Administrative
Benefits of Offering TeacherLine Courses to Faculty
| Administrators, partner with TeacherLine Southeast to enhance your existing professional development offerings and provide your teachers superior professional development while achieving your district's goals within tight budgets.
Explore the ways TeacherLine can help you improve instruction and student outcomes and then put
TeacherLine courses to work for you.
What educators are saying about TeacherLine courses:
Visit our Testimonials page for more feedback
and visit our Partners page to see our past and current school and district partners.
Why TeacherLine?
- Faculty learn from the best
Developed by leading educational producers and some of the
foremost experts in education, every course is standards-
and research-based and content rich.
- Immediate results
Courses relate directly to curriculum and classroom activities,
including designing projects or lesson plans incorporating
course materials; teachers readily apply their learned knowledge.
- Assured learning
Our emphasis on evaluation assures that teachers who successfully
complete a course have met the course goals.
- Peer exchange
Our robust discussion board component in every course is a teacher favorite! Educators benefit from the sharing of ideas and solutions with their course peers, whether across a district's private course or a national course.
- No need to hire a substitute
Courses are delivered entirely online within a flexible weekly schedule so teachers
can complete coursework on their own time not classroom time.
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As the premier provider of high quality online professional development, PBS TeacherLine has been recognized for its excellence by several organizations.
PBS TeacherLine Awards & Recognition:
"We wanted to provide teachers and administrators with access to staff development opportunities that were standards-based and supported the academic curriculum. It needed to be flexible and collaborative, and reflect "best practices" strategies.
PBS TeacherLine has given our staff development program another dimension by offering teachers flexibility in the format and a wide range of course choices. The technology courses have helped our teachers not only learn basic skills and strategies, but also integrate technology into daily classroom activities.
Our teachers are able to access the coursework with very few problems. They find the online instruction convenient and like the fact they can access the courses from school or home. We have seen teachers begin to integrate technology into daily activities and lessons, and to acquire new instructional techniques."
Jayne Boswell, Director of Instruct. Tech., Florence District 1, SC |
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By
providing TeacherLine courses to your faculty, you can:
Ensure quality P.D. with research-based content
and methodologies
- Our
courses, primarily developed under a grant from the Department of
Education, follow strategies that have met rigorous evaluation by an independent evaluator and incorporate best practices
developed over six years.
- Specially trained, experienced facilitators are the key to the PBS TeacherLine experience. TeacherLine facilitators
stimulate participation, make online learning accessible
for those new to the medium, and provide a crucial element
of social interaction to online learning. Facilitators
provide feedback and assessment against clearly stated objectives
to maximize teacher learning and subsequent impact in the
classroom.
This facilitated
and discussion group format is based in social development
theory in which learners' involvement in "communities
of practice" allows learning to occur as a function
of the activity and context. Our basis in situated learning
theory distinguishes our courses from self-paced ones.
All TeacherLine facilitators are highly qualified teachers, experts in their field, who have been peer-selected and hold master's degrees. All have taken PBS TeacherLine's rigorous Online Facilitation Training program.
- Our
content is developed in alignment with national standards developed by leading professional organizations and in collaboration with leading experts in instructional strategies
and content, including NCTM, the Concord Consortium, NASA, the National Board, McRel, NCTE, and ISTE.
- Our
courses incorporate metacognition activities such as prior-reflection,
self-monitoring and debriefing, drawing on constructivist
theory and the "habits of mind" framework. Courses
not only teach pedagogical theories, they utilize them.
- All
of our courses include guidance in modifying teachers' instructional
approach to meet the needs of diverse learners.
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Take advantage of P.D. flexibility and savings
- More
than 80 courses in core concepts of mathematics, reading/language arts,
social studies, instructional technologies, instructional
strategies, STEM, and science allow a district or school to provide
a broad range of courses from one source. (View our partner list.)
- The
online format accommodates both individuals and groups in
multiple locations, eliminating the need for substitutes
and special training facilities.
- Discounted rates available for bulk seat purchases and private school/district-wide courses.
Provide standardization
- A
district or school can enroll a cohort of its educators
in a private course that meets the school's strategic objectives
such as incorporating curriculum mapping in induction without
the need for in-service days or substitute teachers. This
course can be further customized to meet the needs of your
school or district. Contact us at 1-800-277-0829 to set
up a local course.
Provide choice
- Individual
teachers may have professional development needs that are
unique within the district, such as a course in linear functions
that only a couple of teachers in a district may teach.
With PBS TeacherLine, districts can purchase a block of
courses and let their teachers select the courses they need.
Help educators meet their P.D. goals
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Put TeacherLine Courses To Work For Your School/District
Supporting your faculty’s professional development through PBS TeacherLine courses is easy, and with TeacherLine's successful completion rate, learners' high ratings, and research-documented findings, it’s worthwhile!
Whether
you simply want to inform your faculty about TeacherLine courses,
run a private course for 20 district teachers, or pay for
courses for 1 to 100+ learners, we can help you.
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With TeacherLine you can: |
►Address a specific concern with a private course
Need to address a specific concern with a group of teachers? Any of PBS TeacherLine's 80+ graduate-level, preK-12 courses can be scheduled on demand as a private course for your educators allowing you to eliminate the need for in-service days or substitute teachers.
Just line up your learners and choose your course start date and we'll do the rest (minimum required learners per course is 17).
* Discounts available for private courses with 20+ learners.
Private courses can be customized to further meet your needs too. Call 1-800-277-0829 for details.
To
get started:
For
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►Meet diverse needs with a PromoCode account
Need to meet the training needs of a diverse group of educators? With TeacherLine, you can establish an enrollment promo code account and specify the terms of use.
- Choose your funded course(s).
Cover all courses or limit by:
- course(s)
- subject area(s)
- grade level(s)
- and/or number of instruction hours
- Choose your maximum funding level
($300, $5,000, $15,000, etc)
- Choose your funding allowable per course enrollment:
- full funding
- partial funding as a percentage
(20%, 85%, etc)
- partial funding as a set dollar amount
($50, $100, etc)
Whether you want to fund one course for one teacher or allow district-wide teachers to take as many 30hr courses as they want until a $10,000 fund has been expended, whatever the terms, we can create an account that works for you.
We’ll provide you with timely updates on the fund's status and learner course completion reports too.
* Discounts available for bulk seat purchases. Call 1-800-277-0829 for details. |
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