Our New Look!
Welcome to the NEW Educational Services website. As you can see, it has a whole new look. It is more interactive, contains more great learning resources than ever before, and everything is much easier to find. If this is your first visit to the new site, take a look around. Your comments and ideas are important, so contact us anytime you visit and let us know what you think. Use the navigation in the gray bar above to move through the main sections of the Educational Services site, and the menus to the left to select specific options in those sections. |
Workshops
WVIZ/PBS's Educational Services Department provides a wide array of Professional Development workshops for educators in over 126 school districts in an eleven county area in Northeast Ohio. WVIZ/PBS technology workshops and services can be tailored to a district's individual needs and can be done in the labs of WVIZ/PBS, in your school district, or via Distance Learning. We have exceptional facilitators who can provide training in technology and its integration into the curriculum. Our Professional Development workshops cater to a range of technology abilities from the novice to the scholar and focus on many different learning and teaching styles. WVIZ/PBS provides the availability of graduate credit for workshops that meet university requirements.
Online Learning
WVIZ/PBS Educational Services provides educators needed professional development opportunities in accessible online format that makes learning fun, flexible and collaborative. Our online courses are available for graduate credit from area universities. PBS TeacherLine is the premiere provider for our online professional development with more than 130 graduate level facilitated, courses that span the entire curriculum: Reading/Language Arts, Mathematics, Instructional Technology, Instructional Strategies, and Science. As a program funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, PBS TeacherLine is committed to helping educators acquire the skills they need to become - and stay - the highly qualified teachers needed to prepare students for a successful future.
Early Childhood
Our Early Childhood program is dedicated to improving the school readiness and educational success of young children through the use of public broadcasting and workshops for parents, childcare providers and early childhood professionals. We provide on air, online and print resources that assist parents and early childhood educators to prepare children for school success. Annually, WVIZ/PBS conducts numerous hands-on professional development workshops where participants receive free educational materials and resources including the Ohio Department of Education’s Early Learning Contents Standards and the Ohio Infant Toddler Guidelines. Additionally, each year hundreds of books are distributed to children that would not normally have books to call their own. Funding for the Early Childhood outreach department comes from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Child Care Bureau, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, BP and KCET A Place of Our Own/Los Ninos en Su Casa.
Distance Learning/NOTA
As an Educational Technology Agency, WVIZ/PBS provides quality distance learning services to schools in Northeast Ohio and across the state. This service coordinates the new IP technology in interactive distance learning applications. Through its Distance Learning Department, WVIZ/PBS has attempted to provide the best distance learning programs for students and the best possible technical and professional development opportunities for teachers.
NewsDepth
A valuable source of current events for thousands of Ohio third through eighth grade students, NewsDepth helps teachers meet state academic content standards in language arts and social studies, while linking Ohio students with the world. NewsDepth airs weekly on all of Ohio’s Public Broadcasting stations beginning September 18, 2008 and ending May 8, 2009. The NewsDepth website offers streamed video, video downloads and podcasts; lesson plans and support materials unique to each program and correlated to curriculum standards; a searchable database; an interactive Kids Page for students to express opinions and demonstrate involvement in school and community activities.
Media Resources
Find high quality media products correlated with state and national curriculum standards. These resources help students visualize difficult concepts, travel to distant lands, experience diverse cultures and bring a vast collection of media-rich resources to their fingertips via the Internet, DVD, cable and broadcast television, and videotape.
PSI: Physical Science Investigation
PSI is a series of twenty physical science video lab experiments aligned with the Ohio Science Academic Content Standards for grades 5-8.
A valuable source of current events for thousands of Ohio third through eighth grade students, NewsDepth helps teachers meet state academic content standards in language arts and social studies, while linking Ohio students with the world.
Local Winner for Reading Rainbow Contest
Local student Rachel Dugan Wood, from Wooster's St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception School, took the Grand Prize for third graders in the national Reading Rainbow Contest for her story The Adventures of Abby the Ant. Read Rachel's story, and the other local finalists, by visiting the links below.
>> Read The Adventures of Abby the Ant
>> Read the local finalist stories
