The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Louisville Branch is offering “Teaching Economics Through Children’s Literature,” a series of free professional development workshop on personal finance and economics July 8-9 in Louisville. The workshop will teach educators how to use popular children’s stories and the whiteboard to spark students’ interest in personal finance and economics. Free, downloadable lessons and Notebook [...]
The Kentucky Center for Mathematics is partnering with other Kentucky organizations and universities to develop “The Road to Success in Algebra I,” a professional learning experience for teachers working with 8th- or 9th-grade students before or during Algebra I. Teachers participating in the program should be better able to diagnose student need and use that evidence to design and deliver [...]
The Center for Learning with Nature is offering a free online professional development workshop this summer for middle school and high school STEM teachers. The training will help teachers learn to use the new “Engineering Inspired by Nature” curriculum, which applies ideas from the natural world to human technologies. It will be held for five consecutive days in June or [...]
The Georgia State University Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research will host four workshops on foreign language teaching in July in Atlanta. The schedule of workshops: “Technology and Foreign Language Teaching,” July 6-8 “Enhancing Your Language Instruction: SLA Basics for Teachers,” July 9-11 “Assessment in the Language Classroom,” July 13-15 “Teaching Heritage Language Learners: Needs and Networks,” July 16-18 [...]
The Air Quality for Educators Workshop, a hands-on day of environmental education designed to make the abstract world of air quality more tangible, will be held June 12 at the Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery near Jamestown. Participants will participate in activities and receive resources that can make air quality come alive for students. Teachers will receive materials geared toward [...]
The registration deadline for the Academy for the Integration of the Arts and Literacy, one of four arts academies and arts integration academies offered this summer by the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, has been extended. Teachers may now register through May 8 for the arts-literacy academy July 20-23 in Florence. The academy is open to teachers in grades [...]
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Louisville Branch will host a one-day global economic forum for educators June 29 in Louisville. “Globalization and the U.S. Economy” will examine the phenomenon of globalization and its continual impact on the U.S. economy. It will feature St. Louis Fed economists discussing current trends in globalization and how the increase in global trade [...]
“Connecting the 4 C’s,” a conference sponsored by the Indiana Department of Education that focuses on the “4 C’s” of 21st century learning: communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity, will be held June 9-10 in Mount Vernon, Indiana, about 30 miles northwest of Henderson. The conference focuses on the need for students to have regular access to technology that enhances [...]
Texas Instruments is sponsoring a workshop, “Exploring Common Core Topics in Mathematics with TI-Nspire Technology,” June 16-18 in Frankfort. The workshop is designed for algebra, geometry and statistics teachers who need support in transitioning to state standards for mathematics. It addresses key topics across conceptual categories for mathematics and essential technology skills for the TI-Nspire handheld and TI-Nspire Teacher Software. [...]
Teams of two to three teachers are invited to participate in a mathematics training session presented by Kentucky Educational Television on June 19 in Lexington. The training will be led by nationally recognized mathematics educator and writer Linda Sheffield, who will lead a hands-on workshop on fraction multiplication and division and proportional reasoning. The day will include an introduction to [...]