Quality Teaching for English Learners

Building the Base Institutes

Literacy
Mathematics
Beginning ESL
Science
Social Studies

Advanced Institute

English Language Arts

Additional Offering

Instructional Leadership

Brochure (pdf)

Registration Form (pdf)

Who Should Attend

Secondary teachers who have English learners in their classes and whose content area is Mathematics, Science, Language Arts, ESL, or Social Studies
Teacher educators and professional developers who work with preservice and inservice secondary teachers with specific disciplinary areas
Literacy or disciplinary coaches and other secondary subject matter teacher support personnel
School site and district leaders who design or implement instructional programs for secondary English learners.

Goals of the Institutes

All QTEL institutes focus on increasing the expertise of

teachers to teach rigorous disciplinary content and academic uses of language, and
teacher educators, professional developers, and school site and district administrators to support teachers in this area.

The Building the Base Institutes provide educators with a firm foundation of theoretical understanding and corresponding strategies for effectively teaching academic language to English learners within their discipline-specific context

QTEL's Beginning ESL Institute develops participants' theoretical understanding and provides them with a wealth of meaningful activities that promote communicative competence in English for secondary beginning English learners.

The Instructional Leadership institute focuses on developing the capacity of instructional leaders to understand and promote quality teaching for English learners at the secondary level.

Completion of a previous Building the Base Institute is required to register for the English Language Arts advanced institute. This advanced institute will be offered depending on demand.

Format of the Institutes

The summer institutes are five-day programs that combine intensive seminar, lecture, and small-group work. These institutes will take place at the Golden Gate Club within the Presidio of San Francisco. For more information, please visit the Golden Gate Club website.

What is the Cost

A five-day institute costs $1700 per person. Teams of 5 or more will cost $1500 per participant. Space is limited.

Registration Information

Register Online Now or send a completed Registration form (PDF) and payment to:

WestEd
Attn: Steven Weiss
730 Harrison St.
San Francisco, CA 94107

Accommodations

We have contracted the following two hotels in the Japantown area of San Francisco.

Note: These group rates will be held only until midnight of June 12th, 2009. After that, the rooms will be released to the public. They will probably sell out quickly and certainly will be more expensive!

Hotel Kabuki
General Information: http://www.jdvhotels.com/kabuki/
Room Rate: $159 per night
Online Registration:
http://reservations.ihotelier.com/crs/g_reservation.cfm?groupID=281568&hotelID=13098
Phone Registration: 1.800.533.4567, Reference: Quality Teaching for English Learners

Hotel Tomo
General Information: http://www.jdvhotels.com/tomo/
Room Rate: $174 per night
Online Registration:
http://reservations.ihotelier.com/crs/g_reservation.cfm?groupID=281548&hotelID=13099
Phone Registration: 1.888.822.8666, Reference: Quality Teaching for English Learners

Please be advised that you should book your accommodations as early as possible, as we are able to hold only a limited number of rooms at these two hotels. We will provide daily shuttle service to and from these hotels to the Golden Gate Club in The Presidio.

Questions?

Contact Steven Weiss, WestEd, 415-615-3170, sweiss2@wested.org.