QTEL-Quality Teaching for English Language Learners

Quality Teaching English Language Learners (WestEd Teacher Professional Development)

In our community, being a language learner is an asset, not a deficit. 

English language learners .  .  .  

• Are perceived and treated as capable, legitimate participants

• Engage in intellectually demanding interactions that have been deliberately crafted and scaffolded

• Engage in high challenge, high support tasks that provide them with multiple points of entry into the academic     community.

Several teachers were trained this summer (2010) in the use of QTEL strategies, many of which are attached.