Provide sustained, powerful professional development with professional learning communities for QTEL implementation¶
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Description¶
Walqui cautions that schools and districts must give teachers time to explore and experiment with the recommended practices, preferably through sustained professional development and professional learning communities. She argues such learning must weave theory and pedagogical practice together so teachers know how to deliver instruction purposefully. A key implementation lesson is that although teachers can readily add productive activities after training, more than a few hours of professional development are needed to make deep and coherent changes to long-held instructional beliefs and practices.
Design Implications¶
Context¶
Requirements¶
- Professional development must weave theory and pedagogical practice together
Constraints¶
- More than just a few hours of professional development are needed for deep and coherent changes to long-held beliefs and practices
Target Learners¶
- secondary teachers of English language learners
Target Learning Goals¶
- teachers' instructional beliefs and practices for teaching rigorous content to ELLs
Related Strategies¶
- Design coaching programs as a systemic collective enterprise with shared vision, recruited and developed coaches, and continuous evaluation
- Layered educator support: coaching, curated resources, low-lift entry points, and community engagement
- Support first-year adopters of a comprehensive curriculum with quick-start overviews, editable materials, and curated course plans
- Design educator preparation around pedagogical alignment, tightly linked clinical experiences, and a developmental approach to educator learning
- Preparing preservice teachers to implement AI-powered personalized learning in special education through professional development in technical and pedagogical expertise
Examples¶
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Key Sources¶
- Helping English Learners Rise to the Challenge of Complex Texts. (2014). WestEd R&D Alert, Vol. 14, No. 3. http://ell.stanford.edu/teaching_resources/ela
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Provide sustained, powerful professional development with professional learning communities for QTEL implementation |
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Walqui cautions that schools and districts must give teachers time to explore and experiment with the recommended practices, preferably through sustained professional development and professional learning communities. |
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