ELL Classroom Observation Paper
ELL Classroom Observation The main purpose of this paper is to observe and evaluate an ELL lesson using the SIOP (The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) checklist ("Lesson Plan Checklist For The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)"). The emphasis of this observation will be on Lesson Preparation, Building Background, and Comprehensible Input. Using literature as an English learning tool is the lesson that we will be assessing in the paper.
The Lesson The use of literature is an effective tool in an ELL classroom to improve the language skills of the learners ("Adapt A Strategy: Adjusting Lessons For ESL/ELL Students"). As an authentic and unmodified language material, it improves the learners’ language awareness and exposes them to words and sentence structures that …show more content…
The initial discussion actually made the classroom hooked to the story. So 4 points for content objectives. Just like the content objectives, the learning outcomes and the language objectives were also displayed, explained, and reviewed with the students very clearly. Therefore, 4 points for this item as well. The contents of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer were perfectly appropriate for the educational background and the age of the ESL students. They could easily understand the literature. The choice of content was apposite here. Consequently, 4 points for this item also. Supplementary materials were used in this lesson to a high level. ‘Repeat after us’ and ‘Awesome stories’ were the two computer programs that were used as learning aids. The students were taught how to use ‘Thesaurus’ both online and offline to get the meaning of the words that were new to them. Multimedia presentation was also used in the beginning of the lesson to clarify the contents. So, 4 points for the use of supplementary
The Lesson The use of literature is an effective tool in an ELL classroom to improve the language skills of the learners ("Adapt A Strategy: Adjusting Lessons For ESL/ELL Students"). As an authentic and unmodified language material, it improves the learners’ language awareness and exposes them to words and sentence structures that …show more content…
The initial discussion actually made the classroom hooked to the story. So 4 points for content objectives. Just like the content objectives, the learning outcomes and the language objectives were also displayed, explained, and reviewed with the students very clearly. Therefore, 4 points for this item as well. The contents of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer were perfectly appropriate for the educational background and the age of the ESL students. They could easily understand the literature. The choice of content was apposite here. Consequently, 4 points for this item also. Supplementary materials were used in this lesson to a high level. ‘Repeat after us’ and ‘Awesome stories’ were the two computer programs that were used as learning aids. The students were taught how to use ‘Thesaurus’ both online and offline to get the meaning of the words that were new to them. Multimedia presentation was also used in the beginning of the lesson to clarify the contents. So, 4 points for the use of supplementary