Significant People
Programs
SIOP
Terms and Concepts
Variety
100
This early American believed that common schooling in the US would unite society, prevent crime, and create good citizens.
Who is Horace Mann?
100
This approach implements effective sheltered content instruction for students who are acquiring English.
What is SIOP?
100
SIOP is an acronym with a definite meaning.
What is Sheltered Instruction and Observation Protocol?
100
This phenomenon occurs when an ELL arrives in the US and experiences trauma resulting in depression, exhaustion, and the inability to process information quickly.
What is culture shock?
100
This theory contends that during stressful events, the brain raises a filter thereby making it difficult for new information to enter into long term memory.
What is the affective filter theory?
200
This guest speaker was an elementary teacher who taught in Loudin County, Virginia.
Who is Ms. Jenna Irwin?
200
This tiered intervention program is intended to help students who struggle with the general education curriculum.
What is RTII?
200
The use of bilingual or picture dictionaries and bilingual flashcards can help to build this SIOP component.
What is building background?
200
Unspoken rules and nonverbal behavior are the components of this type of culture.
What is deep culture?
200
This type of text includes main characters, plot, and sequencing of events.
What is narrative text?
300
This Canadian coined the terms BICS, CALP, and CUP in an effort to qualify a English Language learner's proficiency.
Who is Jim Cummins?
300
This is a separate block set aside each day to focus upon specific skills leading to English proficiency.
What is ESL or ESOL?
300
According to Steven Krashen there is only one way to acquire language: messages must be meaningful.
What is comprehensible input?
300
A student communicates infrequently in their L1 and is learning an L2 resulting in deficits in both languages.
What is subtractive bilingualism?
300
This document must be included in every public school student's cumulative folder in PA. It documents what native language is spoken in the home.
What is the Home Language Survey?
400
This individual wrote five hypotheses within a theoretical model of language acquisition.
Who is Steven Krashen?
400
The goal of these programs are assist ELLs in acquiring beginning English skills.
What is Newcomer Programs?
400
This SIOP "feature" is directly related to Vygotsky's contention that learning is a social act.
What is Interaction?
400
Acquiring a language is different from learning a language in that acquisition is the result of a distinct cognitive function.
What is a subconscious process?
400
This language skill means "thinking about your thinking." There are definite strategies that assist students to do this.
What is metacognition?
500
This Russian psychologist wrote a social development theory. In it, he contends that learning is a social act for children and that instruction should occur within the Zone of Proximal Development.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
500
The goal of this program is to teach ELLs in their native language to support them as they transition into English instruction. This is usually done with large groups speaking the same native language.
What is Bilingual education?
500
In SIOP, all teachers must post two types of objectives for each lesson.
What are content objectives and language objectives?
500
The goal of this type of assessment is NOT to measure the level of success at the end of a unit but rather to measure growth throughout instruction and to determine what strategies need to be implemented to ensure success.
What is formative assessment?
500
The result of this legislation is that a free appropriate public education should be provided for all students with disabilities.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
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