A teacher demonstrates his thinking as he figures out how to write lessons when teaching ESL students.
ObjectiveStanford has great tools for secondary teachers using SIOP, sheltered instruction, also known as SDAIE. This site includes specific help for math and science teachers
How a languge objective is used to help the student get to the content objective.
This is a great 6 step lesson planning assistant that helps you write langugae objectives that help you meet your content objectives. Also includes other help for sheltered techniques.
In depth PP from St. Paul Public Schools on how to write language objectives and how it applies to our teaching in K-12. Great training PP resource.
Another great article from CREDE. Cognitively complex lessons for ESL students.
"Contextualize the learning of language and literacy". Yep, that is what we're doing with SIOP. We are helping teachers become aware of the language skills (we generally take for granted) students need to access the content in their classrooms.