, KET Education Staff
April 12, 2021
Workplace Essential Skills, KET’s flexible online adult education courses that allow learners to refresh basic math, language arts and soft skills contextualized to their choice of seven industries, is now offering a new Job Search component with each course.
, KET Education Staff
February 1, 2021
Have you started to think about what life will look like in the fall of 2021 and beyond? COVID-19 vaccines are being administered to masses of Americans right now. If predictions are accurate, we should begin to see restrictions lifted even further and economic recovery slowly begin in the months ahead. What will the new normal look like?
, KET Education Staff
January 14, 2021
2020 will go down as a year like no other for most people. While many will talk about the challenges of halting normal routines due to a global pandemic, Heather Farley will speak of 2020 as a year when she accomplished a big goal. In November, she completed her high school equivalency credential, something she had been working toward for years.
, KET Education Staff
November 11, 2020
KET’s Workplace Essential Skills is getting a new content addition early in 2021. The upgrade will add a job search module to each of the contextualized career fields so students can learn how to best search for jobs within specific career sectors. They will be able to create resumes and evaluate them against recommendations made within the Workplace Essential Skills courses.
, KET Education Staff
September 1, 2020
Remember when we flipped on the lights in our classrooms and learning centers, fired up the computers, poured a cup of coffee, watched students sign-in and went about providing assistance and instruction as needed? Well, that was then. Everything has changed everywhere, but perhaps one of the places where serving students has been most adversely impacted is within correctional facilities.
, KET Education Staff
August 12, 2020
Adult educators are reaching out via social media platforms, setting up conversation portals through apps like Slack, using Zoom to teach classes and recommending proven online learning systems like KET’s FastForward and more. If you are looking for short text messages to send your learners find the perfect thing to send inside the Test Tips included in KET’s FastForward online learning system.
, KET Education Staff
May 22, 2020
KET recently participated in GED® Testing Services’ social media Grad Day celebration. “Adult education programs all across America utilize KET’s online learning system, FastForward, to enable their adult learners to prepare for and successfully pass the GED® test”, said Tonya Crum, Senior Director of Education for KET. “We are honored to play a small part in the accomplishments of so many students and staff. We could only highlight a few in a short video clip but we celebrate the success of graduates everywhere.”
, KET Education Staff
May 1, 2020
Teachers – THANK YOU for all you do to support and nurture Kentucky's learners! KET Education would like to show our appreciation with fun giveaways throughout the week. Just enter your name, school email and school name in the form below by Friday, May 8 for a chance to win!
, KET Education Staff
April 30, 2020
Recently, KET hosted a group of Kentucky-based adult educators to ask what was working for their learners and programs. “It is very encouraging to hear the way adult educators continue to step up no matter the challenge,” said Sarah Wilkins, Director of Adult Education at KET. What's working for your adult learning program during these challenging times? We want to hear YOUR story.
, KET Education Staff
April 9, 2020
The KET Education team would like to know what's working for you and what you need more help with while your students and children are learning at home. Please take a minute to let us know what has been helpful, and what we could improve. Fill out the survey below and include contact information by April 24 to be entered into our random prize drawing for a Chromebook for your classroom and other KET and PBS swag.