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Onsite Professional Learning: Getting Started With GPB
GPB Education offers customized, no-cost professional learning sessions and workshops at your request and convenience. Live sessions can be held either virtually or onsite at your location.
Are you interested in free professional learning support at your school or district? Request a session or workshop via the link below:
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The Educator's Guide to the GPB Galaxy
Grade Level: K-12
Join GPB’s education team for an exploratory overview of our comprehensive no-cost digital resources, including complete courses in 8th grade social studies and high school chemistry and physics, full standards-based lesson plans, interactive expansions of GPB’s state-wide virtual learning journeys, engaging game-based approaches to numeracy and financial literacy, and thousands of additional digital learning resources available through PBS LearningMedia.
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The Gifted Educator's Guide to the GPB Galaxy
Grade Level: K-12
Join GPB’s education outreach team for a hands-on overview of our comprehensive digital resources for supporting gifted education, including VR and AR expansions of GPB’s virtual learning journeys, exciting new game-based approaches to financial literacy and Georgia history, the timely Things Explained video series, and Live Explorations to inspiring learning environments throughout Georgia. Participants will also explore ways to meaningfully engage students with the thousands of digital resources available through their sponsored streaming accounts with PBS LearningMedia.
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The Middle Grade Educator's Guide to the GPB Galaxy
Grade Level: 6-8
Join GPB’s education team for an exploratory overview of our comprehensive no-cost digital resources, including complete courses in 8th grade social studies and physical sciences, full standards-based lesson plans, interactive expansions of GPB’s state-wide virtual learning journeys, engaging game-based approaches to numeracy and financial literacy, and thousands of additional digital learning resources available through PBS LearningMedia.
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It's Elementary, My Dear Educator: An Overview of GPB's K-5 Resources
Grade Level: K-5
With a focus on the thousands of educational resources hosted by PBS LearningMedia, participants will learn how to navigate and find engaging collections from PBS shows featuring videos, lesson plans, interactives, and instructional strategies. Exploratory topics include literacy, numeracy, SAEL, STEM, and social studies.
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Crash Course Into PBS LearningMedia
Grade Level: K-12
PBS LearningMedia provides a digital resource library and suite of productivity tools, with lesson plans and self-directed modules that can be used for differentiation. After setting up a free account, learn how to locate and explore engaging PBS content, organize it into folders, embed it into personalized storyboards and lesson builders, and integrate it into your instruction via your teacher dashboard and associated student accounts. Highlighted resources include the standards-aligned PBS distance learning collection, and grab-and-go interactive lesson plans for immediate use.
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Robust Content Resources: Bringing the Digital World into the Elementary Classroom
Grade Level: K-5
In this interactive session, participants will view digital content resources from PBS Learning Media that engage students in the classroom and support educators in the planning process. These resources include teacher support materials such as lesson plans, videos, and documents and are interactive to provide high-impact student learning. This session will include how PBS Learning Media Resources and GALILEO Resources can complement each other as media specialists collaborate with educators to integrate these tools into their classrooms.
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If You Build It, They Will Learn With PBS Lesson Builder
Grade Level: K-12
One of the most exciting features available to teachers via their free PBS LearningMedia accounts is the Lesson Builder tool, newly upgraded for the 2021-22 school year. Lesson Builder allows teachers to identify meaningful educational content then create a personalized, interactive engagement around the content that students can access for an in-class activity or homework assignment.
In this session, participants will be introduced to Lesson Builder and learn how to:
- Create lessons by combining media, text, and short quizzes.
- Share lessons with students using URLs or assignment codes that can be shared via communications or embedded into learning management tools.
- View individual student responses or a summary of results for the entire class.
- Share question responses in real-time for in-class discussions.
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Oh, the Humanities! Secondary Social Sciences and Literature Resources
Grade Level: 6-12
With thousands of resources from Ken Burns to WordPlay Shakespeare, participants will become familiar with navigating virtual field trips, video collections from their favorite shows, and engaging lesson plans as well as culminating activities and instructional activities designed to promote critical thinking and inquiry.
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Ready Reader One: Promoting Literacy Through GPB's Virtual and Augmented Reality Explorations
Grade Level: K-12
Join us on a virtual learning journey through our new VR / AR enhanced social studies and STEM explorations into the Civil Rights Movement, Slavery and Freedom, and the Forests of Georgia. Participants will become familiar with the active learning resources created and distributed by GPB Education while modeling ideas for how virtual and augmented reality can pair meaningful learning activities with appropriate assessment challenges, and enable students to enthusiastically engage in mastering knowledge and literacy skills that are relevant to real-world experiences.
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Bringing Virtual and Game-Based Learning to the Secondary Classroom
Grade Level: 6-12
Game-based learning is a tried-and-true educational approach, made more effective by the growing availability of interactive digital content. Participants will explore how virtual and game-based learning approaches can pair meaningful activities with appropriate assessment challenges, and enable students to enthusiastically engage in mastering knowledge and skills that are relevant to real-world experiences.
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GPB Education's Worst-Case Scenario Survival Guide for Librarians and Media Specialists
Grade Level: K-12
Danger! It lurks at every corner. Earthquake. Quicksand. Cyclone. Pandemic. As educators and parents power on to creatively engage, instruct, and inspire our children in the home, classroom, and online, how can we as librarians and media specialists use our superpowers to keep the love of learning alive? GPB Education is here to help with thousands of open, no-cost, standards-aligned resources from the Georgia Home Classroom and PBS LearningMedia. Tune in for a quick update on our digital learning survival tools, including virtual field trips, grab-and-go interactives, hands-on games and simulations, and comprehensive lesson plans, hosted by your favorite shows and characters from PBS and beyond.
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GPB Education Digital Resources Review for Media Specialists
Grade Level: K-12
To support the crucial role of media specialists and the transition of libraries into an "information commons," we offer workshops focusing on the curation of topical resources and the building of content for professional development presentations. The specific purpose of this session is to train the trainers so that media specialists can become experts on our platforms and lead sessions according to the needs of their school communities. Additionally, we introduce some of our favorite external resources, like Google Arts and Culture, which act as hosts of vast amounts of searchable content.
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You Can’t Be What You Can’t See: Expanding Student Horizons With GPB’s STEAM & CTAE Career Resources
Grade Level: 5-12
Join GPB in a hands-on exploration of our extensive STEAM and CTAE career resources, and practice innovative ways to educate and inspire your students about the many amazing opportunities available in the fields of science, technology, engineering, agriculture / art, and mathematics. Learn about job opportunities right here in our state through GPB's Fast Forward series, and continue expanding student horizons through PBS LearningMedia career spotlights. With thousands of free resources available from GPB Education, your students can be anything they see!
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Differentiation Strategies for Active Learning
Grade Level: K-12
Teachers are always looking for creative ways to use digital media in their unique classroom settings. Georgia Public Broadcasting's education team researches the latest and greatest free digital learning tools and strategies, and provides help, tips, and tricks for integrating videos, images, audio files, and more into your curricula. In this hands-on, interactive workshop, teachers will model several of our favorite differentiated teaching strategies and will walk away with engaging integration tools they can begin using immediately!
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Electrifying Student Engagement With Active Learning Resources and Strategies From GPB Education
Grade Level: K-12
The underlying goal of every educator is to inspire our students, encourage their natural love of learning, and equip them with knowledge and skills that will contribute to a meaningful adulthood. However, traditional modes of instruction can sometimes tend toward passive learning and fall short of these goals, regardless of our thoughtful intention and planning. Join GPB Education for an overview of our free active learning resources and strategies that emphasize student engagement in the learning process through hands-on, integrative, and collaborative educational experiences. We will explore three complex active learning approaches - interactive lecture, active review, and experiential learning - and highlight how to apply them around any instructional theme.