Evaluation of lesson plans: SIOP Lesson Plans and Activities
Choose two lesson plans from the “SIOP Lesson Plans and Activities.” Write a 250-500 word evaluation of each lesson. Your evaluations should address the following:
250-500 word essay
First lesson plan: http://www.cal.org/siop/pdfs/lesson-plans/dragonfly-lesson-plan.pdf
- Do you see sufficient integration of SEI strategies?
Yes it follows the SEI strategy that says
*****Use cooperative learning strategies
Functioning in small groups is especially helpful to ELLs who have angenuine reason to use educational vocabulary and real reasons to deliberate on important concepts. ELLs profit from cooperative learning assemblies. Be sure to assign each member a job and you periodically monitor each ones participation.
- Is academic vocabulary addressed?
Yes, when they
- Read the chart as students read along as a shared reading text
- When the read and get together in groups
- Share they orally share there dragonfly graphic organizer in front of the entire class.
- What supports the instruction of vocabulary?
The teacher supports instruction of vocabulary by writing in correct English “A dragonfly is an…” for the students to write on the top right square of the Four Corners graphic organizer.
Be sure to include links to the lesson plans in your evaluation for your instructor.
http://www.cal.org/siop/pdfs/lesson-plans/dragonfly-lesson-plan.pdf
250-500 word essay
Second lesson plan: http://www.cal.org/siop/pdfs/nocturnal-vs-diurnal-animals-lesson.pdf
- Do you see sufficient integration of SEI strategies?
Yes it follows the SEI stragegy that says
Use cooperative learning strategies
Functioning in small groups is especially helpful to ELLs who have an genuine reason to use educational vocabulary and real reasons to deliberate on important concepts. ELLs profit from cooperative learning assemblies. Be sure to assign each member a job and you periodically monitor each ones participation.
- Is academic vocabulary addressed?
Yes, through Using T-charts, visual aid images (photographs), and other graphic organizers; developing vocabulary through context clues; summarizing key information. Academic vocabulary is also used through the key vocabulary given by teacher and provided books, photographs and charts.
- What supports the instruction of vocabulary?
Instruction of vocabulary is supported by teacher
- Reading the book Where Are the Night Animals? (orany similar book) to students.
- Teacher stopping periodically to discuss each of the animals in the book and what adaptations they have that show us they are nighttime, or nocturnal, animals.
- The teacher explaining the word adaptation and ask the students to Think-Pair-Share some examples of adaptations they know.
- Teacher Providing a sentence stems, and asking students to predict if an animal is nocturnal
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The SEI strategiesmake content comprehensible for the ELLs in their areas of learning and are a set of practices regarded in the multiple assistance of the students in a class. The dragon-fly lesson plan engaged the use of sufficient SEI strategies as evidenced below.
Cooperative Learning Strategy
The lesson plan engaged in the use of cooperative learning as an SEI strategywhich entails the organization of the students into small groups……………….
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