Continuing Education
New York State’s Public Broadcasting
stations are committed to lifelong learning. Adult
Education programming provided by the stations offers
adults the opportunity to
earn a high school diploma, develop literacy skills, focus
on career skills, or learn English as a second language.
TV 411
teaches life skills in a manageable, lively format. The
series focuses on parenting, money matters, and health.
Subjects include reading comprehension, research techniques,
writing to others, filling out forms, calculating
percentages, using fractions, test-taking, and more.
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 an 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.
Workplace Essential Skills
teaches not just the skills but also the attitudes necessary
to succeed at work. Reading, writing, math, communication,
and problem solving are presented in workplace contexts.
Learners see how to prepare résumés and applications and how
to prepare themselves for interviews and for the workplace.
In-depth documentary and scripted footage shows what
employers look for in new hires and how to fit in and thrive
in a new job.
Crossroads Café is an
educational series appropriate for teaching English as a
second language (ESL), adult literacy, basic skills (pre-GED),
workplace, and correctional educational programs.
Learn to Read provides reading
instruction to pre-GED students.
Follow these links to find out about
adult education series like GED Connection, Workplace
Essential Skills, Crossroads Café, TV 411, Learn to Read and
Math Basics, as well as tele-tutoring and outreach from your
public television station:
Thirteen/WNET, New York City
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/adulted/index.html WMHT, Capital District
http://www.wmht.org/learning/adults.php?PHPSESSID=c4e944d0bbb174c7765147aabe9221c
WSKG, Binghamton
http://www.wskg.com/Education/ae.html
WNED, Buffalo
http://thinkbright.wned.org/community/adulted.asp
WLIW, Long Island
http://itv.wliw.org/itv/programs/
Mountain Lake PBS, Plattsburgh
http://www.mountainlake.org/ed/itv/itv.asp
WXXI, Rochester
http://www.wxxi.org/education/adulted/index.html
WCNY, Syracuse
http://www.wcny.org/education/adult_edu_ged.php
WPBS, Watertown
http://www.wpbstv.org/EducationalServices.htm
EdVideo Online
Adult Education programming on demand
free of charge provided by your public television station
http://www.tv_station.htm
ThinkBright TV
Broadcast
channel and online service promoting lifelong learning
http://www.thinkbright.org/Community/index.asp
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