Quality Teaching for English Learners: High Challenge and High Support

Presenters

Aida Walqui (Primary)

Director, Teacher Professional Development Program
WestEd

Description

This webinar will provide an overview of the theoretical and practical basis of a pedagogy oriented to the development of English learners’ conceptual, academic, and linguistic development. Based on sociocultural theory, sociolinguistics, and cognitive psychology, the Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) program promotes the deliberate design and enactment of carefully scaffolded lessons that develop students’ academic potential in rigorous ways. Aída Walqui, Director of the Teacher Professional Development Program at WestEd, will present the principles that sustain QTEL work and anchor them in specific examples of classroom activity. QTEL has undergone field studies and is currently in its second year of a comprehensive three-year true randomized trial study sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences.

NCLB Accountability Requirements for English Learners

Understanding How to Navigate the Map of Standards for English Learners (Introductory)

Understanding How to Use the Essential ELD Standards for Teaching and Assessment (Intermediate)

English Learners and the Language Arts

English Learners and the Language Arts (Follow-up Presentation)

Evaluating English Learner (EL) Services & Results for Accountability & Instructional Improvement, Part 1

Evaluating English Learner Services & Results for Accountability & Instructional Improvement, Part 2

Teaching Science: How to Really Give Universal Access to English Learners

District & School-Based Professional Development Approaches for Content Area Literacy Improvement

Double the Work: Challenges and Solutions to Acquiring Language and Academic Literacy for Adolescent ELLs (Research from CREATE)

Findings from the National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth (Research from CREATE)

Mentoring New Teachers Through Collaborative Coaching

Professional Collaboration and Data Analysis: One High School's Journey

Building Oral Language into the Basal (Research from CREATE)

Preparing Leaders of Mathematics Professional Development

Using Formative Assessments to Accelerate the Academic Achievement of English Learners

RTI Process Steps: A Small Elementary School's Approach to Implementation

RTI in a Secondary School Setting: Riverbank High School Story

English Learners and the Language Arts

Taking Center Stage—Act II : Building Effective Programs for English Learners in the Middle Grades

English Learner Literacy Development through Formative Assessment of Oral Language

Making Standards-based Lessons Understandable for English Learners: The SIOP Model (Encore Presentation)

Doing What Works: Teaching Elementary-School English Learners

Building Oral Language into Content Area Instruction (Research from CREATE)

What the Research Does—and Does Not—Say About Teaching English Language Learners

English Learners in Secondary Mathematics: Rigor and Excellence

Closing the Learning Gap: Steps That Work

Signal Hill Elementary School: A Road to Results

Cesar E. Chavez High School: High Expectations, Empowerment, and Excellence

Recommendations for Addressing the Needs of English Language Learners: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

English Learners and the Language Arts (Encore Presentation)

Making Mathematics Accessible for English Learners