Professional Learning
​Opportunities

The Berea RTC provides regional and on-site teacher and administrator professional learning and follow-up in the areas of development, implementation and evaluation of developmentally appropriate, research-based, effective programs for young children.

Non-RTC Trainings

• Kentucky Strengthening Families: Overview for Service Providers: A free web-based training developed as part of Kentucky’s Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge grant. Use your ECE-TRIS username and password to login.

Additional Non-RTC Training Resources

• Child Care Council of KY Training Calendar
• Division of Early Childhood Learning Decks: Learning Decks are professional development webinars for those who work with, or on behalf of, young children with special needs.
• Eastern Kentucky Child Care Coalition Trainings

Email andrea.sargent@berea.kyschools.us to be placed on the distribution list for open-registrations professional learning opportunities.

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UPCOMING RTC TRAININGS:

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The Berea RTC uses whoozin? to register for all open-registration professional development opportunities. Each training has a unique link at which you sign up as well as opt out if you are unable to attend. If the training has reached capacity, registration will automatically close. Reminders are also sent out at least one week prior to the event.

​Lunch is on your own unless otherwise specified.

Supporting Early Literacy Development: Strategies for Enhancing Language and Vocabulary Skills
July 11th, 2018, 9-12, Berea RTC
Oral language and vocabulary are critical to literacy development. This session will provide strategies and resources to support oral language development for children ages birth-five with a focus on effective questioning techniques. Strategies for supporting vocabulary development will also be addressed.
Registration Link: http://whoozin.com/UUU-MTG-4XK4

​ECERS-3 for Administrators
July 12th, 2018, 9-12, Berea RTC
This session is a repeat of the session that was offered on May 8th and will provide administrators with information necessary to administer the ECERS-3 and will prepare them for reliability training in the ECERS-3.
Registration Link: http://whoozin.com/DWY-UDE-XUKK

Support for Children with Autism and their Families
July 13th, 2018, 9-3, Berea RTC
This session will be facilitated by Dr. Michelle Antle from the Kentucky Autism Training Center. In this session, Dr. Antle will provide participants with strategies for sharing information with families of children with autism as well as classroom strategies teachers can use to support children with autism.
Registration Link: http://whoozin.com/VHR-PAE-KJ6J

Preschool Pandemonium: Calming the Chaos
July 19th, 2018, 9-3, Berea RTC
This session reviews universal strategies related to behavioral guidance in preschool. Information addressed includes the brain-state model, conscious discipline strategies, and environmental support for preschool children.
Registration Link: http://whoozin.com/XP7-9XW-MDCV

Introduction to Teaching Strategies Gold
July 24th, 2018, 9-3, Berea RTC
This training will provide participants with an understanding of how to collect observational data, document growth using anecdotal notes, and run reports to share child growth with families.
Registration Link:​ http://whoozin.com/C4P-QX3-GEXC

Fall Leadership
September 18th, 2018, 9-2
Berea College Forestry Outreach Center
Registration Link:​ http://whoozin.com/NA7-4CQ-WJF4

Spring Leadership
March 19th, 2018, 9-2
Berea College Forestry Outreach Center
Registration Link:​ http://whoozin.com/NPP-M7N-WHVF