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Essentials Course Overview
In the Intel® Teach Program Essentials Course, teachers create a fully-developed, standards/syllabus outcomes-based unit plan and associated resources for a curricular unit they teach. The result is students engaged in standards-aligned, technology-supported projects that promote the use of 21st century skills. This course consists of 8 curricular modules, delivered as a hybrid face-to-face course.

Intel® Teach Essentials Course curriculum
Module 1: Teaching with Projects
Module 2: Planning My Unit
Module 3: Making Connections
Module 4: Creating Learning Samples
Module 5: Assessing Student Projects
Module 6: Planning for Student Success
Module 7: Facilitating with Technology
Module 8: Showcasing Unit Portfolios

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The guiding question for the course is: How can technology be used most effectively to support and assess student learning? In the course, you design and develop resources for a unit of study that you teach. Your unit is developed throughout the course's eight modules and consists of:

  • A unit plan with student learning objectives aligned to state standards/syllabus outcomes
  • Publication to present the idea of projects in your classroom
  • Assessments: assessment presentation to gauge student needs, student sample assessment, other assessments
  • Works Cited document
  • Student sample (presentation, publication, web-based resource)
  • Document(s) to foster self-direction and metacognition, such as project plans, checklists, conference questions, and reflective prompts
  • Document(s) to scaffold students' content learning, such as guidelines, forms, and templates
  • Implementation Plan
  • Teacher presentation, newsletter, brochure, or web-based resource to support the unit
  • Management documents
Module 1: Teaching with Projects
 
  • Activity 1: Getting Started
  • Activity 2: Examining Good Instructional Design
  • Activity 3: Looking at Projects
  • Activity 4: Planning a Publication to Explain Projects
  • Activity 5: Creating a Publication
  • Activity 6: Reflecting on Learning
  • Planning Ahead Step 1: Thinking about My Unit Plan and Project Design
  • Planning Ahead Step 2: Locating Curricular Resource Materials
 
Module 2: Planning My Unit
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  • Activity 1: Addressing Standards/Syllabus Outcomes
  • Activity 2: Developing Curriculum-Framing Questions to Engage Students
  • Activity 3: Considering Multiple Methods of Assessment
  • Activity 4: Creating an Assessment to Gauge Student Needs
  • Activity 5: Pedagogical Practices; Meeting Standards/Syllabus Outcomes in a Student Centered Classroom
  • Activity 6: Reflecting on Learning
  • Planning Ahead Step 1: Creating Project Ideas for an Essential Question
  • Planning Ahead Activity 2: Reviewing My Standards/syllabus Outcomes
 
Module 3: Making Connections
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  • Pair & Share: Sharing Presentations to Gauge Student Needs
  • Pedagogical Practices: Meeting Standards in a Student-Centered Classroom
  • Activity 1: Prepare for the Online Experience
  • Activity 2: Modeling and Teaching Legal and Ethical Practice Related to Technology Use
  • Activity 3: Targeting 21st Century Skills
  • Activity 4: Using the Internet for Research
  • Activity 5: Communicating with the world through the internet
  • Activity 6: Considering Web based collaborative Learning
  • Activity 7: Using Online Collaborative Sites to Share Ideas
  • Activity 8: Pedagogical Practices Using Emails and the internet to Communicated and Collaborate with others
  • Activity 9: Reflecting on Learning
  • Plan Ahead: Incorporating the internet
 
Module 4: Creating Samples of Learning
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  • Pair & Share: Incorporating Internet into Units
  • Activity 1: Examining Student Samples
  • Activity 2: Planning My Student Sample
  • Activity 3: Looking at Learning from a Student Perspective
  • Activity 4: Revisiting My Unit Plan
  • Activity 5: Pedagogical Practice Helping Students Adapt to a Project Based Learning, Student Centered Classroom
  • Reflecting on Learning
  • Planning Ahead Activity 1: Reflecting on My Student Sample
  • Planning Ahead Activity 2: Reviewing My Standards and Objectives
 
Module 5: Assessing Student Projects
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  • Pair & Share: Using Feedback to Improve My Student Sample
  • Pedagogical Practices: Involving Students in the Assessment Process
  • Activity 1: Examining Assessment Strategies
  • Activity 2: Creating Student Assessments
  • Activity 3: Revising My Student Sample
  • Activity 4: Revisiting My Unit Plan
  • Activity 5: Pedagogical Practices Involving Students in the Assessments Process
  • Activity 6: Reflecting on Learning Planning Ahead: Reviewing My Student Sample and Assessment
 
Module 6: Planning for Student Success
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  • Pair & Share: Planning for Student Success
  • Activity 1: Creating Accommodations for All Learners
  • Activity 2: Supporting Student Self-Direction
  • Activity 3: Pedagogical Practice Supporting the Diverse Needs of Learners
  • Activity 4: Creating Support Materials to Support Student Success
  • Activity 5: Revisiting my Unit Plan
  • Activity 6: Reflecting on Learning
  • Planning Ahead Step 1: Pre-Planning Facilitation Materials
  • Planning Ahead Step 2: Preparing for Pair and Share
 
Module 7: Facilitating with Technology
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  • Pair & Share: Facilitating with Technology
  • Pedagogical Practices: Using Questioning to Promote Higher-Order Thinking and Engage Students
  • Activity 1: Using Technology to Support Facilitation
  • Activity 2: Pedagogical Practice Using Questioning to Promote Higher order Thinking and Engage Students
  • Activity 3: Designing Facilitation Resources
  • Activity 4: Creating Facilitation Materials
  • Activity 5: Revising the Unit Portfolio
  • Activity 6: Reflecting on My Unit as a Whole
  • Activity 7: Reflecting on My Learning
  • Planning Ahead Step 1: Revising My Unit Portfolio
  • Planning Ahead Step 2: Thinking about my Future Development
 
Module 8: Showcasing Unit Portfolios
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  • Pedagogical Practices: Teaching and Managing Students in a Technology-Enhanced Environment
  • Activity 1: Sharing Educator Websites
  • Activity 2: Pedagogical Practice Teaching and Managing Students in a Technology-Enhanced Environment
  • Activity 3: Managing Technology in the Classroom
  • Activity 4: Planning a Showcase
  • Activity 5: Showcasing My Unit Portfolio
  • Activity 6: Reflecting on the Course