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The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP®) Model (Echevarria, Vogt
& Short, 2004) was developed to provide English language learner teachers with a
well articulated, practical model of sheltered instruction. In 2005,
LessonLab acquired
the SIOP Institute to further our professional development offerings and to support the
needs of faculty and administrators in learning about and implementing this innovative
teaching model.
SIOP Model
The SIOP Model is currently used in hundreds of schools across the U.S. as well as in
several other countries. The model facilitates high quality instruction for English
Language Learners (ELLs) in content area teaching. The SIOP is also used as a model
for lesson planning and implementation of high quality sheltered instruction. While
the SIOP Model was developed specifically to ensure quality instruction for English
Language Learners, it has been shown to be effective in addressing the needs of all
students.
SIOP Research
The SIOP is a research-based observation instrument that has been shown to be a valid
and reliable measure of sheltered instruction (Guarino, Echevarria, Short, Schick,
Forbes, & Rueda, 2001). In a study examining the effects of the SIOP Model on
student achievement, students whose teachers implemented the SIOP Model to a high
degree in middle school classes outperformed those students in sheltered classes whose
teachers were unfamiliar with the model. Critical features of high quality instruction
for ELLs are embedded within the SIOP Model.
SIOP Programs and Institutes
The SIOP Model can be viewed as an umbrella under which other programs developed for
improving instruction can reside. Administrators and teachers alike are bombarded with
new approaches to instruction, reform efforts, and practices that sometimes seem to be
in competition with one another. Often what is lacking in schools is coherence, or a
plan for pulling together sound practices (Goldenberg, 2004). The SIOP Model is a
framework that can bring together a school's instructional program by organizing
methods and techniques, and ensuring that effective practices are implemented —
and can be quantified.
For more information about the SIOP Model and attending a SIOP Institute, visit
http://www.siopinstitute.net.
Several
professional development offerings are now available through the SIOP Institute.
English Language Learners
Mathematics
Reading & Literacy
Science
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