What do teachers experience when they participate in SIOP workshops?
The content of the workshop may vary depending on the type of SIOP professional development service we are providing. For example, teachers participating in a SIOP workshop series will learn about and practice the eight components of the SIOP Model in order to effectively integrate language and content instruction for English language learners, while coaches attending a SIOP coaching workshop will learn about the SIOP coaching cycle and practice coaching skills. Although each SIOP workshop is unique, our workshops always start with a discussion of our content and language objectives for the day, and they include a variety of activities, such as demonstrations, explanations, analysis of video-taped lessons, small group tasks, discussion, reading, journaling, and the creation of classroom activities and lessons. Throughout the workshops, SIOP facilitators encourage collaboration and dialogue within and across school, grade-level, and content area teams of teachers so that they can suppor
