Quality Teaching for English Learners Institute
Sponsor: WestEd's Quality Teaching for English Learners project
Start Date: 07/13/2009
End Date: 07/17/2009
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, particularly in social studies, language arts, and ESL content classrooms.
The Institute is for designed for • Secondary teachers who work with English learners, and • Teacher educators and professional developers who work with preservice and inservice secondary teachers.
URL: http://www.wested.org/cs/tqip/print/docs/qt/home.htm
City: San Francisco
State: California
Contact Person: Steven Weiss
Contact Phone: 415.615.3170
Contact Email: sweiss2@wested.org