Last week, I attended a SIOP facilitators meeting at our school. No wonder that there's so much resistance and cynicism in my school about implementing SIOP. The philosophy of SIOP demands faithful implementation by at least 75% of a school staff before promising any results. There are eight SIOP components to lesson planning:
- Lesson Preparation
- Building Background
- Comprehensible Input
- Strategies
- Interaction
- Practice/Application
- Lesson Delivery
- Review/Assessment
But here's the thing: at some point, aren't we drilling down to such an excruciating level of detail in our demands of teachers, that we are making the act of teaching appear needlessly complex? Granted, teaching is not "simple", but even simple actions can be made to appear complex through over-analysis.
If you wanted to, you could break down the act of catching a ball into a sequence of 100 steps supplemented with formulas from physics and calculus. You could similarly break down the secrets to a healthy marriage down to the level of the timing and frequency of foot massages. But would the benefits of internalizing such advice be worth the effort? Isn't their a point of diminishing returns?
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