Sheltered Instruction

What is the definition of Sheltered Instruction?

• Sheltered instruction is a teaching method. It employs a wide variety of strategies that a teacher uses to modify their instruction so that students can negotiate the value of the lesson, the language and the concepts.

Sheltered Instruction in Action is :

• Teachers must understand the application of language, the acquisition of language, the stages of language development, what influences productivity, what influences negative productivity.

• Teachers must also understand how culture influence student behaviors and outcomes.

The Four Cornerstones of Sheltered Instruction are:

• Hands on activities

• Guarded vocabulary

• Visual Clues

• Cooperative learning
  

Expectations of Sheltered Instruction:

• Listening and speaking skills always precede reading and writing skills

• Guard against concurrent translation

• Understand where your students are relative to their language development

Expectations of Sheltered Instruction in Action are:

• What level are students actually on?

• Needs to make sure that students are actively participating

• Trying to get language out and not language in

• Every component of the lesson needs to be carefully considered and planned

Sheltered Instruction Strategies:

• Show pictures and every time you say the name of the object or person, you emphasize it.

• Show visual cues of the important dates and emphasize it. Pictures can help depict what it is.

• Clarify important words. Use the word and then simplify it as much as you can

• Use a lot of hand cues to visualise locations or actions