SIOP Interaction Kits

 Is your school looking for ways to create more opportunities for student interaction and oral language across content areas? Have you been SIOP-trained and you're looking for more tools to support component number 5 (interaction)? Take a peek at this tool kit you may wish to compile to support your work! 

The link will take you to a page with a listing of potential tools you may wish to include, along with a photo and a link to purchase. There is also a column on the left that describes some ways in which you might use the tool in your classroom. 

As you slowly try out and introduce tools to students, co-construct and establish norms for using the tools, like a t-chart of Ways We Can Use this Tool to Help Us Learn vs. Ways We Wouldn't Use this Tool To Help Us Learn. I like paying attention to labels like this instead of Correct vs. Incorrect labels.  Having students join you in creating the norms is a great way for students to see how much we trust and value their ideas.

If you are a coach or a coordinator, I might suggest compiling these tools for educators you serve and adhere a QR code to the container of tools (see image below), or you could also create short videos describing the tool, as I have done here.



 Highlight the ways that teammates are using the tools and create a bank of videos of the tools in action, or reflection videos of how the tools have been used. These can be housed in a shared Google Drive or on a team Padlet. 


Toolkits like these can provide everything at an educators' fingertips to support the rollout of SIOP implementation!

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