Sheltered Instruction.

What is sheltered instruction?

• A form of bilingual education in which students are taught literacy and content in two languages.

• A method of teaching English language learners that fits the recommended model of culturally responsive education.

• An approach to language teaching in which the whole course is structured around themes.

The goal of SI is help EL´s develop (check all that apply):

• Motivation

• Content knowledge

• Self-steem

• Language profiency

• Academic skills

Where is sheltered instruction used (check all that apply)?

• It is used in English as a second language (ESL) programs with sheltered content courses.

• Transitional bilingual education, developmental bilingual education, dual-language programs.

• Two-way immersion programs.

(a)   language refers to communication that occurs in a context of shared understanding, where there are cues or signals that help to reveal the meaning (e.g. visual clues, gestures, expressions, specific location).

Characteristics of the sheltered instruction models are...

• A focus on content language and objectives.

• Making content comprenhensible for students.

• The use of alternate assessments to accurately determinate what students know regardless of their English proficiency level.

• Use the same instructions and directions for all learners.

• Ignore the EL´s language level.

How can you plan with intention to teach content and language simultaneously ?

• Design Content-Driven instruction.

• Develop comprehensible input.

• Foster language development.

• Focus more on the language than in the content.

• Modify the content to a lower grade lever for ELs.

The following are meaningful ways of sharing objectives with the students embedded in instruction except one.

Which one is it?

• Do not use picture cues or symbols.

• Use color coding to emphasize academic vocabulary.

• Share at the beginning of the lesson to set the expectations.

• Review at the end of the lesson to check for understanding.

(a)   objectives are typically derived from state content standards. They also state the cognitive skills or knowledge that students are expected to acquire during a lesson