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Making Standards-based Lessons Understandable for English Learners: The SIOP Model (Research from CREATE)

Date Archived: 11/08/2007
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This presentation is co-sponsored by SchoolsMovingUp and CREATE (Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners) and focuses on the challenges English learners encounter in learning grade-level content (e.g., math, science, social studies) through a second language. In this interactive online presentation Jana Echevarria, Professor of Education at California State University, Long Beach, will provide an overview of the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Model of instruction, which provides educators with a research-based approach for making standards-based lessons understandable for English learners. With an emphasis on engaging learners and providing ample opportunity for students to use academic English in meaningful ways, the SIOP’s 8 components and 30 features offer a framework around which lessons are organized. With its growing body of research, the SIOP Model has been shown to improve the achievement of students whose teachers implemented it to a high degree. The observation protocol is used by school administrators, teachers, staff developers, and university faculty for observing and quantifying a lesson’s effectiveness. Currently the SIOP Model is used in all 50 states in the U.S. and in several countries.

This presentation is co-sponsored by SchoolsMovingUp and CREATE (Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners). Visit the CREATE web site for rich resources including instructions on how to join the CREATE's listserv and how to receive CREATE’s newsletter.

Archived events co-sponsored by SchoolsMovingUp and CREATE (Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners):

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Double the Work: Challenges and Solutions to Acquiring Language and Academic Literacy for Adolescent ELLs with Deborah Short, Senior Research Associate at the Center for Applied Linguistics



Primary Presenters

Jana Echevarria, Professor of Education, California State University, Long Beach



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