| 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. |
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