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All Pyramid Model Trainings must be completed consecutively, beginning with the "Introduction to the Pyramid Model" recorded training.
All Pyramid Model Trainings must be completed consecutively, beginning with the "Introduction to the Pyramid Model" recorded training.
Process & Play: The Power of the Arts
Process & Play: The Power of the Arts
What happens when we stop making 23 identical penguins and start making space for thinking, exploring, and creating?
Arts experiences in early childhood are far more than crafts and cute products — they are powerful pathways to creativity, expression, and deep learning. In this interactive session, participants will explore how process-driven, play-based arts experiences support problem-solving, communication, emotional expression, and cognitive growth.
Through hands-on exploration and engaging activities, we will experience how open-ended art, music, movement, and dramatic play invite children to make choices, take risks, represent ideas, and construct meaning. Together, we’ll examine how the arts strengthen language development, social connections, and standards-based learning in authentic and purposeful ways.
Grounded in Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) and aligned with the Kentucky Early Childhood Standards, this session highlights how arts-rich experiences support the whole child while advancing learning across domains including language, social-emotional development, creativity, cognition, and approaches to learning.
Participants will leave with practical strategies for shifting from product-focused activities to rich creative experiences — creating environments where children think deeply, express freely, and learn with joy.
When: June 9th
Where: Morehead Convention Center
Time: 9:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Lunch will be provided
Preschool Life Skills: Teaching Foundational Behaviors for School Success
Do your preschoolers share with other children? Do they consistently look when a teacher calls their name? What about asking for help or following directions? Many children need explicit instruction and multiple practice opportunities to learn these skills, especially as they prepare for kindergarten. To teach these skills and set up a successful classroom environment, it is useful to have systematic program for teaching, modeling, practicing, and reinforcing these foundational skills. In this session, you will learn about preschool life skills & receive all needed materials to implement the program!
Note: These opportunities are geared toward preschool classroom teachers, but we always welcome instructional assistants, Kindergarten teachers, special education teacher, related service providers, etc. as space allows.
Feel free to reach out if you have questions about relevance.
When: March 13th
Time: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Where: Virtual
Presented by Kim Howard, KATC
Click HERE to register
Strengthening Family Partnerships for Early Learners:
Growing Together at Home, School, and in the Community
Why is family engagement so important for preschool students? You do not have to be in the preschool setting long to know that strong family-school partnerships are essential. Research shows that relationships boost children's social-emotional growth, language skills, school readiness, and lifelong academic success while decreasing challenging behaviors and building caregiver confidence in supporting learning at home.
In this training, we will identify practical strategies to foster meaningful connections between teachers, families, students, and relevant resource staff. We will also focus on creating a collaborative ecosystem with ideas of how to involve local community resources to nurture every child's early development needs. By the end, attendees will have
ready-to-use resources and tons of ideas with a shared goal to ensure families feel valued, supported, and empowered as active partners in their child's preschool journey.
When: March 20th
Time: 12:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Where: Virtual
Presented by Ashla Vanhoose
On-Demand Training Sessions
Administering and Scoring the DIAL-4
Administering and Scoring the DIAL-4
This self-paced learning session provides an overview of the DAL-4, as well as information about how to administer and score the assessment. This session is divided in to 3 parts. Each part requires the participant to view a video and answer questions related to content. Once completed, participants will receive a certificate awarding 1 hour of professional learning credit.
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How to Write an Effective IEP (Self-Paced Training)
The objective of this training is to assist early childhood educators with effectively developing and implementing IEP's in order to improve outcomes for students with disabilities.
This training will also provide participants with clear instructions and examples for the process of developing an IEP that meets all federal and state guidelines.
Use the following links to access these self-paced trainings. Following each session is a series of questions to "test your knowledge." Your certificate of completion will arrive in your email once you complete the questions accurately.
Use the following links to access these self-paced trainings. Following each session is a series of questions to "test your knowledge." Your certificate of completion will arrive in your email once you complete the questions accurately.
After completing ALL sessions, evaluate the series HERE
PRINCIPALS OF PRESCHOOL SERIES
Power of Play - Curriculum in Early Childhood
Partnering with Families
TASK ANALYSIS
Learn all about task analysis, a teaching process that breaks down complex activities into a series of simple steps that students are able to learn more easily. This session is an introduction to task analysis and will answer questions such as when and with whom to use task analysis, how to complete a task analysis, and how to teach a task analysis.
Use the following link to access this self-paced training. Once you have completed the pre-test, training, and post-test, you will receive a certificate for 1 hour of training credit.
In this on-demand session, participants will learn developmentally appropriate practices for technology use in the preschool classroom. Participants will learn new strategies to embed technology use and digital media into classroom learning experiences.
Please contact the RTC if you have any questions or have difficulty accessing this training.
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