Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Goal
My goal this year has been to start implementing various aspects of the SIOP model. Specifically I am working on adding language and content objectives to each of my classes. While this has been difficult and time consuming, I hopefully will be able to save myself a lot of time by saving the objectives for the next few years. I have been especially thorough in implementing my objectives (both content and language) in my English Learners class. The students have benefited greatly from the extra focus it provides on my lessons. Even mainstream students have benefited from the organization. This in turn has minimized questions from students who either arrive late for class or miss a class. In addition to the implementation of objectives, I have also reorganized my room so that missing work and late work is easy to find and to turn in. I continue to update my website for students and parents and use the template as a reference for myself when teaching specific units.
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I have been wondering how to implement SIOP in my room. I have 5 different classes a day and cannot decide what would be the best way to display the objectives and be able to change them easily. How do you do it in your room, Josh?
ReplyDeleteI too have been trying to figure out a way to implement it in my classroom. Last year I did the trainings and I have been struggling to figure out how to post things for so many different classes without wasting paper. Each class is a little different so I would be creating 26 different language and content objectives.
ReplyDeleteMy goal this year was to do it with my Junior High kids and then try 5th grade. However, I don't have JH kids this year so I haven't started.
The SIOP leaders suggested doing one grade level at a time and tweaking things to see how it works and not adding another grade level until you felt comfortable doing so.
Good Luck!
I have also been working on my content and language objectives. I did the SIOP training last year for my first year of teaching and I must say it helped me a lot! Last year was my first time using content and lanuage objectives and I must say that I really only used content objectives.
ReplyDeleteThis year, my goal is to use more language objectives and what has helped me is to have my content objectives from last year to support writing my language objectives this year. I can look back to how I taught the lesson with my lesson plans and use how I taught help me write my language objectives. It is hard work to come up with language objectives when it is a first time teaching the subject. I have realized that it is hard to think of just "how" you are going to teach when you have never taught it before.
This year, I have been making notes about each lesson and how I can teach it better for following years. I am also writing language objectives that I will be able to change slightly and improve over time.
Baby steps! I don't think there is any way to implement both CO and LO every day for five grade levels all in the same year. But creating them this year and having a strategy to save them and use them again next year will definitely pay off!
ReplyDeleteMaybe you all can continue to share strategies for the logistics... I know one strategy that has been working for teachers with multiple preps and for traveling teachers is using laminated 'posters' for objectives that can be reused. Might work?