The sixth component of SIOP, Practice & Application, asks the teacher to consider how the students will be practicing and applying the language and content of the lesson. Reflecting on the features of this component allows us to think about what content and language our students will be practicing and how they will go about it. Practice and Application SIOP
SIOP Component #6: Practice and Application
This component acts as a poignant reminder of what students should be doing during every step of the lesson (practicing and apply the content and language) and how they should be doing it. The first feature of this SIOP Component encourages teachers to involve students' hands with manipulatives and hands-on activities. The second feature tells teachers to give students meaningful ways to apply their knowledge and skills of the lesson's content and language. The final feature hints at the power behind integrating the four skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing) in one lesson. This component suggest we give students hands on opportunities that integrate the four skills and allow students to practice the lesson's culture and language.
SIOP challenges teachers to make students practice & apply language + content.
SIOP reminds us again and again that it is essential to pay just as much attention to the language as it is to pay attention to the content. SIOP invites the educator to consider how students will practice both. This is important when considering the challenge of getting students to own (versus rent) the language and the content of the lesson. Seeking means to use all four domains of language - speaking, listening, reading, writing - as a way of practicing the content and the specific language associated with it.
After 6 SIOP components, we are talking about teaching the lesson. The Lesson Delivery component of Sheltered Instruction invites the teacher to consider how every step in the lesson is moving the students closer to the lesson's objectives.
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SIOP Component #7: Lesson Delivery
SIOP's four features found under Lesson Delivery relate to what students are doing and how they are interacting with the content, the language, and one another. The first two features ask that teachers make sure what their students are doing is moving them towards owning the lesson's objectives. There are times when we get lost taking a tangent or time gets eaten up doing something that doesn't necessarily move the students any closer to owning the objectives. This component also challenges teachers to make sure that students are engaged 90-100% of the time. Measuring student engagement is an important feature of lesson delivery as is the pacing of the lesson. The latter can have a positive or negative impact on both engagement and learning.
SIOP asks teachers to make every step in their lessons count.
Time is the most precious commodity we have in teaching. One way to manage time effectively is to insure that every step in your lesson belongs. Whatever the students do (or don't do) either leads them towards or away from the SWBAT. This is a good rule of thumb to use when planning and evaluating your lesson plan. If the step or activity we chose doesn't get the students closer to owning the lesson's objective, it's taking them further away from it. SIOP, especially this Lesson Delivery Component, helps us determine whether our lesson plan is the most effective and most efficient.