San Francisco Summer Institutes
July 23-27, 2012

Online Registration Available:

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• Daily parking at Golden Gate Presidio club will cost $6 per car
• Due to some construction around the Golden Gate Club, please be sure to download and read the attached guidelines for parking. Please note that there will be shuttles to and from Hotel Kabuki

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Course descriptions:

For Teachers:

Scaffolding Literacy Instruction for English Learners

• Increase expertise in scaffolding the teaching and learning of the rigorous knowledge and processes described in the Common Core English Language Arts and Literacy standards through exploration and analysis of exemplars that can be used in the classroom
• Increase understanding and skills in how to structure small group activities for optimal learning using QTEL's model of scaffolding
• Engage in pedagogical tasks that develop students' academic oracy, and develop understanding of its role in increasing the reading comprehension of English learners
• Gain skills for developing students' metalinguistic awareness of language use and metacognition during varied literacy activities

Scaffolding Mathematics for English Learners

• Develop expertise in scaffolding the teaching and learning of mathematics by exploring and analyzing classroom-tested exemplars
• Increase understanding and practical skill in structuring small group activities to maximize opportunities for student interaction and learning using QTEL's model of scaffolding
• Engage in pedagogical tasks that develop English learners' oral academic skills, as they apprentice using Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice to enable students to construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others with precision.
• Gain skills for developing students’ metalinguistic awareness of language use and metacognition during varied mathematical practices

Teaching ESL to English Learners at the Beginning Level

• Understand how to accelerate English learners' development of conceptual, academic, and linguistic competence
• Experience activities that present students with conversational situations that enhance their capacity to produce appropriate spoken and written text
• Develop understanding of how to reach students to engage in diverse types of listening: listening for gist, global listening, and listening for specific purposes
• Understand how to promote students' metalinguistic understanding of English; experience, analyze, and apply tasks that promote reading and writing with beginning ESL students

Spanish Institute: Desarrollo de Competencias Académicas en Español, led by Ms. Viviana Galdames, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile

• Understand the attitudes, knowledge, and dispositions that enable teachers to raise the academic performance in content areas for Spanish-speaking English learners
• Increase understanding and skills in how to use six types of scaffolding: modeling, bridging, schema building, contextualization, text representation, and metacognitive development in the development of students’ conceptual, linguistic, and academic competence in Spanish
• Increase their expertise in scaffolding Spanish disciplinary discourse through the exploration and analysis of classroom exemplars
• Gain the understanding and skills of developing students' metalinguistic awareness of language and will practice generative learning strategies in Spanish that could be transfered into students’ academic performance in English

For Instructional Leaders and Coaches

Quality Schools for English Learners: The Role of Leadership , led by Dr. Aida Walqui and Diana Lam

• Analyze domains involved in the design of successful EL programs: structures, resources, teaching and learning, and information tracking
• Understand the different types of English language learners, their academic needs and the types of programs available for their education
• Understand how to support teachers in their work to make classes with English language learners rigorous and accelerated
• Understand the conceptual, academic and linguistic needs of adolescent language minority students
• Understand the Principles of Quality Teaching for English Learners and the tools and processes that exemplify quality instruction
• Increase the observational skills necessary to recognize and promote quality instruction for adolescent English language learners
• Analyze problematic issues that tend to surface at school sites when trying to enact quality education for English language learners

The Role of Coaches

• Understand the Principles of Quality Teaching for English Learners and the tools and processes that exemplify quality instruction
• Develop expertise in recognizing the critical individual components of a lesson and in using classroom observation instruments
• Increase competency in a variety of coaching approaches that lead to constructive conversations and transformative teaching behaviors
• Analyze problematic classroom situations and model productive coaching behaviors

Special Course Offering:

Teaching Writing from a Systemic Functional Linguistics approach, led by Dr. Beverly Derewianka, University of Wollongong, Australia

• Building essential knowledge of the theoretical underpinnings of a functional approach to language in writing
• Developing resources that can be used in a wide variety of situations with English Learners as they apprentice writing diverse genres
• Understanding the practical applications of the functional model of language, particularly in terms of supporting students' academic writing development in the various disciplines.