Onsite Professional Learning: CTAE

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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  • Get to Work! Exploring CTAE Resources From GPB and PBS

    Grade Level: 4-12

    Take a virtual field trip to a high-tech dairy farm, explore one of Toyota's largest manufacturing facilities, and see what it's like to work on one of the greatest aircraft carriers ever built! Looking for resources that promote career and technical skills for the real world? Combining GPB's Fast Forward STEAM series with PBS LearningMedia's vast network of educational partnerships, let us take you inside some of the most exciting companies throughout Georgia and beyond, while learning how to apply job-related skills to the classroom through virtual experiences and a host of engaging lessons.

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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, 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 Quest Career Spotlights. With thousands of free resources available from GPB Education, your students can be anything they see!

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  • Building a 21st Century Learning Framework for STEM and CTAE

    Grade Level: 6-12

    STEM is more than Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. STEM asks students to consider deep, real-world questions and collaborate with others to arrive at meaningful conclusions. Learning through interdisciplinary units of study challenges students and helps them develop the relevant skills for evolving and expanding careers. Join GPB Education as we explore our digital resources and instructional strategies that support STEM education and the P21 framework. Participants will come away with an expanded digital toolbox for better illustrating the knowledge their students need to thrive in the workplace and as citizens.

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  • The FACS Educator’s Guide to the GPB Galaxy

    Grade Level: 6-12

    Join GPB Education for an exploratory overview of our open educational resources around Family and Consumer Sciences, including more than 30 collections on fashion, nutrition, and culinary arts, engaging game-based learning approaches to financial literacy and employability, interactive virtual learning journeys into key agricultural and forestry products, and thousands more resources available at no cost through PBS LearningMedia.

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  • Igniting Passions for Data and Computer Science

    Grade Level: 6-12

    Let's take the boredom out of "running the numbers." Utilizing partnerships with some of the biggest names in data analytics, GPB offers participants lessons, activities, and scenario-based career models to excite student passions for understanding and recognizing patterns in the challenges they face, as well as making predictions and solving real-world problems.

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  • GPB's Digital Integration Studio for Business and Technology Instruction

    Grade Level: 6-12

    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, whole lesson plans, assessments, and more into your curricula. In this hands-on, interactive session, teachers will model several of our favorite teaching strategies around GPB's educationally relevant business and technology content. Participants will walk away with engaging integration tools they can begin using immediately in their own classrooms!

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  • Grow Your Future: Explore Forestry and Boost Employability with GPB's Make That Paper Game!

    Grade Level: 6-12

    Embark on a journey with Georgia Public Broadcasting through an engaging and interactive exploration of "Make That Paper!" – our online career-readiness game designed to empower high school students. Immerse yourself in the world of forestry as you hone essential employability skills. Navigate diverse management pathways, make strategic personnel decisions, and tackle industry-related challenges. Experience the thrill of making sound business decisions to sustainably and efficiently manage our forest, ultimately turning trees into a source of financial success. Join us in cultivating a learning environment where students not only discover the intricacies of the forestry industry but also develop vital skills for future employment.

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  • Into the Woods With GPB’s Georgia Forests Virtual Learning Journey

    Grade Level: 6-12

    Did you know that Georgia is the #1 state in the nation for forest industries, supporting more than 140K jobs? Take your middle and high school students on an interactive journey through the working forests of Georgia to learn about wood products, resource management and sustainability practices, career opportunities, and employability skills. Key concepts are covered through text, images, videos, writing prompts, STEAM challenges, 360º tours, and interactive elements. It’s time for them to take a look at a Georgia career path often traveled - into the woods!

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  • Into the Woods: Strengthening Scientific Understanding Through Interactive Literacy With Georgia Forests Virtual Learning Journeys

    Grade Level: 3-12

    Take your students on a virtual journey through the working forests of Georgia to learn about forest ecosystems, food webs and life cycles, as well as forestry management processes, employability skills, and career opportunities. Key concepts are covered through writing prompts, STEAM challenges, and interactive elements that can help integrate active learning strategies, real-world literacy, critical thinking practices, and environmental advocacy into your standards-aligned lesson plans. Explore this engaging learning landscape with GPB as we set out together on a virtual walk into the woods!

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  • Rediscovering Georgia’s Forests and Forestry Resources Through Immersive Education Technology (Mobile VR Lab)

    Grade Level: 6-12

    Join GPB Education and the Georgia Forestry Foundation on a personal virtual reality tour of Georgia’s forests and forestry resources. In this session, a maximum of 34 participants will be immersed in VR technology through our 360º VR videos and walking tours. Soar over a Georgia forest via drone or zipline; wind through the understory on a hike or ATV trek; sit in the driver’s seat of a loader; hop on a logging truck as it makes its journey from the harvest site to the mill. Start at the beginning with a visit to a seedling line or skip to the end by touring a converting plant. Choose your own adventure and discover first-hand how virtual reality can help engage your students with interactive educational content that’s relevant to real-world experience.

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  • Start It Up Without Breaking the Bank: Game-Based Learning for Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurial Success

    Grade Level: 9-12

    Embark on an entrepreneurial adventure with Georgia Public Broadcasting and the Georgia Council for Economic Education! Join us for an interactive session exploring our free online learning game, "Start it Up," designed to ignite bold entrepreneurial spirit and enhance money management skills. Whether you dream of being an event DJ, owning a salon, or launching a dating app, this session is your ticket to turning those dreams into virtual reality.



    In "Start it Up," participants delve into a decision-making journey, navigating the intricacies of starting a small business. From the initial idea to two years of critical choices, players determine their fate – will they achieve future success or face the challenges that could force their business to close?



    Immerse yourselves in this game-based learning challenge where education meets entrepreneurship, a dynamic and enjoyable way to tackle complex money management concepts while experiencing the thrills of the small business industry. Don't forget to bring your personal device, financial curiosity, and your game face for a session that promises both entertainment and valuable financial insights!

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  • The Keys to Personal and Family Finances

    Grade Level: 6-12

    Whether working on a financial plan for college and career readiness or making a career or household investment, GPB’s free financial literacy content engages students in educational strategies that will help place them on a solid financial path and better understand the wider role of finance in their lives. Join Georgia Public Broadcasting in an exploration of our free resources including videos, games, and lesson plans, designed to encourage student mastery of crucial finance skills.

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