Technology moves fast, and it can be a challenge to keep up with the best practices for integrating the latest innovations into your classroom instruction. CIITS and Edivation offer a series of videos showing examples of teachers doing just that — using new technologies to engage and enlighten students in ways never before possible in the classroom. Follow the instructions [...]
Kentucky teachers, like those in most other American classrooms, face the challenge of closing achievement gaps. As difficult as this can be, there are strategies that have been shown to work in all types of classrooms and among all types of students. Through CIITS and Edivation, Kentucky educators have access to a professional learning video that can equip them with some [...]
Nearly 200 teachers from Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana gathered recently at Thomas Nelson High School in Bardstown for the state’s first Edcamp, an “unconference” where educators set the agenda when they arrive at the event.
Are your mathematics scores where you would like them to be? Instructional leaders are invited to explore tools designed to determine the extent of implementation of the Kentucky Core Academic Standards and the Standards for Mathematical Practice within the whole school mathematics program. At a daylong workshop on Nov. 19, become familiar with the Instructional Implementation Sequence: Attaining the CCSS [...]
The Kentucky Geographic Alliance will sponsor at a Teacher Leader Institute on Nov. 7-9 in Bowling Green. The institute, which will be limited to eight people, is intended to create a cadre of teachers to conduct professional learning and leadership activities for the alliance. All travel, food and lodging will be paid for, and there is a $400 stipend. For more [...]
This week, Joellen Killion from Learning Forward and Karen Kidwell, director, Division of Program Standards with the Kentucky Department of Education, team up for a guest blog on the importance of professional learning and a new resource that can help ensure meaningful and effective professional learning opportunities, which are critical to the continuous improvement process and our overall success. Since [...]
An externship program gives Jefferson County educators a better idea of how to incorporate real-world problems into their teaching.
A free workshop on teaching economics through children’s literature will be held from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. CT Sept. 29 in Room 2003 of Gary Ransdell Hall at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. This workshop, offered by the WKU Center and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’ Louisville Branch, will introduce elementary school teachers to basic economic concepts. [...]
This school year, teachers, you have the opportunity to help your students achieve new heights in growth and learning. Are you ready? You can prepare yourself with outstanding primers on classroom management available on Edivation (formerly PD 360) via Kentucky’s Continuous Instructional Improvement Technology system (CIITS). These expert-vetted videos feature teaching best practices with real master teachers in their classrooms. [...]
This summer 45 teachers from across the state spent a week in Frankfort learning how to infuse arts into field trips. By early next year the lesson plans they developed will be available for teachers statewide.