Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP ModelLike no other text on the market, Making Content Comprehensible presents an empirically validated model of sheltered instruction. This text contains the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model, which provides school administrators, staff developers, teachers, teacher candidates, university faculty, and field experience supervisors with a tool for observing and quantifying a teacher''s implementation of quality sheltered instruction. New to This Edition
"Making Content Comprehensible is very practical and right on target for strategies in the field of ELLs." "What clearly distinguishes Making Content Comprehensible from others in the field is that it provides an easy-to-use, powerful, field-tested protocol for effective lesson planning, delivery and assessment." "The strength of Making Content Comprehensible is the clear picture it provides of instruction and the teaching scenarios. The discussion of the teaching techniques and evaluation of each of the three teachers provides invaluable examples for the student." Author Bios: Dr. Jana Echevarria is Chair of the Department of Educational Psychology, Administration and Counseling at California State University, Long Beach. Formerly she was a professor of Special Education. Her professional experience includes elementary and secondary teaching in special education, ESL and bilingual programs. She has lived in Taiwan and Mexico where she taught ESL and second language acquisition courses at the university level, as well as in Spain where she conducted research on instructional programs for immigrant students. After receiving a Masters Degree in Bilingual Special Education from California State University, Long Beach, she received her Ph.D. from UCLA and was one of the recipients of the National Association for Bilingual Education s Outstanding Dissertations Competition. Her research and publications focus on effective instruction for language minority students, particularly those with learning disabilities. Mary Ellen Vogt is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Reading at California State University, Long Beach. Prior to her work at the university, she was a reading specialist a the school and district levels. Dr. Vogt is a past president of the California Reading Association, and served on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association. She has authored chapters and articles in professional journals and texts, and has co-authored five books including: Portfolios in Teacher Education (1996; International Reading Association), Professional Portfolio Models (1998; Christopher-Gordon), Creativity and Innovation in Content Area Teaching (2000; Christopher-Gordon), and Making Content Comprehensible for English Language Learners: The SIOP Model (2000; Allyn & Bacon). Dr. Vogt is also an author of two K-8 reading series published by Houghton Mifflin: Invitations to Literacy and a Legacy of Literacy. She has been inducted into the California Reading Hall of Fame, and in 1999 she received the Distinguished Faculy Teaching Award from her university. Deborah J. Short directs the Language Education and Academic Development division at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, DC. She conducts school-based research on sheltered instruction and on effective programs for English language learners. She helped develop the national ESL standards. Her PhD specialization is bilingual/multicultural education. |
Contents
Introducing Sheltered Instruction | 1 |
Lesson Preparation | 20 |
Building Background | 44 |
Copyright | |
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