Looking for ideas and resources to enhance learning and teaching, wherever they occur? KET Education’s Virtual Learning Series is kicking off a fresh line-up of sessions starting February 23!
Join KET’s outreach specialists and all-star Kentucky educators for webinars designed to help teachers engage students and discover new ways to incorporate easy-to-use, quality, education-focused content, for students of all grade-levels! All sessions are approved for professional development and ECE-TRIS credit unless otherwise indicated.
The Power of Storytelling: Crafting Student Stories through Social Studies and SEL Connections
Date: February 23 at 4:30/3:30 pm
Length: 60 minutes
Target: Educators K-12th grade
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This session encourages K-12 students to learn about storytelling and create their own fictional narratives as well as their own personal or family histories through cross-curricular activities. Explore how to foster student voice and creativity while integrating SEL and Social Studies lessons with storytelling, which has been called “the oldest form of education,” with high-quality, free PBS LearningMedia educational resources and KET Writing Toolkits, including ready-made lessons, activities, and more!
Amplifying Student Voice Through KET Media Resources
Date: March 23 at 4:30/3:30 pm
Length: 60 minutes
Target: Educators K-12th grade
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Looking for ways to help students amplify their creative voices? KET can help! More than ever students of all ages are creating original content to express their views and ideas. From KET’s Media Lab workshops to Young Writer’s Contest resources, such as Write it Out Toolkits and On the Same Page, students can learn skills for creating a variety of media. Additionally, the lessons and projects in PBS LearningMedia, such as the KET Media Arts Toolkit combined create a winning array of free tools to use!
Summer Learning with KET and PBS KIDS
Date: May 4 at 6/5 pm
Length: 90 minutes
Target: Educators PreK-3rd grade
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Featuring resources from KET and PBS KIDS, come explore multimedia resources designed to support learning in after-school and out-of-school settings. Join us as we explore the Family and Community Learning model for multi-generational hands-on family engagement. We will also explore camp offerings which include five modularly designed sessions (each 3-4 hours in length) using high-quality resources from PBS KIDS. All resources are free and include everything from a Facilitator Guide that gives a breakdown of the whole five-day camp experience to supplemental materials such as Curiosity Journals, Take Home Materials, and a supporting Slideshow, these resources will help provide a comprehensive learning experience for children in your community.
Let’s Learn Kentucky!
Date: May 25 at 6/5 pm
Length: 90 minutes
Target: All Educators
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Striving to help prepare children for kindergarten, KET offers high-quality early childhood instructional resources, including educator trainings, family workshops, and hands-on children’s activities. Brand new is Let’s Learn Kentucky, an online resource hub for parents and caregivers of children from birth to age 5 that offers practical, easy ways for families to connect and stay involved in their children’s education and kids to tap into their natural ability to learn. Let’s Learn Kentucky also provides resources from trusted agencies that focus on early childhood development, all of which are free. Learn about the resource and plans to make it even more accessible and user-friendly.
**ECE-TRIS Credit Pending
Computational Thinking: What? Why?
Date: June 22 at 6/5 pm
Length: 90 minutes
Target: PreK-3rd Grade Educators
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Computational thinking is a logical, strategic way of thinking that requires cognitive skills like sequencing and planning and helps young children navigate possibilities, accomplish tasks, and solve problems that are meaningful to them. Join KET as we explore computational thinking resources developed through the Ready To Learn grant. This new content will encourage problem solving and critical thinking, flexible mindsets/habits of mind, and collaboration. We will introduce resource to encourage these skills by providing opportunities for children to use the design process, think outside the box, make connections, and develop a flexible mindset through play.