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Experienced staff from CAL Services can work with you to develop solutions for making your American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funding go further to benefit the achievement of ELLs.
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CAL is offering Institutes in 2010 featuring What's Different About Teaching Reading to Students Learning English?

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Professional Development

CAL conducts preservice and inservice professional development for teachers of English as a second language or foreign languages in a wide range of settings, including Grades preK–12, college and university, adult education, and the workplace. CAL also provides services for teachers who have second language learners in their classrooms.

Topics include methods, techniques, and materials for language instruction; administration of proficiency tests and informal approaches to assessment; content-based ESL; sheltered content instruction; two-way immersion education; standards-based instruction and assessment; cultural orientation for immigrants and refugees; and uses of technology for language instruction.

CAL will work with you to customize professional development to meet the unique needs of your school, district, or staff. CAL's dedicated staff draw on years of experience as researchers and scholars and in the classroom as teachers, coaches, and curriculum developers.

CAL's professional development workshops and training of trainers enable teachers to work with language learners by providing the latest in ESL and FL methods, techniques, and materials tailored to your specific circumstances. Trainers use curricula and research-based materials developed by CAL to help educators and paraprofessionals work effectively with language learners in their classrooms and agencies.

Institutes on Teaching Reading to
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CAL is offering additional Institutes in 2010 featuring What's Different About Teaching Reading to Students Learning English?

Training of Trainers Institutes
January 26 – 28, 2010
May 24 – 26, 2010

Direct Strategies Institutes
June 22 – 24, 2010
July 20 – 22, 2010

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Learn more about CAL's customized professional development services:

We invite you to review our services outlined within this section and contact us to discuss your interests. As a nonprofit organization, CAL makes every effort to provide cost-effective and high-quality services and materials that can be tailored to meet your unique requirements.

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