QTEL SUMMER INSTITUTES 

 

Every summer QTEL holds professional development institutes for educators focused on the development of educator expertise to engage English Learners and all other students in deep, generative learning. During our summer institutes, participants experience and understand powerful models of learning which they are able to turn into school practices that cultivate global competencies and academic development for English Learners and all other students. Register now for our sessions in O‘ahu, Hawai‘i (June 9–13) or Santa Cruz, CA (July 21–25).

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VIRTUAL PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COURSES 

 

QTEL offers virtual professional learning opportunities, designed to help educators design rigorous learning experiences for English Learners while supporting their language and disciplinary development. 

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Our virtual courses consist of a four-module learning series that focuses on designing academically rigorous learning experiences for English Learners.

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• A Pedagogy of Promise for English Learners Course, Elementary

• A Pedagogy of Promise for English Learners Course, Secondary

• Accelerating Writing Development for English Learners, Grades 3–5 and 6–12

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PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES BOOK STUDY 

 

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).

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More Information here.