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Intel® Education—For K–12 Educators

Programs

Intel’s Commitment to Education

Professional Development

Overview

At Intel, we believe that high-quality education depends upon excellent teachers. That’s why we provide free professional development for teachers around the world.

Intel® Teach Program

Promote your students’ 21st century learning skills with Intel® Teach. Learn to integrate technology effectively into all grades and subjects while building students’ critical thinking and collaboration skills.

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Webinars

These free webinars focus on the effective use of technology in education. Find an upcoming topic, view previously recorded sessions anytime, and jump in a conversation to share your thoughts or participate in an activity.

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Intel® Teach Elements

Short, interactive, and free eLearning courses that you can take anytime, anywhere. These courses focus on 21st century learning themes such as thinking critically with data, leadership, and collaboration.

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Intel® Education: Teachers Engage

Share and discuss student strategies and best practices that work. Join a global online community of educators dedicated to transforming K–12 classrooms.

Network with expert educators worldwide >

Assessment

Overview

When teachers systematically collect the right kinds of information and use it effectively, they can help students understand content more deeply, think at higher levels, and become self-directed learners.

This free, online professional development course can help you learn new assessment strategies to meet the 21st century needs of your students.

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Assessing Projects

The Intel® Education Assessing Projects application helps teachers create assessments that address students’ higher-level thinking skills.

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Designing Effective Projects

Designing Effective Projects includes a collection of exemplary unit plans, many designed by Intel® Teach educators, that integrate technology into classroom projects. Learn more about how you can adapt these units or create your own from scratch.

Explore new unit plans for your class >
Webinar: Improve Teaching and Learning

View the free “Exploring Assessment” webinar, hosted by Dr. Peggy Grant. She’ll guide you through free resources that support quality assessments in the classroom.

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Thinking Tools

Overview

Intel® Education thinking tools are based on research that shows how valuable visual representation can be in constructing and retaining new information. Teachers can use these tools to create online workspaces for students to discuss, investigate, analyze, and solve problems.

Visual Ranking

Students can use the Visual Ranking Tool to identify and refine the criteria they use to assign a ranking to a list. Teachers can use it to help students debate their differences, organize their ideas, and reach a consensus.

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Showing Evidence

Anyone can have an opinion, but backing it up with well-articulated evidence requires careful thinking. The Showing Evidence Tool helps students learn how to construct well-reasoned arguments and prove their case with credible evidence.

Try the tool, get project ideas, and more >
Seeing Reason

The Seeing Reason Tool lets students investigate complex relationships and create visual maps that show their understanding of cause and effect. Students can work at home or at school, and even collaborate remotely with other classrooms.

Learn more about Seeing Reason >
Webinar: Intel® Thinking Tools

Get an introduction to Intel® Thinking Tools and see how they can help students turn their thought processes into clear, well-thought-out visual diagrams.

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Project-Based Approaches

Overview

Project-based approaches can help students develop a deeper knowledge and understanding of content, along with skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving—all of which are needed to succeed in today’s knowledge-based economy.

Intel® Teach Elements

This free eLearning professional development course can help you design activities to engage your students with self-directed learning.

Take an Intel Teach Elements course >
Designing Effective Projects

Gather ideas from successful project-based units developed by other teachers. Then design your own technology-enhanced teaching plan.

Get new ideas for your classroom >
Take a Wild Ride

Get an in-depth look inside this interdisciplinary project on roller-coaster design. The project engages eighth-graders in math, science, social studies, and language arts.

Explore It’s a Wild Ride >
Webinar: Project-Based Learning

Join ISTE author Jane Krauss and learn more about how project-based learning can improve students’ 21st century skills.

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Digital Literacy

Overview

Intel supports the effective use of technology to help students improve their learning, productivity, and collaboration skills. The ability to find, use, evaluate, and communicate information well is critical to success in today’s global economy.

Intel® Education Help Guide

Need a handy tutor who’s always ready to help your students with their work? The Intel® Education Help Guide provides step-by-step instructions for hundreds of technology-based productivity tasks. All instructions are written in friendly, nontechnical language.

See how the Guide can help your students >
Intel® Education Help Guide in the School

The Intel® Education Help Guide is a set of hundreds of easy-to-use productivity tasks that help develop students’ technology skills. It’s available in a variety of languages and formats for everyone to use.

Help your students develop new skills >
Technology Literacy

How can students become technology literate while learning language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and fine arts? Incorporate this active, hands-on curriculum into your middle school courses to address NETS•S standards.

Build technology literacy in your classroom >
Webinar: Digital Literacy

Award-winning blogger and teacher Vicki Davis presents “Technology-Driven Differentiated Instruction” to help you teach students to drive their own success. Don’t miss this lively, creative discussion of how well-chosen technology can benefit classrooms everywhere.

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STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)

Overview

Intel offers a wide range of curriculum, competitions, and online resources designed to encourage students’ interest and participation in STEM subject areas.

Design and Discovery Curriculum

Looking for a way to build interest in engineering? Design and Discovery is a free curriculum that engages youth aged 11–15 in hands-on engineering and design activities. Students follow the design process from ideas to developing a working prototype.

See Design and Discovery in action >
The Journey InsideSM

Ever wonder what’s inside your computer? Take this interactive journey through a collection of interactive lessons to learn about technology, computers, and society.

Go on The Journey Inside >
STEM Unit Plans

Use this handy index to find the STEM-related units in our online tools and resources.

See the complete list of STEM units >
skoool™

“If it’s green and wriggles, it’s biology. If it stinks, it’s chemistry. If it doesn’t work, it’s physics” (Proverb). skoool™ is a fun way for students worldwide to learn about math and science, in countries including Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

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Intel's Commitment to Education

  • Accelerating Access


    Intel supports education, advocacy, and technology access efforts all around the world. We want to ensure greater social and economic opportunities for children everywhere.


    Learn how we’re advancing access >

  • Promoting Quality Learning


    We’re proud to provide innovative programs and resources that help teachers teach, students learn, and universities around the world break today’s digital boundaries.


    Helping teachers transform learning >

  • Advancing Innovation


    Intel works with academic groups and institutions to promote excellence and innovation in education, with incentives such as STEM competitions, research grants, and more.


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