School Application

1-Tell us what characteristics of Loma Linda University are particularly attractive and meaningful to you and why you have chosen to apply for advanced education. (4000 characters max)

2-Discuss how your spiritual origins, development, and experience have influenced and been integrated into your daily life. (4000 characters max)

3-Tell us the desirable qualities that you see in yourself that you believe would aid us in considering your application. (4000 characters max)

4-LLU believes deeply in integrating spiritual values into the educational experience. As a result, religion courses and chapel attendance are part of the curriculum. Tell us why you believe such a faith-based education would be of special benefit to you. (4000 characters max)

5-As a Seventh-day Adventist institution, Loma Linda University has lifestyle expectations which include abstinence from alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs/substances in all forms while enrolled. If you are accepted to Loma Linda University, are you willing to abide by the lifestyle policies of the University ( http://www.llu.edu/central/apply/lifestyle.page ) while enrolled? (4000 characters max)

 

Assignment1: Using SEI Strategies in a SIOP Lesson Plan

Create a SIOP lesson plan in a content area of your choice for a group of ELLs at a grade and English language proficiency (ELP) level that you specify.

Use the “SIOP Lesson Plan Template,” located in the Student Success Center.

Identify and select the ELP Standards from your state.

Create a content objective and a language objective using the English Language Arts Standards from your state.

Consider applicable language acquisition stages of development in your lesson planning.

Include a 500-750 word rationale that includes an explanation regarding how the following aspects of SIOP were accounted for within the design of your lesson:

1. Lesson Preparation

2. Building Background

3. Comprehensible Input

4. Strategies

5. Interaction

6. Practice and Application

7. Lesson Delivery

8. Review and Assessment

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using the documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

 

Assignment 2: Clinical Field Experience B: ELL Classroom Observation Using SIOP – Part II

Details:

Allocate at least 5 hours in the field to support this field experience.

Spend time observing lessons in your field experience classroom. Focus your observation on Strategies, Interactions, and Practice and Application.

Use any remaining field experience hours to assist the mentor teacher in providing instruction and support to the class.

Assess at least one lesson using the SIOP checklist from Appendix A in the textbook.