Online Professional Development Resources

NRS Online Training Site: NRS Online is the training site for the National Reporting System for adult education (NRS). This site contains training courses designed for adult education program administrators that explain NRS requirements and courses designed to improve the quality of NRS data collection. You can also use this site as a reference source for the NRS.

LERN: Learning Resource Network offers online professional development course for Community Education.

Teacherline: PBS TeacherLine provides online professional development through facilitated courses, a supportive learning community and exemplary resources. Register for online courses or set-up a course section for your district teachers, educational institution, professional association or pre-service classroom. Individuals or groups may register. For institutional purchases or set-up your own district/institutional sections, Contact: mfrench@wxxi.org

To register for next round of New York State Courses beginning in March. 2005, go to http://thinkbright.org/teacherline

For more information: See PBS Teacherline: http://teacherline.pbs.org/teacherline/

Professional Development through Video On-Demand

WXXI broadcasts many of the Annenberg/CPB Teacher Professional Development programs for use by teachers and schools for their professional development. See monthly newsletters for schedules.

Annenberg/CPB: FREE Professional development courses are also streamed over the web for use just-in time use by teachers, pre-service teachers and districts to improve teaching strategies and pedagogy. Learn More: http://learner.org/

Pathways to Technology: A multimedia project highlighting technology degree programs at community colleges. The Pathways to Technology Web site, on-demand video, broadcast series, and outreach initiative are designed for prospective students, returning students, trying to decide what to study next or what career field they might go into with a community college degree. The FREE site provides

• Information about technology fields and degree programs
• Descriptions of common technology jobs graduates get
• Success stories from community college graduates
• Access to community colleges near you
• Answers to frequently asked questions

Video Series: Seven videos capture technology fields, current students, professors, and successful graduates from community colleges across the country. All of the videos, totaling more than 90 minutes, are available for viewing on this Web site. See the Videos page for a complete list and links, or watch the videos in short segments throughout the site.

WXXI Video On-Demand collection: New Professional Development Collection

• 2600 educational video titles and 26,000 video clips to download ahead of time or stream on the web.
  
• FREE account licensed by WXXI for all K-12 Educators, students, and parents in the viewing area.
• Learn More and Request an Account.

GED 2002 Online Training from PBS LiteracyLink

National Centers on Career & Technical Education WebCasts: The Professional Development Speaker Series is a series of multimedia webcasts designed to create an interactive learning environment to be used to enrich the professional development experiences of secondary and postsecondary career and technical educators across the country. All webcasts are also archived for later reference. Provided by: National Centers on Career and Technical Education:

PBS ESL/Civics Link: ESL/CivicsLink is a flexible new online professional development system for adult education ESL teachers. Developed by adult educators for adult educators and tested in the field, this innovative web-based product is managed by KET and prepares teachers to do the following: teach English to speakers of other languages, enhance cross-cultural awareness, and integrate English literacy instruction and civics education. The ESL/CivicsLink online professional development system... covers core issues in teaching ESL and civics. encourages active engagement through project-based learning. works for small group study with peer mentoring, and with both facilitated and non-facilitated models. provides customized portfolios in which teachers save journal entries, lesson plans, project work and resources. provides teachers with a collaboration tool via threaded discussions. includes relevant online and offline resources.