PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES BOOK STUDY
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Enroll in a six-module course that you facilitate within your school’s professional learning community. With your colleagues, you will read each chapter of a selected book with a focus, discuss it with through provided structured activities, and develop applications to practice.
This virtual book study is hosted on an online course-management platform. Completing all tasks, enables individual teachers to receive two units of graduate course credit through our partnership with the University of San Diego.
PLC Book Studies are offered for Scaffolding the Academic Success of Adolescent English Language Learners: A Pedagogy of Promise (Walqui and VanLier, 2010) and English Language Learner sand the New Standards: Developing Language, Content Knowledge, and Analytical Practices in the Classroom (Heritage, Walqui, Linquanti, 2015).
COST
Credit
Without Credit
With Credit
Individual Enrollment
$300
$500
Subject Area Teams
$250 per Participant
$450 per Participant
School-Wide Model
$200 per Participant
$400 per Participant
Scaffolding the Academic Success of Adolescent English Language Learners: A Pedagogy of Promise
Scaffolding the Academic Success of Adolescent English Language Learners offers a future-oriented pedagogy, one that looks ahead to what students can become and that builds on the knowledge, beliefs, and values all students bring to school (Walqui & van Lier, 2010).
This six-module professional learning course invites school-based teams to deepen their understanding of how to design instruction that simultaneously develops disciplinary knowledge, analytical practices, and academic language, especially for English Learners.
Together with your colleagues, you’ll explore:
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How sociocultural theory informs a “pedagogy of promise” for multilingual learners
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How scaffolding fosters learner agency, autonomy, and engagement
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How language and content development are intertwined in academic success
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What high-leverage principles define quality teaching for English Learners
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How task structures and lesson design shape student learning
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How to plan instruction using the Three Moments Lesson Architecture
English Language Learner sand the New Standards: Developing Language, Content Knowledge, and Analytical Practices in the Classroom
English Language Learners and the New Standards: Developing Language, Content, Knowledge, and Analytical Practices in the Classroom advanced an ambitious vision for learning. School-based teams can collaborate to learn:
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How demographic shifts are related to changing disciplinary demands
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How teacher expertise needs to change to adapt to future needs
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How theories of language shape practice and learning
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How formative assessment as an ongoing process allows contingency
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The role that summative assessment plays in shaping students’ learning
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The role that policy plays in shaping programs and practices.
