Professional Development Opportunities
The Kentucky Council and its Centers offer training for teachers through professional development offerings, approved by the Kentucky Department of Education. These professional development workshops focus on KCEE curricula that have been aligned with the Core Content and can guide teachers as they integrate economics, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy into subjects like, social studies, math, arts and humanities, practical living, language arts, science, business, and economics.
Registration is required for ALL workshops!
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Thursday |
Free !
Stock Market Game or Take Stock in
Kentucky in twelve easy steps!
Webinar (gr 4-12 educators) Learn about strategies to use these programs/competitions and see the online simulation. Participants receive certificate for up to 5 free teams! |
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Monday |
Teaching Economics Using Children's Literature Workshop for Elementary Teachers, Grades K-5 - (Offered by EKU Center) @ Madison County Public Library in Richmond, KY This recently revised booklet of 21 lessons contains practical, classroom-tested lesson plans to use with popular children's stories. The basic economic concepts used in this curriculum include goods and services, consumer, producer, productive resources, entrepreneur, scarcity, opportunity cost, trade-offs, interdependence, economic systems, international trade, and the circular flow model. $10 registration fee due. For more info and to register |
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Thursday |
Free! Stock Market Game and Take Stock in Kentucky -
(Offered by NKU Center) @ Bellevue High School, 201 Center St, Bellevue, KY 41073, Campbell County Learn about using these exciting investing simulations to enhance your math, reading/writing, social studies and technology classes. Participants will receive a a PD certificate, pizza dinner, and up to 5 free teams for the Fall semester program. For more info To Register go to http://www.nku.edu/~cee/PD/registration.html |
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Thursday |
Free! Stock Market Game and Take Stock in Kentucky -
@ CUB Bank, 11601 Bluegrass Parkway, Louisville, KY Learn about using these exciting investing simulations to enhance your math, reading/writing, social studies and technology classes. Participants will receive a a PD certificate, light dinner, and up to 5 free teams for the Fall semester program. register online |
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Thursday |
Free! Stock Market Game and Take Stock in Kentucky -
@ Hopkins County Board Offices, 320 South Seminary St., Madisonville, KY Learn how to teach math, social studies, and practical living content applications using these exciting investing simulations. Participants will receive a a PD certificate, light dinner, and opportunity to apply for up to 5 free teams for the Fall semester program. For more info and to register |
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Tuesday |
Free! Stock Market Game and Take Stock in Kentucky -
@ McCracken County Board of Education Offices--Technology Building, 435 Berger Road, Paducah, KY Learn how to teach math, social studies, and practical living content applications using these exciting investing simulations. Participants will receive a a PD certificate, light dinner, and opportunity to apply for up to 5 free teams for the Fall semester program. For more info and to register |
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Thurs |
Free! Stock Market Game and Take Stock in Kentucky -
@ Christian County Board Room Computer Lab, 200 Glass Street, Hopkinsville, Kentucky Learn how to teach math, social studies, and practical living content applications using these exciting investing simulations. Participants will receive a a PD certificate, light dinner, and opportunity to apply for up to 5 free teams for the Fall semester program. For more info and to register |
| If interested in hosting a Stock Market Game workshop in your area, contact susan@econ.org. | |
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Friday |
Election Economics - Workshop for High School Teachers
(offered by EKU Center) @ Bennett House Bed and Breakfast in Richmond, KY This workshop for educators will illustrate how economists look at elections. The workshop includes up-to-date information and fun simulations. We will predict the winner of the upcoming presidential election! Each registrant will receive a booklet of lessons to use with your students. You will also have the opportunity to field test the lessons and provide feedback while earning a small stipend. $10 registration fee due by August 27. For more info and to register |
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Monday |
Free !
Stock Market Game or Take Stock in
Kentucky in twelve easy steps!
Webinar (gr 4-12 educators) Learn about strategies to use these programs/competitions and see the online simulation. Participants can apply for up to 5 free teams! register online Learn about Webinar |
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Tues |
Free !
Stock Market Game or Take Stock in
Kentucky in twelve easy steps!
Webinar (gr 4-12 educators) Learn about strategies to use these programs/competitions and see the online simulation. Participants can apply for up to 5 free teams! register online Learn about Webinar |
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Thursday |
Free! Entrepreneurs in Kentucky
(offered by NKU
Center) @ Fifth Third Bank, Houston Road, Florence, KY Teach about Kentucky entrepreneurs with an emphasize on basic economic concepts and entrepreneurship using Kentucky history, entrepreneurs, and economic development as general themes throughout the lessons. Participants will receive a free copy of the curriculum and certificate. For more info To Register go to http://www.nku.edu/~cee/PD/registration.html |
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Thursday, September 18 4:00pm to 7:00pm |
FREE!
Adopt-A-TowBoat Workshop @ River Heritage Museum, 117 South Water Street, Paducah, Kentucky Workshop to train grade 2-8 teachers to use the curriculum, Adopt a Towboat, to communicate with workers on a local towboat while teaching, science, history, music, economics, practical living/vocational studies and technology. Attending teachers and their students will ?adopt? towboats for their classrooms for the 2008-2009 school year. For more info and to register |
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Mon |
Free !
Take Stock in Kentucky
Webinar (gr 4-12 educators) Learn about strategies to use these programs/competitions and see the online simulation. Participants can apply for up to 5 free teams! register online Learn about Webinar |
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Thursday |
Free! Financing Your Future Workshop (HS Teachers)
(Offered by NKU Center) @ Citi, Houston Road, Florence Prepare your students to make better financial choices! Financing Your Future is a complete personal finance program on DVD and we will showcase some of the videos and lessons. Participants will receive a PD certificate, Financing Your Future DVD and dinner will be provided by Citi. Enrollment limited to 30 participants For more info To Register go to http://www.nku.edu/~cee/PD/registration.html |
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Tuesday |
Free! Financing Your Future Workshop- (HS
teachers) @ Citi Cards Louisville, Citi Hall, 1806 Tucker Station Road, Louisville. Prepare your students to make better financial choices! Financing Your Future is a complete personal finance program on DVD and we will showcase some of the videos and lessons. Participants will receive a PD certificate, Financing Your Future DVD and dinner will be provided by Citi. Enrollment limited to 30 participants Register online For more info |
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Tuesday |
FREE!
Kentucky in the Global
Marketplace: A workshop for middle and high school teachers of social
studies, economics, and business Presented by the NKU Center Location: TBA The Olympics were in Beijing in August and the world was watching. As consumers our young people actively participate in the global marketplace; and as workers in the Northern Kentucky area, they will likely find themselves in the global workplace even if they never leave their community. Join us for an evening full of ideas on how to prepare your students for this ever-expanding world?all correlated with the core content. Workshop participants will receive PD certificates, a light supper, and free resources. Registration is easy. Visit http://www.nku.edu/~cee/PD/registration.html |
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Free! FALL
workshops offered by our partner, the Foundation for Investor Education To apply, visit FTE's website at http://www.fte.org/teachers/programs/online
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