Workshops

PBS offers a comprehensive literacy outreach program centered around its fine educational programming. Mountain Lake PBS supports this outreach on a local level through workshops, grants, materials and a free book distribution. These activities are supported by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, contributions and local corporate sponsors.

Mountain Lake PBS offers the following school-based workshops:

TIPS AND STRATEGIES FOR PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS TO SUPPORT A CHILD’S READING JOURNEY

Ideal for parents and caregivers of children, birth through age 10.
This workshop is a family literacy workshop and participants will learn specific research based reading strategies to help their children learn to read and to support their developing skills.
Suitable for family school meetings or literacy nights.
All workshop participants receive materials and a free book.

BEST RESEARCH BASED PRACTICES TO USE IN CONTENT AREA SUBJECTS

Ideal for teachers
Suitable for staff development workshops and Superintendents Day presentations.
Participants will explore a core of specific research based comprehension strategies to use across content area subjects.

EDVIDEO AND THE EDUCATION RESOURCES OF PBS

Ideal for teachers and educators
In this workshop, participants will explore the EdVideo Online training at the PowerMedia Site and receive information on the following: VITAL, PBS Teachers, TeacherLine @ PBS, Homework Hotline and educational programming.
Participants will learn how to access and download videos and images in different subject areas. The content is aligned to New York state standards. This session includes a hands-on tour of the site as well as suggestions for incorporating video into your curriculum.

CREATING A SCHOOL–WIDE ANTI-BULLYING PROGRAM

Ideal for teachers
Participants will learn strategies to integrate Mountain Lake produced video, “Dissed-Respect: The Impact of Bullying” into curriculum in order to create a school-wide anti-bullying program.

Workshop instruction is provided by Jane Owens, M.S. Education NY State certified Reading Teacher.

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