The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Model is a research-based and validated instructional model that has proven effective in addressing the academic needs of English learners throughout the United States.

The SIOP Model consists of eight interrelated components:

• Lesson Preparation

• Building Background

• Comprehensible Input

• Strategies

• Interaction

• Practice/Application

• Lesson Delivery

• Review & Assessment

Using instructional strategies connected to each of these components, teachers are able to design and deliver lessons that address the academic and linguistic needs of English learners.

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As the number of English learners increases in schools across the United States, educators are seeking effective ways to help them succeed in K-12 ESL, content area, and bilingual classrooms. Research shows that when teachers fully implement the SIOP Model, English learners' academic performance improves. 

 

In addition, teachers report that SIOP-based teaching benefits all students, not just those who are learning English as an additional language.

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SIOP is essential for our ESOL students and best practices for all of our students. When students are studying a content, they are ALL academic language learners. SIOP supports the acquisition of the content through listening, speaking, reading and writing opportunities that help promote higher order thinking skills.

  -from CAL SIOP

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