A Global View

Intel® Teach is a worldwide effort to help both In-service and Pre-Service teachers integrate technology into instruction to develop students’ higher-level thinking skills and enhance learning. Participating teachers receive extensive instruction and resources to promote effective technology use in the classroom.

Over 4 million teachers in more than 40 countries have learned how, when, and where to incorporate technology tools and resources into their lesson plans. In addition, they experience new approaches to create assessment tools and align lessons with educational learning goals and standards. The program incorporates use of the Internet, Web page design, and student projects as vehicles to powerful learning.

With a focus on integrating e-learning into the curriculum, the Intel® Teach program promotes a project-based, inquiry-oriented approach to teaching and learning. Emphasis is on effective use of e-Learning in the classroom to enhance learning, research, communications, productivity strategies, and working in teams to solve problems.

Over the period of the program, teachers develop a unit of work to be implemented in their classroom. This involves the development of student samples, evaluation tools, resources to support the unit, and an implementation plan. It provides a context in which teachers can further develop their own technology skills and their understanding of the impact and implications of using technology within the classroom.

The program is delivered through a “train the trainer model.” Senior Trainers (STs) provide the initial training to a group of teachers (called Master Teachers or MTs) who have been nominated by their schools. These MTs then return to their school or cluster of schools and each train a further twenty teachers (called Participant Teachers or PTs).

The program consists of 10 modules called the Essentials Course presented through 40 hours of face-to-face instruction with an expected 20 hours of additional work outside the program. Participants are provided with a program manual and a CD which contains sample lesson plans, URLs for educators and students, educational sound and video clips and a copy of the various unit plans developed by each of the participants during the program.