through Lesson Delivery to Review and Evaluation, SIOP provides teachers with a simple, yet powerful framework for planning and teaching lessons.

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SIOP Feature #29: Provide feedback to students regularly on their output ​
Teach with SIOP Feature #29 by providing regular feedback to students. Learn effective strategies to give constructive feedback & support student growth
SIOP Feature #27 ​Give a comprehensive review of key vocabulary​
Teach with SIOP Feature #27 by reviewing key vocabulary terms for students. Learn strategies to reinforce essential vocabulary for better comprehension
SIOP Review and Evaluation
Teach with SIOP Component #8 by focusing on review & evaluation for student mastery. Learn strategies to assess & reinforce student understanding
SIOP Feature #26: Pace the lesson appropriately to the students ability level
Enhance teaching with SIOP Feature #26 by pacing lessons for students' ability levels. Learn strategies to ensure all students can keep up and succeed
SIOP Feature #25: Engage Students 90-100% of the time
Discover how to improve teaching with SIOP Feature #25. Engage students 90% - 100% of the time with our programs for student engagement & participation
SIOP Feature #22: Provide activities that integrate all language skills.
Teach with SIOP Feature #22 by providing activities that integrate all language skills. Maximizing opportunities for integrated practice is vital to learning
SIOP Feature #21: Provide activities for students to apply content and language
Improve teaching with SIOP Feature #21 by using activities that guide students to apply content & language. Providing ample opportunities is key to learning
SIOP Feature #20: Provide hands-on materials and/or manipulative for students to practice using new content knowledge.
Improve teaching with SIOP Feature #20. We provide hands-on materials & manipulatives for students to practice new content knowledge effectively
SIOP Practice and Application
Discover how to improve teaching with SIOP Component #6: Practice & Application Strategies. Implement methods for hands-on learning & reinforcing lessons
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SIOP Benefits

What are the benefits of using SIOP to guide our planning and teaching?

Whether you teach in a remote learning environment, a hybrid format, or in a traditional setting, TESOL Trainers will transform how teaching & learning occur in your school. We provide experiential professional development that engages and empowers every participant. TESOL Trainers K-12 Professional Development is informative and inspiring. Watch John Kongsvik talk about it here.

Whether you teach in a remote learning environment, a hybrid format, or in a traditional setting, TESOL Trainers will transform how teaching & learning occur in your school. We provide experiential professional development that engages and empowers every participant. TESOL Trainers K-12 Professional Development is informative and inspiring. Watch John Kongsvik talk about it here.

  • Encourage teachers to design and deliver student-centered lessons that connect them to the language, content, and one another.
  • Helps teachers remember that at every moment in the lesson their students must be doing something with the content and the language.
  • Challenges teachers to engage their students 90-100% of the time in a variety of ways.
  • Asks that teachers plan activities that incorporate all four language domains: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
  • Pushes teachers expect more from their students and to scaffold more to support them.
  • Encourages teachers to be more aware when planning and when teaching to make content comprehensible.
  • Maximize opportunities to interact with the language, the content, and their peers in meaningful ways.
  • Helps all students succeed, regardless of their native language. SIOP gives teachers tools to design and deliver effective lessons.
  • Reminds teachers to put an equal emphasis on language as they do on content in both planning and teaching.

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SIOP Professional Development

How can TESOL Trainers,
Inc. help?

TESOL Trainers is the #1 provider of experiential K-12 professional development on SIOP. Our remote workshops are unique: They are very interactive; they are quick-paced; they are packed with innovative ideas, solid strategies, and tempting techniques that teachers will want to do. Here are some of the things your educators will get from our remote training sessions:

  • A PD that shows (rather than tells) teachers what SIOP is all about.
  • A PD that builds teacher confidence that they too can implement the strategies and techniques the workshop highlights.
  • A PD that cultivates competence by creating opportunities for teachers to try out the techniques, discuss how they'll look in their contexts, and share ideas.
  • A PD that leaves teachers wanting to learn more, teach better, and try harder.
* Echevarria, J., Vogt, M. E., & Short, D. J. (2017). Making content comprehensible for multilingual learners: The SIOP model (5th ed.). Pearson.

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