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Intel® Teach ProgramEssentials Course Overview

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Intel Teach Program

Essentials Course

The Intel® Teach Program is a worldwide initiative to provide teachers with the skills to effectively integrate technology into existing curriculum to improve student learning.

Since 1999, the Intel Teach Program has helped over 4 million educators in more than 35 countries.

The goal of the Intel® Teach Essentials Course is to help classroom teachers develop student-centered learning through technology integration and project-based approaches.

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Course Focus

The themes of the Essentials Course include:

• Using technology effectively in the classroom to promote 21st century skills

• Identifying ways students and teachers can use technology to enhance learning through research, communication, collaboration, and productivity strategies and tools

• Providing hands-on learning and the creation of curricular units and assessments, which address state and national academic and technology standards

• Facilitating student-centered classrooms that encourage student self-direction and higher-order thinking

• Collaborating with colleagues to improve instruction by problem solving and participating in peer reviews of units

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Unit Portfolio

• Teachers create all the products listed.

• These items together make up a complete Unit Portfolio.

• Peer reviews are conducted on the products teachers create.

Unit Plan

• Aligns to standards

• Focuses through the use of Curriculum-Framing Questions

• Includes Assessment Timeline to note ongoing assessment

• Provides accommodations to support all learners

Outcomesassessments

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Student Sample Assessment

Gauge Student Needs Presentation

Other Assessments

Presentation, Publication, Wiki, or Blog

Unit Plan

Works Cited Document

Implementation Plan

Publication on PBL

Documents to Scaffold Student Learning

Presentation, Newsletter, Brochure, or Web-Based Resource to Support the Unit

Management Documents

Assessments to Foster Self-Direction

Intel®

Teach Essentials Course

Unit Portfolio

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Curriculum Modules

Module 1: Teaching with Projects

Focus: Project-based learning and unit design

Module 2: Planning My Unit

Focus: Curriculum-Framing Questions and ongoing student-centered assessment

Module 3: Making Connections

Focus: The Internet to support teaching and learning

Module 4: Creating Samples of Learning

Focus: Project outcomes from a student perspective

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Curriculum Modules

Module 5: Assessing Student Projects

Focus: Formative and summative assessment

Module 6: Planning for Student Success

Focus: Student support and self-direction

Module 7: Facilitating with Technology

Focus: Teacher as facilitator

Module 8: Showcasing Unit Portfolios

Focus: Sharing Learning

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Typical Module Schedule

Pair and Share

Pedagogical Practices Discussion

Hands-On Activities

Modifying Unit Plan

Planning Ahead Activities

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Prerequisite Skills

Participants should possess intermediate-level computer skills Ability to:

– Format and edit text– Copy, cut, and paste text and graphics– Save documents– Use e-mail– Navigate and perform a search on the Internet– Use a word processing application

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Expectations

• Attend all 32 hours of hands-on in-class training

• Be on time

• Participate in all activities and discussions

• Complete Planning Ahead activities between sessions—up to 16 hours of out-of-class for planning activities and completion of unit materials

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District Incentives

To be added by Master Teacher

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Sign Up Process

Details on class dates/schedule

How teachers should contact you to sign up

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