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The
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
Sheltered instruction has become a common instructional approach for language minority students, particularly as schools prepare students to achieve high standards. In a sheltered class, teachers use specific strategies to teach a content area in ways comprehensible to the students while promoting their English language development. Although sheltered instruction is widely advocated as an effective instructional strategy for language minority students, there had been little agreement among practitioners as to what constitutes an effective sheltered lesson. CREDE researchers have developed an explicit model of sheltered instruction, used that model for sustained professional development in four large urban districts to train teachers in effective strategies, and is conducting field experiments and collecting data to evaluate teacher change as well as the effects of sheltered instruction on LEP students’ English language development.
Teaching Language Minority Students in Elementary Schools
