Sheltered English instruction is a set of components to help teachers scaffold learning for ELL students, build background knowledge, and connect new content to students’ prior knowledge. Sheltered instruction makes grade-level academic content more understandable for ELL students, while at the same time helps promotes English language development. There are eight essential components that help teachers guide their instruction and lesson planning. The eight components are:
· Preparation - stating the student friendly objective and use meaningful activities in the lesson
· Building Background Knowledge – linking new concepts to prior knowledge and directly teaching new vocabulary
· Comprehensible Input – clearly explain tasks/directions and use a variety of techniques
· Strategies – students use multiple strategies, higher level questioning, and teacher scaffolds the techniques
· Interaction – cooperative learning, predetermined grouping, and wait time for the students to process and respond
· Practice and Application – multiple materials and manipulative and integrate all language skills
· Lesson Delivery – engaging students 90-100% of the time and support objectives
· Review and Assessment – assess on vocabulary and key content concepts, and provide students with feedback on their performance
During my four years of teaching, I feel like all of these components are just essentials to being a great teacher and supporting all students’ needs. I the district that I am teaching in, most of these elements are required of all teachers and need to be present for any lesson. Objectives are always posted in student friendly language and referred back to during and at the end of the lesson. All students can benefit from having the new concepts connected to their prior knowledge and having many types of strategies used in a lesson. Every student has their own learning style. Assessment is a vital part of both the teacher and the student. I our district we have DOL or demonstrations of learning at the end of every lesson. The teacher can quickly assess what students understood the material and what students need to have a re-teach lesson. Students are also able to monitor their own learning too.
After watching a sheltered lesson found on TeacherTube.com, I was also able to observe all the eight components being used in one lesson. The lesson being taught was a math lesson about patterns. The teacher clearly stated the objective and stated off build accessing all the students’ background knowledge. The teacher asked the students where they see patterns in the real world and also showed some examples of patterns she found. The students used hands on manipulative during the lesson and all key vocabulary was stated with a student friendly definition and a picture to accompany it. When a student solved a patter, the teacher used higher level questioning to make sure the student clearly understood how they can to their answer. The students also worked cooperatively in groups and with partners during part of the lesson. At the end, the students were assessed on their gained knowledge. The teacher walked around the room and gave immediate feedback for all the students. Sheltered instruction in my opinion is just great instruction that can benefit any student.
http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=34815&title=New_Instructional_Model_Helps_English_Learners_Succeed
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