The Intel® Teach Pre-service Program empowers the faculty in teacher education institutions to train their students with the knowledge, skills and attitude required to integrate technology supported project based learning into the future classrooms.
During the training, pre-service teachers learn how to integrate technology judiciously and seamlessly in their classroom processes. As a result, they enter their first classrooms equipped with the knowledge, skills, and capabilities to integrate technology resources into any unit they teach.
In India, the program works in close collaboration with Universities and apex educational bodies. Till date, 36 Universities have integrated the Intel Teach Pre-Service curriculum in the Bachelor of Education (B. Ed.) courses. The program is presently associated with 66 Universities and 11 State Councils of Education Research & Training (SCERT’s).
India’s cultural and linguistic diversity has added another level of localization to the program. In order to reach the B. Ed. students whose medium of instruction is a regional language, the course materials have been translated into 5 regional languages – Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu and Gujarati. In Andhra Pradesh, the Telugu translation of the Intel Teach Pre-Service curriculum manual has been accepted as a B. Ed. textbook for all the 8 Universities in Andhra Pradesh by the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE), the apex educational body in the state that regulates the working of all the Universities in the state. The book has been published and distributed at a nominal cost by the Telugu Akademi, an autonomous government body that promotes Telugu language.
The State Review Council that was constituted to revise the curricula of all courses at the state level also has a member from the Intel team. This council aims to bring about educational reforms in the state.
