PBS Teacherline
PBS Teacherline® is an expensive alternative for professional development if a teacher has to pay for the courses out of their own pocket.
Of course, PBS Teacherline® courses carry course credit that most school districts accept. And, many school districts sign up for prepaid training programs to allow teachers to enroll in PBS Teacherline® courses without teachers having to shoulder the cost.
Here is a link to the PBS Teacherline®
Take a free course, Free Orientation Course: Practice Learning Online with TeacherLine …
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The PBS Teacherline® courses that school districts can license (even brand with their own logos) allow school district to maintain control of courses and course facilitation.
PBS courses also import directly into delivery platforms such as Blackboard™, WebCT (now controlled by Blackboard™), Desire to Learn (D2L), and Moodle! (Note: If you don't know what these services and learning management systems (LMSs) are, don't worry, you probably don't have access to them.
Note to Note: Moodle! is an Open Source, server-based software product. Moodle! is functional, but lacks to "bells and whistles" of the expensive learning management systems. The main issues affecting Moodle! are the lack of multi-user (i.e.; team-teaching capacities and the ability to import Microsoft™ Active Directory student logins)
Cost of PBS Teacherline® Courses
These PBS Teacherline® course are 10, 12, 15, 30 and 45 hour courses; and costs are related to which college or university offers graduate credit.
Course Categories
Instructional Strategy
Instructional Technology
Math
Reading/Language Arts
Science
Grade Level Categories
PreK
K-2
3-5
6-8
9-12
Complete Course Catalog
Check out PBS Teacherline® if you have money to spare and need the professional development credits.
The course materials are worth your while, but you will pay a premium for the credit hours.
Some day, school districts will discover that hands-on, on-the-job performance is more important to assigning teacher pay scales than college course credit and in-service seat time.
Until that time, take course work such as PBS Teacherline® to build your on-paper skills, and work quietly to build the real skills that count, the in-class skills that increase your ability to teach students.
