EducaTion REsouRcEs - KET
EducaTion REsouRcEs - KET
EducaTion REsouRcEs - KET
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professional development<br />
resources<br />
<strong>KET</strong>’s CD, DVD, and online resources provide facilitators, coaches,<br />
and pre-service faculty with authentic video of research-based practices<br />
along with lesson plans, facilitator guides, and other resources.<br />
Find out how to order these resources at www.ket.org/profdev or<br />
email pd@ket.org.<br />
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT<br />
Art to Heart<br />
Audience: Teachers of infants through primary (K-3)<br />
Program Length: 30 minutes<br />
Streams Online: <strong>KET</strong> ED On Demand via www.ket.org/encyclomedia<br />
Website:<br />
www.ket.org/arttoheart<br />
Focus Areas: Dance, drama, music, visual arts, brain development,<br />
literacy, children with special needs<br />
This <strong>KET</strong> series explores the importance of the arts in the lives of<br />
young children and provides ideas and information for parents, caregivers,<br />
and early childhood teachers. The Art to Heart viewer’s guide<br />
and website offer discussion questions, additional research, activity<br />
ideas, and other resources.<br />
Program Titles<br />
1. Children’s First Language<br />
2. Visual Arts<br />
3. Music<br />
4. Movement and Dance<br />
5. Drama and the Literary Arts<br />
6. The Artful Environment<br />
7. Arts for Learning<br />
8. Arts Every Day<br />
Art to Heart Training Modules<br />
Audience: Early childhood trainers and early childhood college<br />
courses to use in training/teaching early childhood educators<br />
and parents<br />
2-CD-ROM Set: Call <strong>KET</strong> Early Childhood at (800) 945-9167 or (859)<br />
258-7451<br />
Focus Areas: Dance, drama, music, visual arts, brain development,<br />
literacy, children with special needs<br />
These modules provide a foundation for understanding how creative<br />
activities such as visual art, dance, music, and drama are connected<br />
to early learning and brain development. Each module contains<br />
a training plan, a PowerPoint presentation with embedded video,<br />
standards correlations, participant handouts, activity instructions,<br />
needs assessment, evaluation form, and participant certificate. The<br />
first seven contain Level 3 content and teach knowledge and skills<br />
similar to that addressed in CDA and AA degree programs. The<br />
eighth module, training segments designed for parents, reflects Level<br />
1 content.<br />
Characteristics of Highly Effective<br />
Teaching and Learning<br />
Audience: Teachers and administrators<br />
Accessible Online: <strong>KET</strong> Teachers’ Domain via www.ket.org/encyclomedia<br />
Focus Areas: High quality instruction, literacy, math, higher order<br />
thinking, ILP<br />
This collection of learning objects illustrates and facilitates highquality<br />
instruction as described in The Characteristics of Highly<br />
Effective Teaching and Learning, available under “Instructional<br />
Resources” at the Kentucky Department of Education website (www.<br />
education.ky.gov). Five categories for teachers and students are<br />
explored: learning climate, assessment and reflection, instructional<br />
rigor and student engagement, instructional relevance, and content<br />
knowledge.<br />
Integrated Teaching<br />
Bringing social studies and arts together in the classroom<br />
Audience: Teachers<br />
Accessible Online: <strong>KET</strong> Teachers’ Domain via www.ket.org/encyclomedia<br />
This collection features classroom examples that demonstrate how to<br />
integrate the arts into other content areas including an English/language<br />
arts lesson in which students create a dance based on a Native<br />
American story and a social studies lesson that uses a painting to<br />
inspire third graders to think more deeply about the Lewis and Clark<br />
expedition. Teacher guides accompany the video segments.<br />
Literacy Central<br />
Audience: School literacy teams, teachers, and administrators<br />
Accessible Online: <strong>KET</strong> Teachers’ Domain via www.ket.org/encyclomedia<br />
Available: Fall 2011<br />
Focus Areas: Literacy and key elements of successful literacy programs<br />
This new collection is designed to help schools develop and implement<br />
literacy teams and plans. It includes the interactive Literacy<br />
Plan for Kentucky, developed by the Kentucky Department of<br />
Education, which can be used by professional learning communities<br />
and/or literacy teams to start and monitor the planning process.<br />
The Literacy Plan is fully integrated with the nine elements of<br />
the Literacy Program Effectiveness Review for Kentucky Schools<br />
(PERKS) and includes <strong>KET</strong>-produced video of best practices in literacy<br />
teaching plus activities that promote discussion and reflection.<br />
76 • 2012/2013 Education Resources
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