Quality Teaching for English Learners Institute: Instructional Leadership, Literacy, Math
Sponsor: WestEd's Quality Teaching for English Learners project
Start Date: 07/19/2010
End Date: 07/23/2010
Description: This five-day institute, organized by WestEd's Aida Walqui, presents a research-based model of professional development, Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL). By combining intensive seminar, lecture, and small-group work at WestEd, participants will learn theory-based strategies for effectively teaching academic language to English learners.
This workshop is for:
- Secondary teachers who have English learners in their classes and whose content area is Mathematics, Language Arts, or ESL.
- Teacher educators and professional developers who work with preservice and inservice secondary teachers with specific disciplinary areas
- Literacy or disciplinary coaches and other secondary subject matter teacher support personnel
- School site and district leaders who design or implement instructional programs for secondary English learners.
URL: http://www.wested.org/pub/docs/qt/institute_2010.htm
City: San Francisco
State: California
Contact Person: Steven Weiss
Contact Phone: 415.615.3170
Contact Email: sweiss2@wested.org