Real-Life Learning

Presented by Beth Kennedy, M.Ed.

This webinar focuses on real-life learning and strategies that can be used to capture the essence of an activity and extend learning into the future. The presentation will also include ways to share experiences between a student’s home and school settings — an integral part of building skills and concepts.

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Learning Goals and Objectives

Upon completion of the session, participants will be able to:

Recognize the value of real-life learning opportunities.
Utilize strategies to help build the educational value of everyday and special activities.
Capitalize on real-life learning activities across both home and school environments.

PRESENTER SUMMARY:
Beth Kennedy, M.Ed., has worked in the field of deafblindness for twenty-four years. She worked at Perkins School for the Blind, in the Deafblind Department, and graduated from the Boston College teacher training program in deafblindness, before taking a job consulting for the Florida Deafblind Project.

Beth is currently the Director of DeafBlind Central: Michigan's Training & Resource Project, and teaches American Sign Language classes at Central Michigan University. While she addresses a variety of topics when consulting, her primary focus is intervention. She has led teams in developing four Open Hands, Open Access (OHOA) intervener training modules for the National Center on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB), and has made notable progress in increasing the number of interveners working in Michigan.