Professional Development

Pearson, Teaching Channel Partner for Online PD

• By Joshua Bolkan
• 05/18/16

Pearson has partnered with Teaching Channel to create an online professional development community for teachers who use Pearson's myPerspectives English language arts (ELA) curriculum.

Pearson myPerspectives is a blended print and digital integrated curriculum for grades 6-12 that the company launched in February. With this partnership, myPerspectives teachers across the country will have the opportunity to collaborate in an online professional community through the Teaching Channel, a collaborative, online, video-based professional learning platform, allowing them "to watch teacher-created videos, take notes and share resources in real time as they learn techniques to improve their own classroom practices," according to a news release.

With the myPerspectives Teaching Channel, teachers can access on-demand professional development, including modeling videos of myPerspectives lessons. Teachers can also participate in video-enabled professional learning communities called Teaching Channel Teams to share best practices and teaching resources, and to collaborate through videos. The platform also offers a professional development video library containing hundreds of teacher-created videos that model classroom-based strategies for teaching other ELA, social studies, math and science lessons.

"The myPerspectives partnership with Teaching Channel enables us to leverage a social media platform that will empower teachers by encouraging innovation and promoting best practices," said Leigh Ann Garcia, vice president of product management and marketing, K-12 literacy for Pearson, in a prepared statement.

Teachers can sign up for free on the Teaching Channel site. Further information about the partnership between Pearson myPerspectives and Teaching Channel can be found on Pearson's site.