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- PBS TEACHERS
PBS RESOURCES
TeacherLine: Innovative Online Professional Development
Explore PBS TeacherLine’s new site and learn more about this innovative program, which provides online professional development for teachers through facilitated modules that meet state and local standards, along with supportive and collaborative learning communities and exemplary internet-based resources.
Kids In Need Teacher Grants
Elementary / Middle / High School
Kids In Need Teacher Grants provide K-12 educators with funding to provide innovative learning opportunities for their students. The SHOPA Kids In Need Foundation helps to engage students in the learning process by supporting our most creative and important educational resource — our nation's teachers. Retail sponsors and designated education credit unions make the grant applications available at their outlets during the back-to-school season.
Adult Learning
PBS LiteracyLink
PBS LiteracyLink is a public broadcasting initiative that links underserved and hard-to-reach adults and their teachers to exciting new learning tools. LiteracyLink uses public television and the internet to reach learners and teachers whenever they are.
Web-based instruction for ESL learners and teachers is also in development.
GED on TV
GED on TV is your information source for adult education on Indiana public television stations.
GED Connection
Tue & Thu, 11am
GED Connection is a dynamic multimedia instructional package that prepares learners for the new GED exam and for the world beyond. It creatively combines video, workbooks and the internet. The series uses and engaging documentary-style approach to instruction, with many real-life examples of how people use the skills and knowledge tested on the GED at work and in their homes and communities. GED Connection combines interviews with experts, learners, poets and scientists with documentary footage and informational graphics. The series is informative and exciting, even for curious, non-GED viewers.
Local Resources
WTIU Web Features
COLUMBUS, INDIANA: DIFFERENT BY DESIGN
The companion web site to this WTIU documentary was created to help kids learn about the historical and cultural context that surrounded the construction of eight key Columbus buildings.
DOC COUNSILMAN: MAKING WAVES
The companion web site for this WTIU documentary about legendary IU swimming coach Doc Counsilman includes a biography, interactive timeline, photo gallery, and a variety of swimming links and resources.
LA CARA LATINA
Based on a Mathers Museum of World Cultures Exhibit, this web site explores the beauty and diversity of the “Latin Face” of Bloomington.
PBS KIDS PLAY! explores math, science, literacy and other subjects using interactive games. The games address national educational standards (ages 3 to 6) and adapt to your child’s individual progress. For a 14-day FREE trial, click here.
Upcoming Programs
Arts & Literature
The Friday Zone
Elementary / Middle School
Fridays at 4:30pm
Repeats Saturdays at 10am
WTIU's Emmy-Award winning children's series covers a wide range of topics, including performing arts, the visual arts, science, math, the environment and Indiana history.
Social Studies
PBS Previews: The National Parks
Middle / High School
Sunday, July 5 at 10:30pm
PBS previews the new Ken Burns documentary series, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, which will air in September. The 12-hour, six-part documentary series, is the story of an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most special places in the nation should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone.
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Middle School / High School
Weeknights at 7pm
For 30 years, millions of Americans and citizens of the world have turned to MacNeil/Lehrer Productions for the solid, reliable reporting that has made The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer one of the most trusted news programs in television.
Foreign Exchange
High School
Fridays at 10:30pm
Foreign Exchange, hosted by acclaimed international news anchor Daljit Dhaliwal, probes the global questions of the moment from a profound and informed perspective.
Site of the Week
PBS TeacherLine
PBS TeacherLine's high quality, standards-based graduate-level courses offer teachers the professional development opportunities they need in an accessible online format that makes learning fun, flexible and collaborative. You can earn graduate credit, PDPs, or CEUs while gaining strategies and resources to bring directly to your classroom.