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| :: Intel®Teach - A Global View |
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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 two million teachers have learned from other teachers 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. | |
| :: Intel®Teach In-Service Program Philippines: School Year 2005 - 2006 |
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Seventy nine Master Trainers (MTs) from 34 schools were selected for the Intel®Teach In-Service Program through a competitive selection process. Of these, 71 completed the Essentials Course in May 2005. The Philippines version of the Essentials Course was delivered by Senior Trainers from the University of the Philippines National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development (UP NISMED), assisted by selected MTs from the Intel® Teach Pre-Service Program.
Twenty seven MTs trained in previous years were also selected for Enhancement Training. Of these, 18 completed the training activity in May 2005. These MTs are expected to echo the Essentials Course to 20 PTs as well.
In addition to these teacher professional development activities, the program also provides continuing Pedagogical Support and Monitoring or PSM, primarily to facilitate the implementation of Unit Plans and to enhance the preparation of teachers for PT training. PSM is directed by Senior Trainers (STs) from UP NISMED and a team of support providers consisting of selected in-service and pre-service MTs trained since 2003.
Teacher professional development is further supported by the provision of training and support services to regional, division, and school administrators and IT coordinators. Two representatives from each participating unit have been selected to participate in a series of Strategic Planning for ICTs in Basic Education activities between July 2005 and May 2006. The objective of these activities is to provide participants with the knowledge and tools necessary for drafting a five-year, organization-wide technology plan as mandated by the Department of Education in the National Framework Plan for ICTs in Basic Education 2005-2010. Continuing Planning and Management Support and Monitoring is also provided. | |
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Drafts for completion: 15 (33%) |
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Drafts completed: 31 (67%) |
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