How-To- Do This (Disposition Diary)

Component/Features/Dispositions Diary Component/Feature Diary (from syllabus) You will keep a reflective electronic diary throughout the semester as you read the chapters in each book- SIOP and 99 More Activities. This diary will aid you to connect actual activities for classrooms to the protocol features demonstrating implementation ideas for the 30 SIOP features. The purpose of this diary is to reflect on each of the 8 components and specifically show how to implement the 30 SIOP features.

You will :

1) Reflect on the component as they do in the beginning of each chapter in 99 More Ideas.

 a. Share how you feel about this component and

 b. How this component affects both language and content development.

 2) Then, for each feature in the component you will select an idea/activity described in the 99 More Ideas and share.

 a. How this strategy helps the teacher address the feature, and

 b. How this strategy can differentiate for his/her students 

Example: Component 1/ Features 1-6

Reflection: I have always been a planner so that I can predict

what might be difficult for my students so I can be prepared to address misconceptions. Having to

plan for all four (4) language domains reminds me to address everyone’s needs at varying proficiency

levels. Preparation is the key to good instruction for all students.

Feature 1
Predict Learning Outcomes Using Sentence Frames- p. 10 This is a great strategy to communicate learning objectives because it has the student internalize it enough to decide if they think it will be easy or difficult and then to say why. It’s immediately differentiated because each student is pinpointing what they need to work on and a teacher can review it to make instructional decisions as she/he is teaching. You also save them to review at the end for students to reflect upon learning.

Feature 2 This one is really just for the teacher to reflect upon writing language objectives based on her students’ needs and considering different types of objectives that can be written.

Feature 3

Feature 4 

Feature 5

Feature 6