PBS TeacherLine is the award-winning and premier research and standards-based resource for PreK-12 educator online professional development! PBS TeacherLine offers more than 80 facilitated courses which offer PLUs and graduate credits, and more than 40 self-paced courses, just right for anytime learning.

GPB is your partner for local course support, along with SCETV in SC and UNC-TV in NC, together known as TeacherLine Southeast.

PBS TeacherLine is excited to offer the following new professional development courses for math and reading along with many more course options in science, technology, social studies, and instructional strategies.

MATH330: Differentiating Math Lessons for a Range of Learners (K-8, 30 instruction hours)

To meet the needs of a range of learners in the mathematics classroom, teachers are called upon to differentiate instruction. The need for differentiation is stronger than ever as districts strive to implement the Common Core State Standards with rigor and equity to promote the success of all students. Providing instruction that is differentiated and targeted to students’ strengths and needs is a powerful practice for improving math learning. This course stands out from more general offerings on differentiating instruction because it provides specific suggestions for teaching standards-based mathematics. Teachers will learn powerful approaches and models for planning and implementing differentiated math lessons that are tailored to their students’ diverse needs. They will take away strategies, planning tools and resources for applying the ideas in their classroom practice.

RDLA400: Developing Passionate Readers in a Digital World (K-6)

As educators, we fully realize the power of reading! We appreciate how it fills us with emotion, takes us on adventures, and opens a gateway to higher learning and understanding. This course provides specific strategies and tools that will help your students understand and know the joy of reading. Learn how to ignite students’ interest through personal, real-world connections, explore digital reading and audio technologies, discover how to use a wealth of online resources and tools, and analyze social reading’s power to connect and engage. Lastly, you will develop and implement a classroom literacy initiative that will inspire a love of reading through authentic experiences. The traditional model of teaching literature in many classrooms across the United States includes the whole-class novel approach and assigned books reports based on genres such as biographies or historical fiction. While exposing entire populations or classrooms of students to certain novels does have its merits, it doesn’t result in an authentic and inspirational reading experience. In this day and age of choice and options, we are surprised when faced with statistics that show students and adults seem to be reading less. To help students interact with the text and to support a daily reading practice, there are strategies that help to guide students through their reading, gain a deeper understanding of the text, and develop a joy-centered reading habit. The sessions in this course focus on the idea that nurturing and developing the practice of consistent and daily reading requires teachers to give students opportunities to read every single day.

Visit the TeacherLine Southeast website to view all upcoming course offerings and to learn more. Summer facilitated courses start June 15 and July 13.