Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) professional development offers research-informed, practical approaches for teaching the conceptual understanding, academic practices, and language that are critical to ensuring success for English Learners. Educators nationwide benefit from our institutes and customized, sustained work with districts and schools.
How We Help
Threading research and practice, QTEL services are built upon five pedagogical principles: sustain academic rigor, hold high expectations, engage students in quality interactions, sustain a language focus, and develop quality curricula. Our experts share these principles through coherent and comprehensive professional learning for educators.
Educator Learning
QTEL offers educators a variety of opportunities to develop capacity through intensive institutes, one-on-one or collaborative coaching, and professional development certification.
Materials Development
QTEL works with schools and districts to develop academically rigorous instructional materials for English learners, providing educators with standards-aligned units and lessons that increase student engagement and academic success.
English Learner Program Review
QTEL provides partners with comprehensive reviews of English learner programs that feature specific, data-driven recommendations and suggestions for program advancement.
Please visit our website to learn more about QTEL resources, services, and latest developments.
Service Delivery
- Online and onsite
Who Will Benefit
- Teachers
- Coaches
- School Administrators
- District Administrators
QTEL challenges teachers to think about what constitutes academic rigor, how to structure lessons and tasks that engage students in quality interactions, and how to provide generative support for all students.
— Robert Thompson
Curriculum Specialist, Fort Worth (TX) Independent School District
Featured Experts
Annette Gregg
Connecting Research With Practice
Our model is based on sociocultural and sociolinguistic theories of learning and the central role of language in the learning process. Drawing from sociolinguistic research on effective practices with English learners, including studies in second-language acquisition, oral and written literacies development, systemic functional linguistics, and theories of accelerated English language acquisition, QTEL builds the capacity of educators to develop students’ abilities to read, discuss, and write academic texts in rigorous content area courses. Because of this emphasis on a pedagogy based on sociocultural theories of learning, teachers find the QTEL approach classroom-friendly and pragmatic as they experience a compelling way to work with students. Read more about our theoretical foundations and our research.
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