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Riverside Unified School District
San Bernardino City Unified School District
San Diego Unified School District
A three-year QTEL professional development program is under way in 26 middle schools in three Southern California districts with a high concentration of English language learners — the Riverside, San Bernardino City, and San Diego school districts. The implementation of QTEL tools and approaches in the schools is being studied as part of a federally funded, randomized study. Twenty-six other middle schools in these districts are serving as matched control schools, conducting "business as usual."
The QTEL professional development being studied includes whole school summer institutes, collaborative learning communities for English as a second language and English language arts teachers, and classroom coaching for a subset of ESL and ELA teachers in each treatment school.
The study addresses the following major questions:
- What is QTEL's impact on the pedagogical content knowledge and classroom practices of participating teachers?
- How does QTEL affect student-teacher interaction in the classroom and how do these impacts vary between English language learners and non-English language learners?
- What is QTEL's impact on student performance on state-referenced tests in a variety of subjects? How do these impacts vary between English language learners and non-English language learners?
- What is QTEL's impact on other student outcomes including attendance, grades, and grade promotion?
Professional development began in 2007 and concludes in 2010. Analysis of study data will be reported in December 2010.
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