Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)

The most important features to consider about methods according to the eclectic approach are:

1. Roots:

• Communicative approach

• The SIOP model was developed in the 1990s by three educators: Jana Echevarria, MaryEllen Vogt, and Deborah J. Short. They recognized the challenges that ELLs faced in content classrooms where language demands often exceeded their language proficiency levels. The goal was to create a structured framework that would help teachers make content understandable to ELLs while promoting language development. To sum up the SIOP model aims to provide effective language instruction while making content accessible and comprehensible to ELLs.

2. Steps or stages to follow: In this method are presented as components and principles.

3. Drawbacks and Advantages: Here you will find some of them but you will define more from practice.

These two last features are presented in the following infography