Featured Courses
Check out our newest course on science media projects and our refreshed courses on evaluating online information and analyzing media!
April 17, 4-6pm PDT
FREE Online workshop for grade 6-12 educators
Call for Change: Argument Writing and Action for Election 2024 (with the National Writing Project)
With the 2024 Election approaching, help students craft arguments about issues that matter to them–then share their voice through audio storytelling. Join the National Writing Project and KQED to unpack the genre of civic commentary, which combines both personal experience and research-based evidence, then start your own audio commentary to use as a model with students. You’ll leave with hands-on experience, curriculum resources in English and Spanish, and access to web-based media tools needed to do KQED’s Call for Change Youth Media Challenge or another civic media project.
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Educators in K-12 will gain the skills and confidence to successfully incorporate media literacy and media production into your teaching—whether you work with students or other teachers!
Set your own schedule and learn at your own pace with hands-on, step-by-step courses developed by our team of professional media literacy instructors. No expensive media-making software required.
Earn a Certificate of Completion for 10 hours of course work for each course completed. Courses also help you earn PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification and graduate units.
PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification by KQED
KQED Teach courses help you prepare to apply for media literacy micro-credentials on Digital Promise.
Earn all 8 micro-credentials to become a PBS Certified Media Literacy Educator.
What Educators Have to Say
"I had been avoiding media projects because I wasn't comfortable, but now I’m looking forward to it. The lessons really walk you through the student experience, which is so effective." —High School Librarian
"In the Video Production course, I made a short video which I showed to a fifth grade class. It was SO MUCH FUN! Their eyes were glued to the screen (an achievement to have such focus) and they responded thoughtfully and went on to write some amazing stories." —Elementary Teacher
NAMLE selected KQED's Educator Certification for their 2022 Media Literate Media Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to media literacy.
Common Sense Education rated KQED Teach a “Super PD resource for making media in the classroom” and the teacher community gave it 5 stars!
The California Department of Education selected KQED to help fulfill the state mandate to provide instructional resources on media literacy to all California teachers.
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About KQED
KQED is a nonprofit, public media station and NPR and PBS member station based in San Francisco that offers award-winning education resources and services free to educators nationwide. KQED Teach is a collection of professional development courses that empower educators to teach media literacy, make media for the classroom and lead media-making projects with students in K-12.