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 most ALL workshops! All workshops are FREE unless otherwise indicated.
 Workshops are offered by KCEE, Centers for Economic Education, and partnering organizations.

June 19-20 2013
 		 6th Annual Life Fundamental$ Summit
@ Holiday Inn Hurstbourne, Louisville, KY

Earn up to 10 hours of PD credit at this two-day Summit for teachers, grade 4-12. 
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July 29, 2013
12 to 3pm CDT

 Virtual Economics 4.0 Workshop (FREE!)
offered by The Murray State Center for Economic Education

@  Murray State University, Business Building North, Room 201

Discover an all-in-one CD-ROM—Virtual Economics—your one-stop resource to print-based, web-based and multimedia resources. Version 4 contains over 1,400 activity-based lessons from more than 75 publications, 51 key economic concepts, and a glossary with over 500 terms. This is a resource every economics teacher should have. Plus, these boredom-proof resources give your students an active learning approach with interactive simulations, role playing activities and multimedia clips.

*Get this curriculum for FREE for attending ($109.95 value).
*Door prizes and raffles of MSU merchandise will be given away to the first 25 registered teachers.

To register*, contact:
Todd Broker with the MSU Center for Economic Education
Telephone: (270) 809-5193 Fax: (270) 809-5478
Email: msu.econed@murraystate.edu
Or  register online

*This workshop and the accompanying materials are made available to teachers through the generous support of State Farm and the Council for Economic Education.

July 30,2013
12 - 3:pm CDT
 

 Math and the Stock Market Game Workshop (FREE!)
offered by Murray State Center for Economic Education

@ Murray State University , Business Building North, Room 201

In The Stock Market Game™ (SMG), student teams in grades 4-12 receive a virtual $100,000 to invest in stocks and mutual funds using a real-world Internet simulation. SMG can be taught as an enrichment activity, a project-based activity, or teams of teachers can incorporate different aspects of SMG into their own curriculum as an interdisciplinary project. Enhance your math, social studies, language arts, personal finance and technology classes.

Each workshop includes hands on learning activities and curriculum for attending participants. Each participating teacher will also earn 3 free teams for their class.

All teachers and pre-service education majors are welcome! Lunch will be provided.

To register*, contact:
Todd Broker with the MSU Center for Economic Education
Telephone: (270) 809-5193 Fax: (270) 809-5478
Email: msu.econed@murraystate.edu
Or  register online
 
 

If you are interested in offering an economics or financial literacy workshop in your district, please contact Susan Sandage @ 502-267-3572 or susan@econ.org.