Quality Teaching for Secondary English Learners: Summer Institute
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TQI is pleased to announce a weeklong, residential Summer Institute on Quality Teaching for English Learners. The six-day institute will take place July 11-16, 2004 on the Asilomar Conference Grounds, a retreat/conference center nestled along the Monterey Peninsula shoreline in Pacific Grove, California. Participation will be by application only.
Who Should Attend
Goals of the Institute
The institute focuses on increasing the capacity of teachers, teacher educators, and professional developers to teach rigorous academic language and disciplinary content to English learners at the secondary level. The institute provides participants with theoretical background and consonant strategies for effectively teaching academic language in English to English learners.
Format of the Institute
The summer institute is a six-day residential program that combines intensive seminar, lecture, and small-group work at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA.
What You Learn
The Institute is designed to develop participants’ understandings of how new, research-based practices enable rigorous linguistic and academic learning for English learners. By linking theory and practice, the Institute will enable participants to:
- Develop knowledge of three levels of support — from curricular planning to academic and linguistic procedures used in particular activities to procedures used in moment-to-moment interaction.
- Increase understanding and skills in how to use scaffolding, which includes modeling, bridging, schema building, contextualization, text re-presentation, and metacognitive development.
- Increase understanding of specific subject matter interactions. Participants will explore and analyze exemplars of classroom practices in secondary language arts, social studies, and science.
Aída Walqui, director of the Teacher Professional Development Program at WestEd, and the research and professional development staff of the Teacher Quality Initiative (TQI) lead the summer institute and provide hands-on support for institute participants.
What Resources Support Your Learning
Research-based multimedia modules developed by TQI staff, which embody linguistically and culturally relevant theory and pedagogy in key disciplinary areas, will be used to help increase the capacity of educators to teach rigorous academic language and content to English learners at the secondary level.
What the Research Says
Research indicates that teachers struggle in implementing meaningful instruction that advances secondary English learners’ content area literacy in English (National Center for Education Statistics, 2002; Ruiz-de-Velasco & Fix, 2000). This gap calls for professional development opportunities that allow teachers to reframe and enrich their pedagogical content knowledge so as to more successfully address the needs of their students.
Institute Dates and Deadlines
The Institute will take place July 11-16, 2004. The application deadline is April 30, 2004. (Attendance on all days of the Institute is required.)
What Is the Cost
The cost for the six-day institute, including all meals and lodging is $3,600 for a single-occupancy room, $3,200 for a double-occupancy room, and $2,800 for a triple-occupancy room.
Registration is limited to teams of applicants. For more information contact Sherell Holcomb at 415.615.3314 or sholcom@wested.org