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Managing Challenging Student Behaviors

The videos in this collection originated in courses that are available on PBS TeacherLine, Promoting Positive Behavior in Schools I, II, and III, which showcase positive, systemic programs that help prevent problem behaviors. However, even when schools have implemented positive behavior and intervention systems with fidelity, they won’t be able to prevent all problem behaviors from occurring.

These scenarios, featuring actors in the student roles, illustrate effective strategies to address moderately challenging behavior, such as being off-task or noncompliant, as well as to de-escalate more serious and potentially dangerous behaviors.

The videos were co-produced by KET and the Kentucky Department of Education with support and content provided by the Kentucky Center for Instructional Discipline and University of Louisville College of Education and Human Development.

Youth Mental Health

This collection is part of KET’s initiative on youth mental health and includes videos from the KET series, You Are Not Alone, which explores answers to depression, anxiety, toxic stress, and suicide through the lens of experts, educators, parents, and youth; video of focus groups of youth, parents/caregivers/mentors, and educators discussing youth mental health issues; and video featuring personal experiences from youth and young adults on their experiences with mental illness and mental health issues.

STEM Works

KET is harnessing the power of technology and preparing Kentuckians for the jobs of tomorrow with STEM Works, a collection of high-quality digital STEM and workforce resources and related professional development.

Reclaiming Habitat for Honeybees

Explore the role of pollinators in the ecosystems they are a part of. In this interactive lesson, students will develop a written response to one of three questions about the importance of honeybees. They will gather evidence from reading assignments and video segments about Coal Country BeeWorks’ efforts to reclaim surface mining sites. Those efforts and the introduction of new colonies of honeybees have been mutually beneficial in Eastern Kentucky.

Communicating at Work

Knowing how to communicate in a positive, professional, and constructive way is one of the most important job skills you can develop. Employers value people who work well as part of a team and who can talk respectfully to customers and clients, especially when problems and complaints arise. In this interactive lesson, students will learn the importance of interpersonal communication skills, listening skills, and making a good impression. Students will gather information through reading, activities, and video excerpts from KET’s Dropping Back In to answer one of two final writing prompts about communication skills.

Kentucky’s Underground Railroad

Discover what the Underground Railroad was, the role it played in our county’s history, and why Northern Kentucky was such a key location. In this interactive lesson, students will develop a written response to the questions, “What was the Underground Railroad, and why is Kentucky an important part of its history?” They will gather evidence from reading assignments, video segments from KET’s Kentucky Life, and more.

Inside Opioid Addiction

Learn about the nationwide opioid crisis, its devastating impact on communities and families, and how agencies and individuals are pulling together to respond to this overwhelming public health crisis. In this interactive lesson, students will gather information through reading, activities, and video excerpts from KET’s opioid initiative to write a final essay about what the opioid epidemic is, what caused it, and what’s being done about it. The video segments are narrated by country music artist Sturgill Simpson and include doctors explaining addiction itself, family members recounting their emotional experiences with addicted love ones, and remarks about the crisis by former President Barack Obama.

Teachers should preview the content of any lesson before using it in class. Also, due to the large number of families affected by this epidemic, your students could have firsthand experience with these issues. Therefore, it is especially important that you screen this content before sharing it with students, so that you can be prepared for possible emotional responses.

Découverte

Découverte is a collection of videos and animations for teaching French.

Media Arts: Illuminated Art

Expand your classroom’s art horizons through the resources in the Media Arts: Illuminated Art collection. Showcased are nine art installations from BLINK, a Cincinnati festival of art and light.

The emerging art forms featured in this collection include projection mapping, where buildings and objects are turned into a display surface for videos, as well as a walk-through luminarium, illuminated dioramas and puppets, and more. Each resource includes a background essay, suggested questions to prompt classroom discussion and analysis, and activities to help your students imagine and create their own illuminated art.

Abenteuer

Abenteuer is a collection of simple animations for teaching German.