August 23-26 SIOP Training is now full.

Title III Professional Development for Teachers of English Language Learners

The workshops will be held in three regions in Michigan with significant demographic representation of ELLs. The specific locations for the summer workshops will be:

Ingham ISD (Lansing area) • August 23-26, 2010

2630 W. Howell Road
Mason, MI  48854
Meeting will be held in Thorburn Education Center in Room ABC

(The August 23-26 SIOP Training is now full.)
 
Title III of No Child Left Behind requires professional development of K-12 teachers and staff so that their English language learners (ELLs) can make academic progress in content area subjects while also acquiring and strengthening their skills toward greater English language proficiency.
 
In the summer of 2010, the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) will provide substantive, research-based professional development opportunities by organizing and supporting several regional SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) workshops for teams of ESL and general education (content area/classroom) teachers from local school districts. Each workshop will accommodate approximately 40-50 persons.  Sponsored by MDE and Great Lakes East Comprehensive Center, leaders from the Center for Applied Linguistics (Washington D.C.) will conduct the four-day workshops with the assistance of Michigan teacher-leaders who have completed SIOP train-the-trainer sessions earlier in the summer.
 
 
School district teams should have the following characteristics:

• Participants currently teach at an elementary or secondary school where ELLs are a part of the student population;
• Participants attend as members of school teams of 3-6 teachers, including both ESL/bilingual and grade level/content area teachers working with ELLs;
• Participants are willing to collaborate with members of their school team during and beyond the workshop as they implement the SIOP Model in their classrooms;

Participants are willing to engage in follow-up activities (e.g. SIOP coaching) during the school year.

Cost per person will be $350. Textbook, workshop materials, and lunches are included.

0.5-2.3 SB-CEUs will be available to participants.

Administrators from districts sending teams to a regional SIOP workshop will be requested to attend a special “overview of SIOP” session held in conjunction with the April 26, 2010 MDE-sponsored ELL Directors Meeting in Lansing. Administrators attending this session will learn more about their teachers’ SIOP training and begin to anticipate practical ways to implement aspects of the SIOP model in support of ELLs in content area classes.

Addresses and Overnight Accommodations: More information on workshop locations (address, etc.) will be up shortly. Also forthcoming will be overnight accommodation options in the area.