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  For Immediate Release Ballard & Tighe Offers Professional Development Courses Online to Teachers of English Language Learners — Self-paced, accredited online courses enhance educators’ skills and progress — BREA, CA – (February 9, 2004) – Ballard & Tighe has launched a new web
site — Ballard & Tighe has a distinguished history of offering teachers effective training and precise strategies to enable them to maximize student learning. Building on this history, the company has developed a series of online courses for English Language Development, Reading, Literacy, and SDAIE (Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English). These courses emphasize strategies and techniques to increase the teacher’s ability to educate a growing population of English learners. All courses are fully accredited through Chapman University in California. Successful completion of each course allows course participants to earn either one or three units of semester academic credit, which also may be useful for salary advancement and credential renewal. “Teachers will find that our course content is outstanding and that they can immediately begin to integrate what they are learning in the courses into their curricular practices. The instruction will have a direct and immediate impact on their students’ education,” said Dr. Roberta Stathis, president of Ballard & Tighe. Courses are self-paced — participants can work entirely at their own pace, according to their own schedules. Instructors are highly qualified, experienced educators and subject matter experts. Each instructor is skilled at communicating concepts in a user-friendly way, offering valuable feedback and support throughout the course. “Busy educators may not be aware that, unlike traditional institutions, we don’t make participants wait until the end of the semester to receive their grades. Participants in our courses receive a letter of completion and their grades within one week of completing a course. This ensures that they will have no problems meeting their individual district or state deadlines for professional development units. Thus, educators taking Ballard & Tighe’s courses can directly reap the benefits of their self-paced work,” added Dr. Stathis. Courses cover several topics, including The Fundamentals of Teaching English Language Development, Putting SDAIE Theory into Practice and Introducing ELD Techniques to Mainstream Teachers. For more information or to enroll online, visit: www.opd.ballard-tighe.com About Ballard & Tighe—Dedicated to making a difference
in education, Ballard & Tighe publishes a highly regarded set of products
that extend from assessing, identifying, and instructing students with limited
English proficiency to transitioning these students into mainstream classrooms.
The company was founded in 1976 and has provided high quality testing,
instructional and professional training products and services to more than 2,200
state, regional, and local school systems in more than 30 states and
internationally.
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