Thursday, February 2, 2006

Teacherline

Happy New Year from GPB and Teacherline. Get your year off to a great start by updating your teaching credentials with convenient and affordable Teacherline courses. Teacherline allows educators to save time and money by providing online graduate and re-certification classes.

GPB /PBS Teacherline courses are:

Convenient: The 6-week courses can be taken anytime, anywhere with Internet access -- no need to drive anywhere, arrange for childcare, buy books or tapes; all of your videos, interactives, and readings are online.

Certified: The courses can be used for re-certification or pay upgrades; graduate credit is available for an additional fee.

Affordable: 30 hour courses: 30 seat hours/2 credits/40 points ($199 seat fee)

15 hour courses: 15 seat hours/1 credit/20 points ($169 seat fee)

Courses offered:

Technology:

TECH145 Teaching with WebQuests for Grades K-12

TECH160 Putting Technology to Use in the Classroom: Where to Start

TECH195 Teaching and Learning with Graphic Organizers: Featuring Inspiration

TECH300 The Computer for Personal Productivity

TECH320 Introduction to a One-Computer Classroom

TECH340 Evaluating and Organizing Internet Resources and Content

TECH400 Capstone Introduction

TECH410 PBS TeacherLine / ISTE Capstone Certificate Program / Capstone I

TECH415 PBS TeacherLine / ISTE Capstone Certificate Program / Capstone II

Instructional Strategies:


INST120 Creating Units to Support Differing Learning Styles

INST125 Building Critical Thinking Skills for Online Research

INST180 Differentiated Instruction (Grades 6-8)

INST300 Curriculum Mapping I by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

INST305 Curriculum Mapping II by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

INST315 Teaching for Multiple Intelligences

INST320 Connecting Family, Community and Schools

INST325 Using Assessment and Evaluation

Math:

MATH120 Fostering Cooperative Learning, Discussion, and Critical Thinking in Elementary Math (Grades 1-5)

MATH126 Ahead of the Curve: Exponential and Other Functions for Grades 6-8

MATH165 Enabling Students with Special Needs to Succeed in Math Class (Grades 4-8)

MATH181 Math in Everyday Life for Grades K-5

MATH186 Math in Everyday Life for Grades 6-8

MATH196 Shaping Up: Teaching Geometry Using Technology in Grades 3-5

MATH246 Rational Numbers, Fractions, Decimals, and Percents in Grades 5-8

MATH250 Understanding Numbers and Operations: Addition and Subtraction in Grades PreK-3 MATH415 Seeing Math(tm): Transformations of Linear Functions

MATH420 Seeing Math(tm): Linear Equations

MATH435 Seeing Math(tm): Quadratic Functions

MATH455 Seeing Math(tm): Data Analysis

Reading & Language Arts:


RDLA125 Children's Authors on the Web: Online Sites that Motivate Students to Write (Grades K-6)

RDLA130 Teaching Reading in Science

RDLA135 Teaching Reading in Mathematics

RDLA145 Early Literacy Learning (K-2)

RDLA150 An Introduction to Underlying Principles and Research for Effective Literacy Instruction (Grades K-8)

RDLA155 Teaching Phonemic Awareness and Phonics (Grades PreK-3)

RDLA160 Teaching Phonics and Spelling for Emergent Readers (Grades PreK-K)

RDLA165 Teaching Phonics and Spelling for Beginning and Transitional Readers (Grades 1-3)

RDLA170 Teaching Vocabulary: Word Meanings and Word Knowledge (Grades PreK-2)

RDLA190 Teaching Narrative and Expository Comprehension (Grades 4-6)

RDLA215 Effective Writing Instruction (Grades 4 - 6)

RDLA220 Teaching Writing in the Content Areas (Grades 6-12)

RDLA340 Teaching Reading in the Content Areas - all grades

Science:

SCIE125 Fostering Cooperative Learning, Inquiry, and Critical Thinking in Elementary Science (Grades 1-4)

SCIE130 Fostering Collaboration, Inquiry, and Critical Thinking in Middle School Science (Grades 5-8)

For course descriptions, syllabi, registration dates and payments, including course refunds, please visit
www.myetv.org/teacherline.

For more information, call 1-800-277-0829 or send an email to Teacherline@scetv.org.