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Implementing Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol and Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English

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to communicate critical concepts and ideas to those students. Communication in the classroom can be significantly hampered, however, when students have limited English proficiency (LEP). English language learners  (ELL) simply do not have the vocabulary to keep up in the typical classroom. Various classroom methodologies have been designed to help remedy this situation. One of the  more promising is Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP), a teaching methodology that is sometimes also referred to as Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE). SIOP is sometimes  described as a protective umbrella that is placed over students to give them a much-needed buffer between them and "the storm of concepts, contexts, and language" that characterizes mainstream education  (Gulack and Silverstein). This approach to teaching ELL students doesnt necessitate changing curriculum (Echevarria & Short, 2004). Instead the teacher incorporates objects, material, graphics, diagrams, etc. onto the  curriculum that serve to clarify each point that they make in their lecture (Haynes, 2004). Paraphrasing the educational message in a variety of ways while pointing to these materials  or utilizing them however they are designed to be utilized is another important technique in SIOP (Echevarria & Short, 2004). Equally important is allowing for classroom interaction with  the lesson content so that collaborate their learning (Echevarria & Short, 2004). As Senge (2009) observes people benefit from organizational structure "where new and expansive patterns of thinking are  nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together" (13). All of the SIOP methodologies are of particular benefit to  ELL because they help them develop the word familiarity that they need to communicate adequately in English and to keep up in the classroom (Echevarria & Short, 2004). While