Making Content Comprehensible for Multilingual Learners
Echevarria, Jana / Vogt, Maryellen / Short, Deborah / Toppel, Katie
Our work on the SIOP Model started in the early 1990s when there was a growing population of multilingual learners in the United States, but no coherent model for teaching this student population. We began by reviewing the literature and examining district-produced guidelines for multilingual learners in an effort to find agreement on a definition of sheltered instruction. A preliminary observation protocol was drafted and field-tested with sh...