2026 QTEL INSTITUTES
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WRITING FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS IN GRADES 6–12
Audience: English Language Arts and Secondary Literacy teachers in grades 6–12 that want to engage English Learners in rigorous content while developing their writing proficiency.
Goal:
To develop teacher expertise to design and facilitate writing instruction that builds disciplinary literacy and enhances students’ ability to express their ideas orally and in writing.
You will learn:
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To understand the theory that undergirds high challenge, high support instruction that maximizes language and literacy development
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To design and facilitate quality interactional opportunities for students to listen, speak, and read in ways that lead to writing
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How genre-based instruction through the Teaching and Learning Cycle can support students to become proficient writers
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To gather and act on evidence of where students are in their oral and written language development