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WestEd's Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) is a unique professional development program that helps teachers and teacher educators become better equipped to educate secondary students who are also learning English as a second language. It offers theoretical and practical strategies for effectively teaching the academic language, conceptual understandings, and skills that are critical to ensuring that English language learners are fully prepared to benefit from a successful education.
Using new research-based tools and processes developed by our staff, QTEL presents linguistically and culturally relevant theory and pedagogy in such a way that educators' learning experiences mirror that of their students. Quality Teaching for English Learners is based on an apprenticeship model of learning in which teachers and teacher educators are provided with experiences that enable them to gradually appropriate abilities necessary for effective teaching of English language learners in diverse teaching contexts.
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