Teacher development appropriate to support ELLs

This paper outlines strategies to prepare teachers to better meet the needs of English language learners, considering more aggressive and creative capacity-building initiatives that strengthen and integrate the disciplinary teaching strategies with literacy and language development strategies. The authors discuss the value and implications of new partnerships, structures for collaboration, and time dedicated to engaging experts from different fields in the design and delivery of teacher preparation and professional development. There is also a short video in which Dr. Santos discusses how new approaches to teacher development are needed to help ELs and their teachers meet the demands in content and language learning.