Texas District Targets Teachers for ELL Training
Training Is Designed to Help Regular Educators
Not a school day goes by that Laurie Hahn Ganser doesn't use something she's learned in a professional-development program designed to help regular classroom teachers reach English-language learners.
The English teacher at Lanier High School has received extensive training and coaching from Quality Teaching for English Learners, or QTEL , during the three years the Austin district has implemented the program. Ms. Ganser is poised to become a coach herself as part of the 85,000-student district's efforts to sustain the training without the consultants it hired to launch it here.
Enough administrators and teachers at Lanier High have bought in to the program and carried out its strategies that district officials credit it for some positive academic outcomes for...
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