School of Education
Southern Oregon Teachers for
English Language Development
(SOTELD) Grant
The SOTELD Project was funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) as part of a National Professional Development Program. The program provides professional development activities intended to improve instruction for students who are English Language Learners (ELL) and assists education personnel working with such children to meet high professional standards.
OBJECTIVES
The SOTELD Project is designed to:
- Increase the pool of highly qualified bilingual and secondary teachers prepared to serve ELL students.
- Increase the skills of secondary teachers already serving ELL students in the high-need areas of Special Education, Mathematics, Science, English Language Arts, and English anguage Development.
BENEFITS
-- For pre-service teachers, the SOTELD Grant will fund a significant portion of tuition and fees for the MAT (1 or 2-year program) or Special Education programs, and will fund complete tuition for the ESOL/Bilingual Endorsement Program.
--For inservice secondary teachers, bilingual teachers, and Master of Arts or Science in Education (MA or MS) candidates, the SOTELD Grant will fund complete tuition for the ESOLBilingual Endorsement Program.
--All grant recipients will receive textbook stipends.
ELIGIBILITY
--All applicants must demonstrate a high level of motivation to serve English Language Learners
--Applicants who are bilingual, are planning to teach or are teaching in high-need secondary content areas, including those who already have been admitted to the ESOL/Bilingual Endorsement Program are strongly encouraged to apply.
INSTRUCTIONS
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Inservice Application |
Preservice Application |
Please download and print the appropriate application. Mail completed application packets, on or before Monday May 19, 2008 to:
Southern Oregon University-School of Education
1250 Siskiyou Blvd
Ashland, OR 97520
ATTEN: SOTELD Grant Program
For more information, please contact Shantrin Lininger, Grant Coordinator at 552.6919 or liningers@sou.edu
