For Trainers Only!

Ready To Learn is committed to fulfilling the national education goal that all children will attend school ready to learn. To achieve this goal, Blue Ridge PBS offers preschool and school-age outreach programs that combine books, exciting, interactive hands-on activities, and educational television to stimulate a child's natural curiosity for learning. Ready To Learn workshops always feature:

• Video Time - to highlight selected segments of PBS programming that will illustrate its curricular goals.
• Teaching Time - to train parents, early childhood teachers, school-age care providers, and classroom teachers how to use media effectively in the learning environment.
• Activity Time - to develop creative exploration, fun activities, and other educational experiences which will extend the content of introduced by the PBS programs.
• Literacy Time - to encourage the use of books as the vehicle for developing language skills, social skills, and a love of learning through reading.

Workshop Requests

If you have not participated in a Ready to Learn workshop presented by Blue Ridge PBS, but you'd like to, please review our workshop flyer (see above). Then, use our workshop request form to specify a workshop in which you are interested. Please select a workshop by title listed on the flyer.

Note that in order to be eligible for a workshop, you must meet the following criteria:

• You are a Parent, Teacher, or Caregiver of young children;
• You represent an entity that fosters the growth and development of young children, aged 0-8;
• You are interested in using PBS children's programming and associated resources as teaching and learning tools;
• You are in the Blue Ridge PBS viewing area;
• You have the ability to share what you learn at a workshop with enough other parents/teachers/caregivers to reach at least 100 children, aged 0-8.

If you are a trainer of an adult group, we appreciate your feedback about workshops you have presented. Your workshop summary allows us to improve our Ready To Learn training services, and helps us to continue obtaining funding for the Ready to Learn program. Thank you! (Click on the orange oval button to link to our online Ready To Learn Workshop Summary form.)

If you need to print out evaluation forms for participants in workshops you present, please click on the orange oval link to the PDF file. You will need Adobe Acrobat to be able to view this file and print it from your computer. If you are having problems, and you would like the evaluation form sent or faxed instead, please contact our Family Literacy Coordinator.