Intel® Teach Philippines, through its training and curriculum adaptation arm, the UP National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development (NISMED), in cooperation with the Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development (FIT-ED) and with the Department of Education (DepED), conducted its First Batch of National Training on Getting Started (GS) and Skills for Success (SFS) Courses last April 16 to 24, 2007 at the Information Science Laboratory of UP NISMED in Diliman, Quezon City. 

The Getting Started Course is a new teacher professional development program designed for classroom teachers in need of basic computer skills. At the same time, it introduces the teachers to 21st century teaching and learning approaches. The Skills for Success Course on the other hand, prepares Information and Communications Technology (ICT) teachers to implement a student curriculum that develops key 21st century learning skills with focus on technology literacy, critical thinking, and collaboration.   

The Smart School International Conference held last April 16-18, 2007 in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia was co-organized by the Ministry of Education in Malaysia to provide policy makers and educators with an international forum where ideas, practical educational experiences and policies can be presented and discussed on the results and outcomes of ICT utilization in Education. The conference was a learner-oriented experience, leveraging on and capturing practitioners’ actual first hand involvement. With over two hundred and fifty educators, government representatives and strategic industry partners from thirty-two countries, speakers from intergovernmental organizations were also invited to share multilateral cooperation and development strategies and programs on ICT and education.

Intel^® Teach Master Trainer Rosalie Bongon was likewise invited to participate in the three-day conference conference. Rosalie is an English teacher at San Francisco High School in Quezon City and was one of the MTs given recognition in the Intel^® Teach Awards for 21^st Century Educators held in Cebu City last September 2006.    

The Intel® Teach Awards for 21st Century Educators was held last 06 September 2006 at the Waterfront Hotel in Lahug, Cebu. A culminating activity for program participants in SY 2005-2006, the event recognized valuable contribution and collaboration of selected administrators, teachers and support providers in support of ICT use for classroom instruction.   

We would like to begin 2006 by commending all the Regions, Divisions and Schools for the big step taken towards the completion of their Strategic Plans for ICT Use in Basic Education!I

Keynote Speech delivered by Department of Education Undersecretary Ramon C. Bacani at the Opening of the 2005 Master Trainers Forum.

Thirty two public high schools, 10 schools divisions, and five regional offices of the Department of Education are drafting Medium Term Strategic Plans for ICTs in Basic Education under the 2005 Intel? Teach to the Future Program.