SIOP Reflection by Kristi McGrath https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z Which of the three components do you feel most comfortable with? Which of the three components do you feel least comfortable with? Why? How can you develop your comfort with the other areas? en-us 2017-06-29 13:17:30 UTC 2019-03-11 00:32:38 UTC hello@padlet.com Karen Roebuck https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/334443283 I feel most comfortable with the academic vocabulary.  I teach math and use a lot of manipulatives in order to describe the vocabulary.  I also use vocabulary cards that contain a picture of the meaning of the word.  I work with small groups and have the pictures out during instruction.  I try to limit my use of extra vocabulary that is not needed for the lesson.  
The area in which I am working is building background. This is the area of struggle for me because I do not know what students have been exposed to in the past. A few years back, I referenced a farm in some word problems. A few students did not know what I was speaking of. I had to bring in pictures in order to build the background of what the word problem was referring. I need to constantly remind myself to discuss the context of the problems to make sure students understand the context in order to focus on understanding of the math. Now, I try to stick with situations that we have experienced in the school (ie. recess or the cafeteria) as situations for my word problems. As I get to know the students through the year, it is easier to know some of their background. ]]> 2019-02-23 14:35:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/334443283 Rachel Pratt https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/334636802 The three components I feel most comfortable with are building background, strategies and interaction.  When building background using a text, I might show a video related to the text.  We also might complete a KWL chart or the SQ3R strategy to help with building background, surveying the text and identifying key vocabulary.  I have used strategies and organizers in my lessons to help make inferences and clarify information.  I’m also very comfortable with interaction.  I structure the desks so the students are in groups.  They have multiple times to interact with partners, groups or in large discussions to help promote learning.

The three components I feel least comfortable with are comprehensible input, lesson preparation, and lesson delivery.  I feel I need to focus on language that is appropriate for students’ proficiency level.  I also would like to work on content and language objectives that make sense for all students.  Delivery of the lesson is so important.  Pacing can be difficult for me, because we have so many objectives to cover throughout the year.  I need to slow down to make sure students understand what they are learning.  The way I feel I can become more comfortable with these standards is by embedding them into my everyday lessons.  The more I use them, the more comfortable I will feel.  I can also ask other colleagues for help or resources.  Using other staff as a resource will give me great ideas to imbed in my lessons.  

]]> 2019-02-24 22:26:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/334636802 Sunmy Brown sunmy_brown https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/337117644 Out of the three SIOP components, I feel most comfortable with teaching the academic vocabulary. In the math classroom, I use as many visual supports (i.e. drawings, illustrations, symbols), mnemonic devices, and graphic organizers (i.e. TIP charts, concept mapping) to develop content-based vocabulary. I encourage students to use the Math Word Wall and other resources such their math journals and flip chart booklets to incorporate math vocabulary as often as possible into their short answer responses. Building background knowledge is the SIOP component I feel I need to develop more of especially when presenting my students with real-world problem scenarios that may not be universal to all students. I need to present students with examples that they can picture inside their heads and talk about with other students through a situation they are familiar with (i.e. such as painting a room, spending habits, cooking a recipe). Often times, I’ve encountered word problems that include pop-culture type of scenarios that students may not be familiar with. Therefore, using purposeful manipulatives, props, short video clips, drawings, pictures, can help build background knowledge and help students comprehend word problems in a dynamic and meaningful way. ]]> 2019-03-02 13:52:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/337117644 Kate Best https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/337881456 I feel most comfortable with building background, assessment, and academic vocabulary.  As a math specialist and part time math teacher, I usually work with the lowest students that need the most support in these 3 areas.  I also spent many years teaching Kindergarten and 1st grade, when students are coming to us at that age they often don't have the experiences to already have background knowledge regarding topics.  I'm also used to pairing pictures with vocabulary words and emphasizing usage in classroom content conversations.  I also am used to using exit tickets and formative assessments to drive instructional groupings.  I often feel the parts I am least comfortable with is regarding lesson delivery, input and strategies.  Often the best lesson delivery methods don't always work with every type of child.  There's many different types of learners and I can't always reach all of them with the same strategy and/or delivery.

]]> 2019-03-05 13:25:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/337881456 Renata Pereira https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/337890298 I feel more comfortable with building background, assessment and strategies. I always thinking about what they need to know to understand my lesson because I teach mathematics and I do believe we can not advance without have the knowledge about numbers sense and operations with Numbers. I do think I use well strategies to make my students get the information needed to learn the topics: vocabulary, write directions, repeat and ask a lot questions. I assess my students knowledge all the time with group work, quizzes and worksheets. I need to improve my interaction and  Practice/Application to make my students more engaged. When I use group work I need to elaborate it better in order to everyone get engaged. Also, I need to use more manipulative and make connections between real life situations and mathematics. ]]> 2019-03-05 13:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/337890298 Laura Connelly https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/337912570 I feel most comfortable with academic vocabulary. As an ELA teacher it's ingrained in me to teaching vocabulary, and teaching language that is specific to my content area goes hand in hand with the other vocabulary I am teaching. I also feel comfortable with my assessment practices and building background for my students. One of the areas I really need to work on is using manipulatives and helping my students think and interpret "out of the box. I'm not an out of the box type of person, but I always gain so much when someone teaches me something in an innovative way, especially with hands on materials.]]> 2019-03-05 14:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/337912570 Laura Smith laura_smith25 https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/338019671 I feel most comfortable with building background and academic vocabulary.  I have a spiraling curriculum so I know what the students learn from year to year. I can reference previous material in my lessons. However when we have a student transfer from out of county or even out of country I may have to start from scratch. I am finding myself in this situation right now due to an influx of new students. I probably have gotten around 15 new students in the past month. 
I am least familiar with strategies. This is what I am needing the most in my classroom to support my many EL students. I am discovering though, much of what we already do as teachers is considered a SIOP strategy. I show short you tube video clips all the time and never knew that was a strategy til this week. ]]> 2019-03-05 17:19:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/338019671 Kaitlyn Donovan https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/338023712 I feel most comfortable with academic vocabulary. For science, vocabulary is easily identified via the NGSS standards for each unit. Because much of our curriculum is spiralized, many of our vocabulary terms are used repeatedly. This gives me so many different opportunities to develop different strategies for exposure of these terms. Whether its using graphic organizers or imagery to help solidify student understanding, I feel very confident with the vocabulary aspect of things. 
I really tend to struggle when it comes to building background. It's difficult to find out just how much background certain students have on a certain topic when the topic doesn't lend itself well to visuals (such as natural selection, evolution, etc). This then can hurt students in the sense that I might not be providing all of the necessary content that they may not have been exposed to yet. A way that I can improve this is via working closely with my foreign language teachers to help develop well versed pre-tests to help me with this. ]]> 2019-03-05 17:25:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/338023712 Vicky Carmona https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/338670410 The SIOP strategy that I feel most comfortable with is building background knowledge. Activating prior knowledge also gives me a chance to get to know my students better by having them share past experiences and past learning.  In addition it gives me a starting point for building background knowledge.  My favorite way to do this is bringing in realia because that's the most engaging.  Showing a short video or photographs also works and is faster and easier to plan.  The strategy where I could use some improvement  is teaching academic and content vocabulary.  If this is my main focus I'm very comfortable with teaching academic and content vocabulary, but this is usually not the case.  With a 30 minute lesson focusing on writing or reading the hardest part is deciding which words to teach and the most efficient and effective way to do that.  My biggest challenge is trying to fit it all in.]]> 2019-03-07 00:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/338670410 Amy Nelson https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/339566495 The SIOP strategy I feel most comfortable with is building background knowledge. The strategies and skills I teach in group counseling sessions build off of each other. It is extremely important for us to revisit skills prior to moving on to a new one. It is essential to keep activating prior knowledge to ensure they remember it and use it.  I bring many visuals to each group from previous groups which also includes vocabulary words and definitions. During groups we are also always making connections between personal experiences, beliefs and feelings regarding what we are learning. 
An area I am working on improving is language learning strategies. This does not come natural in group therapy lessons but can be built in by drawing pictures or using gestures to communicate when words don't come to mind, encouraging substituting a known work when unable to pronounce an unfamiliar word and helping to apply basic reading skills. 
Incorporating these into my lessons and practicing them regularly is how I will develop comfort.

]]> 2019-03-09 15:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/339566495 I love building background. It has always been my favorite part of my lessons. I enjoy showing videos, pictures, employing humor, and using realia, props, and skits. An area where I could improve is employing more metacognitive strategies. Within the Strategies component, I feel like I focus much more on teaching students to use cognitive and language learning strategies and leave very little time to focus on important metacognitive strategies such as comprehension monitoring. I can develop better proficiency in employing metacognitive strategies by printing out and laminating the "List of Strategies" sheet from this module and using a dry erase marker to check that I am consistently using metacog strategies. julia_page1 https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/339568276 2019-03-09 15:27:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/339568276 Jen Lacy Of the three SIOP components, I feel most comfortable with academic vocabulary. As a special educator, much of my work at the secondary level, is assisting students in making meaningful connections to the content. In order to best support my students, we must explore the content vocabulary. Pre-teaching this allows my students to better relate to the content being later presented. Vocabulary development is also so important when it comes to assessment, and therefore has become a key player in my instructional practices. I feel that developing vocabulary must be multi-sensory and create a captive audience by its presentation in order to be most accessible. https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/339679267 2019-03-10 14:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/339679267 Karalee Nagel karalee_nagel https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/339712966 Of the three components, I feel most comfortable with building background, likely because I do it regularly with my intervention groups as many of them include a Guided Reading component. Building background is always part of my book introduction, especially with nonfiction texts or science-related/historical fiction texts. I will often use short video clips, photographs, and maps to help students build background on a particular topic before/during/after reading. ]]> 2019-03-10 18:09:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/339712966 I believe I am best at building background. The rapport I have with my students is by far my strongest asset. With this rapport, we can easily chat and make connections to build background. It is fluid and it's fun. While I'm aware of a lot of strategies, it seems that trying to recall and manage them in regards to differentiation in the classroom is by far the most challenging for me. I'd like to just focus on one or two strategies that will work across my plans each week. I believe that mastery is essential. teresa_meggitt https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/339767919 2019-03-11 00:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kristi_mcgrath1/iqi2x51y8a4z/wish/339767919