Structured English Immersion –

sei500

(3 credits)

This course will introduce students to the concept of and methods for instructing in a Structured English Immersion (SEI) environment. Students will learn about assessment of K–12 students, state standards, research-based instructional activities, and lesson planning and implementation models. Students will study how a learner-centered approach to teaching can provide English Language Learners (ELL), as well as native English speakers, with a greater opportunity to interact meaningfully with educational materials as they learn subject matter and ELL acquire English.

This graduate-level course is 6 weeks. To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.

Topics and Objectives

SEI Foundations Objectives
- Know the legal, historical, and educational reasons for Structured English Immersion (SEI).
- Know basic SEI terminology.
- List language acquisition theoretical principles.
- Outline the role of culture in learning.
- Introduce basic interpersonal communication skills and cognitive academic language proficiency.
ELL Proficiency Standards for Listening and Speaking, Reading, and Writing
- Examine the format and the alignment of ELL Proficiency Standards to state language arts (listening and speaking, reading, and writing) academic standards.
- Use ELL Proficiency Standards to plan, deliver, and evaluate instruction.
- Demonstrate the integration of ELL Proficiency Standards in all content areas.
Data Analysis and Application
- Analyze and apply disaggregated data to differentiate instruction.
- Interpret and use "snapshots" of longitudinal data.
- Track student status and progress on the ELL proficiency standards using the Stanford English Language Proficiency results or your state's assessment.
Formal and Informal Assessment
- Integrate diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments for ELLs.
- Create and offer multiple assessments.
- Use assessment results for placement and accommodation for special education and gifted students.
- Use standardized testing and language proficiency as methods for monitoring student progress.
Learning Experiences: SEI Strategies
- Identify and use multiple strategies to improve student achievement.
- Extend SEI methods for beginning ELD (TPR Storytelling^®, contextual clues, and narrative approach).
- Describe the silent period (ways of responding, developmental processes).
- Grasp meaning of pre- and early production strategies of students.
- Integrate current materials in ELD instruction (lesson and text modifications).
- Extend SEI content methods (preview/review, content area reading and writing strategies, experiential methods).
- Analyze and apply vocabulary development approaches in the content areas.
- Plan lessons based on prior knowledge.
- Select, adapt, and sequence current curricular materials.
- Integrate comprehensible input; ongoing, specific, and immediate feedback; grouping structures and techniques; building background and vocabulary development; and student engagement.
Parent/Home/School Scaffolding
- Identify the socio-cultural influences on ELLs (language shift, identity issues, role of culture in learning).
- Discuss the impact of bilingualism and home language use.
- Examine parental and community sources for aiding English acquisition.
- Cultivate home and school partnerships.
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP®)
- Evaluate a lesson using the SIOP^® instrument.

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While widely available, not all programs are available in all locations or in both online and on-campus formats. Please check with a University Enrollment Advisor.
Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.

Structured English Immersion –

sei500

SEI Foundations Objectives

ELL Proficiency Standards for Listening and Speaking, Reading, and Writing

Data Analysis and Application

Formal and Informal Assessment

Learning Experiences: SEI Strategies

Parent/Home/School Scaffolding

Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP®)

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