1. Rationale:The basic principle in the L540 class is that language instruction should be contextualized within content, in order to sustain academic progress and interest of English Language Learners in the classroom. This assignment provides you with the opportunity to be both a developer and a consultant for content-based language instruction.
2. Tasks: You will attend and observe a content classroom (e.g. anthropology, math, computer science class) taught either on campus or in your location (see me for alternative arrangements). You will then develop a "sheltered" language lesson plan for the content class using SIOP as your guide.
* if you want to use a foreign language classroom, speak to me first
Process
Contact a professor or instructor before Week 14 and request permission to observe.
Try to get information about the class, including topic, readings, and handouts. These will help you better understand class that you will observe.
Be in the class 5-10 minutes before it begins and touch base with the professor/instructor once more.
Take notes during the observation using SIOP as your guide
Write the report.
Paper
(Lesson Analyses and Reconstruction)
Length and format: The paper should be 4-5 pages in length not including references, single-spaced, in font 12, 1" margins on all sides. The paper should be organized using the content elements below (a-e) as a headings for their respective sections.
Content:
a. Overall Description and Setting: Lesson focus; level; student type (about 1/2 page)
b. Lesson Strengths/Potentials: Identify and weave in concepts of sheltered instruction that you see evident in the instruction. (less than 1 page)
c. Areas of improvement: Identify areas that require improvement. (less than 1 page)
d. Lesson reconstruction: Use the SIOP protocol to develop a sheltered lesson for the content lesson you observed. (about 1-2 pages)
e. Reconstruction explanation: Explain the recontstruction (about 1-2 pages)
Research component: For b, c, e, please include and weave in information encountered in readings and cite its sources in the text and in the reference section. The APA writing, citing and referencing conventions must be used throughout the paper. (APA citation style help)
Note: If plagiarism is evident in the paper, it will be returned without a grade and the student will receive an "I" from the course.