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Onsite Professional Learning: Hot Topics
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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Smart Heart, Master Mind: Powering Up Whole-Child Learning With GPB Education
Grade Level: K-12
Join GPB Education as we strengthen our whole-child superhero origin stories through self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, responsible decision-making, and future self. With thousands of well-being support resources and tools available at no cost through PBS LearningMedia, the sky's the limit to what our students can become.
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From Grand Central Station to Station-Based Learning
Grade Level: K-5
Station-Based Learning is a demonstrated model for incorporating differentiated instruction into a classroom setting while creatively building student independence and enhancing engagement. Join GPB in a hands-on workshop exploring ideas for using our free multimodal resources in the vision and construction of your own station-based learning environment.
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Instructional Strategies Digital Integration Playtime
Grade Level: K-5
Come play with GPB Education as we spend an entire webinar exploring and modeling some of our favorite instructional strategies. All of the featured strategies can be adapted across multiple grade levels (K-12) and shared as both in-person and virtual classroom activities. Join us for this afterschool playdate and see for yourself!
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Information Literacy in the 21st Century
Grade Level: 8-12
Our students need as much support as possible in discerning credible information, recognizing attempts to influence them, and creating authentic content for wider audiences. And GPB can help! With dynamic content from PBS LearningMedia, combined with research from the Stanford History Education Group, participants will leave with active strategies to promote critical thinking, collaboration, and research in the classroom.
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Differentiating Gifted Education
Grade Level: K-12
With a focus on personalized learning, extending the classroom, and twenty-first-century skills Georgia Public Broadcasting and PBS LearningMedia are explored to help educators dig deeper into content and allow students to individualize their own learning experiences.
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Learning Off the Charts: Validating and Supporting the Unique Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Children
Grade Level: K-12
Being gifted often indicates more about a child than their aptitude for academic achievement. Many gifted children exhibit both an intellectual and emotional intensity that manifests as an unrealistic drive for perfectionism and a subsequently high level of anxiety. How can we as educators be sensitive to these dual cognitive and social-emotional needs in our students and help them modulate their corresponding capacities and challenges? Join GPB in exploring our no-cost instructional resources that also strengthen SEL in the classroom.
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Unlocking Potential: Nurturing Twice-Exceptional K-12 Learners With PBS LearningMedia
Grade Level: K-12
Join GPB Education on a journey into the intricate world of twice-exceptional (2e) students—those who possess remarkable talents and confront learning or developmental hurdles. This session explores 2e complexities and offers insights on identifying and supporting them effectively. Drawing inspiration from PBS Roadtrip Nation and the thought-provoking video "Being You," we'll discuss personalizing the educational experience for 2e students, leveraging their strengths while addressing their challenges. Learn to help nurture and empower these exceptional students on their educational path.
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GPB Has the HOTS for Georgia Educators!
Regardless of the season, Georgia Public Broadcasting will always be turning up the heat on our collection of free resources around Hot Topics in education! Join GPB as we explore supportive content, instructional strategies, and fresh ideas around the focus areas of literacy, differentiated instruction, college and career readiness, and of course higher order thinking skills (HOTS)! Participants will learn how to access supportive resources and model fun associated teaching strategies for each hot topic.
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Project-Based Learning for Promoting the 4Cs Learning and Innovation Skills
Grade Level: K-12
Project-based learning (PBL) helps create a classroom environment where student motivation and creativity can thrive. It is also an effective approach for encouraging the 4Cs learning and innovation skills of Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, and Creativity. Join GPB Education for an introduction to PBL using content from PBS LearningMedia along with grab-and-go curriculum ideas and pedagogical approaches for implementation.
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Think, Know, Act, Go: Promoting College and Career Readiness
Grade Level: 6-12
CTAE educators support college and career readiness by providing students with the resources they need to develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to succeed. Join GPB Education for a hands-on exploration of how our free K-12 resources can help students to Think: develop key cognitive strategies, Know: master core content, Act: become proficient with a range of instructional techniques, and Go: take ownership of their own learning.
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Effective Communication Builds Relationships
Grade Level: K-12
Building and maintaining positive parent-teacher relationships can be a powerful way to support student growth throughout the school year. Join GPB Education in this interactive session as we explore effective strategies to enhance communications with families and share ideas on how to build parent-teacher relationships that become meaningful and engage all in the support of student learning.
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The Visual in Information Literacy: How Visual Literacy Enhances Information Literacy
Grade Level: K-12
The expansion of literacy and its impact on student learning has brought communication across multiple areas in today’s classrooms. Through Visual Literacy teachers can support students in learning to use images to create new knowledge. It is crucial for students to be able to read and decode visual Information because the visual content conveys information that may influence audiences. Visual literacy is used to obtain information and to construct knowledge. Join Georgia Public Broadcasting for an exploration of its free resources. With dynamic content from PBS LearningMedia, participants will leave with active strategies to promote critical thinking and collaboration using Visual Literacy in the classroom.
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Information Literacy: Navigating the News Landscape
Grade Level: 6-12
This session focuses on the importance of news literacy in today’s digital world. When reviewing sources, consider the strengths and weaknesses of different news or information sources and understand why checking diverse sources is important. Join GPB to examine digital resources and discover teaching strategies, lesson plans and collections with activities aimed at helping you to incorporate information literacy into your classrooms.
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Creating a Positive Environment for a Better Tomorrow: Culture and Climate
Grade Level: K-12
Join GPB Education for an exploratory overview of our comprehensive free digital content that supports creating positive cultures and climates. Teachers will engage with resources that they can easily incorporate into their classrooms. These resources can help students develop their social awareness, self-awareness, self-management, relationship, and responsible decision-making skills with the thousands of multimodal learning resources and tools available to all Georgia students and teachers through PBS LearningMedia. Teachers will have a chance to try out teaching strategies that can help promote positive climates and cultures.
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AI Unleashed: Navigating Education's Next Frontier
Grade Level: K-12
Discover the nuanced landscape of AI integration in education through this enlightening professional learning session for K-12 media specialists. In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) permeates various aspects of our lives, its integration into education creates both challenges and opportunities.
Drawing captivating content from such acclaimed PBS series as PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs and Hip Hop and the Metaverse, this session will delve into two main concerns surrounding AI in educational settings: its potential as a source of false information and its role as a facilitator of plagiarism, subsequently posing significant obstacles to literacy development.
Participants will engage in dynamic discussions addressing these pivotal concerns, exploring strategies to navigate the complexities of AI integration. From understanding the importance of proper citation methods when utilizing AI-generated content to leveraging innovative tools like GPTZero for detecting AI-generated text, attendees will gain invaluable insights into mitigating misinformation and fostering academic integrity. We will also touch upon the critical issue of safeguarding student privacy and obtaining parental permissions for AI utilization, empowering media specialists with the knowledge and resources needed to navigate ethical considerations.
In contrast, we will spotlight AI's transformative potential as an editor to enhance writing proficiency and as a creative instrument across the fine arts spectrum. Through practical demonstrations and hands-on activities, media specialists will discover how AI can be harnessed to inspire creativity and elevate student expression.
Embark on a collaborative journey to unlock the full potential of AI in education while equipping media specialists with the tools and strategies necessary to navigate its challenges effectively. Don't miss this opportunity to shape the future of education in the AI era.