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Onsite Professional Learning: Visual and Performing Arts
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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GPB Goes to Hollywood: Movie-Making 101 for the Classroom
Grade Level: 6-12
Have you ever been inspired to shoot your own movie? Let GPB Education help you get started! From story development to post-production work, we’ll build a foundation for teaching movie-making in the classroom using free resources from GPB and PBS LearningMedia. Covering the film-making process from start to finish, exploring STEAM career connections, engaging in instructional strategies, and learning insider tips -‒ participants will be talking b-roll and cinematography in no time!
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Visual Literacy and Inquiry Workshop
Grade Level: 4-12
Join Georgia Public Broadcasting for an exploration of PBS LearningMedia free digital content with a focus on visual literacy and inquiry through art education. In this hands-on, interactive workshop, teachers will model several of our favorite creative teaching strategies collection and will walk away with engaging integration tools they can begin using immediately!
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Art Instruction for the 21st Century
Grade Level: 6-12
Join GPB’s education outreach team for an exploratory overview of our comprehensive visual arts content including online courses, career resources, lesson plans, plus engaging videos and strategies for implementation available to all Georgia students and teachers through our partnership PBS LearningMedia.
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Down to a Fine Art: Creative Resources for Visual and Performing Arts Integration
Grade Level: K-12
Arts integration in the curriculum provides students with rich opportunities to create new meaning and learn in ways that speak to their own unique cultural, emotional, and intellectual needs. Join GPB Education as we explore the thousands of inspiring fine arts resources available free to teachers and students via PBS LearningMedia and model hands-on instructional approaches for integrating fine arts creativity into the core content areas.
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Don't Miss a Beat: Musically Inclined Resources for Cross-Curricular Connections
Grade Level: K-12
Join GPB education for an upbeat exploration of our musically inclined resources, including engaging videos, comprehensive lesson plans, interactive games, music simulations, and more! In this jam session, we'll pair our favorite music education content with active learning strategies to strike a chord with students and make music across the curricula.
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GPB Goes to Austin City Limits: Free Music Education Resources From the Live Music Capital of the World
Grade Level: 6-12
Join GPB Education for a trip to Austin City Limits, the longest-running music series in television history, and the source of a fabulous free music education collection hosted by PBS LearningMedia. Participants will examine the relationship between music and literary skills via lyric writing with Willie Nelson; analyze the form and meter of songs with Billie Eilish; explore different voices (speaking, singing, whispering, calling) with Rosalía; investigate repetition and contrast in songs with August Greene; identify and compare tempo and dynamics in musical performances with The Raconteurs; and more! Dive into this engaging free PBS resource from the Live Music Capital of the World, and model teaching strategies that complement the multi-grade, grab-and-go lesson plans available for immediate use in your own learning environments.
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Energizing Music Education in the Sound Field With Georgia Public Broadcasting
Grade Level: 6-12
Join GPB Education for a deep dive into Sound Field, a free PBS music education series for middle and high school students that explores the theory, history, culture, and production behind our favorite songs and genres. Hosted by accomplished musicians and music teachers, Sound Field explores pop, classical, folk, rap, jazz, country, funk, trap, indigenous music, electronic music, and more - with comprehensive educator resources including background reading, teaching tips, vocabulary, listening guides, and activities. Participants will use Sound Field to help teach the Georgia Standards of Excellence for Music via inquiry and project-based learning approaches. What do billboard hit songs have in common? What is the Spotify Sound? Why is Brandy called the vocal bible? Why don’t classical musicians improvise? Join us for a hands-on exploration of the clear and comprehensive teacher resources around these intriguing questions and more via GPB Education and PBS Sound Field.
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Shakespeare Resources for Today, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Grade Level: 6-12
For hundreds of years, students and adults alike have struggled to read Shakespeare’s plays. That’s in large part because he wrote his plays to be seen and heard, not read. Reading Shakespeare is like reading a movie script — something that is written for actors so they can then perform for our entertainment. But GPB Education also sponsors hundreds of resources that help Shakespeare reach and inspire us. Join GPB as we get to know the bard even better and discover how his stories can remain culturally relevant into the 21st century.
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To Be or Not To Be Relevant: That is the Question
Grade Level: 6-12
“A bard is the heart and soul of the people; he is their life in song, and the lamp which guides their steps along the paths of destiny. ... the golden cord which unites the manifold ages, binding all that is past with all that is yet to come.”
William Shakespeare has been dubbed The Bard for centuries because he is widely believed to be one of the greatest English language poets who ever lived. But four hundred years after he wrote, the world we all live in presents us with a larger and more complex stage. Can Shakespeare still speak for (and to) all of us? Can his songs still bind “all that is past with all that is yet to come”? In short: Is Shakespeare still relevant today? Join Georgia Public Broadcasting and WordPlay Shakespeare for an exploration of Shakespeare’s enduring legacy, in a participatory panel session about whether his words and stories — written at one moment in time and space — can have a lasting impact on the collective human experience of the 21st century.
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There Is Music in the Air With GPB Digital Resources
Grade Level: K-12
Do you ever walk around hearing music in the air? Join GPB to get your feet tapping and your ears ringing with excitement. Participants will explore the incredible GPB resources that bring the joy of music to your students. The presentation will showcase a wide range of musical genres and cultures that are sure to engage your students. Come join us and discover the magic of music education with "There is Music in the Air."