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Intel® Teach Program Essentials Course
Curriculum Overview
In the Intel® Teach Program Essentials Course, teachers create a fully-developed, standards-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 face-to-face or as a hybrid face-to-face course. Teachers are provided with all the necessary curriculum materials free of charge.
 
 
Intel® Teach Essentials Course curriculum
 
Module 1: Teaching with Projects
Module 2: Planning My Unit
Module 3: Making Connections
Module 4: Creating Samples of Learning
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 and/or national standards
  • 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 back to top 
 
 
  • 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 My Publication
  • Activity 6: Reflecting on My Learning
  • Planning Ahead: Beginning the Planning Process
 
 
Module 2: Planning My Unit back to top 
 
 
  • Activity 1: Addressing Standards
  • 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: Reflecting on My Learning
  • Planning Ahead Activity 1: Broadening My Understanding of Essential Questions
  • Planning Ahead Activity 2: Reviewing My Standards and Objectives
 
 
Module 3: Making Connections back to top 
 
 
  • Pair & Share: Sharing Presentations to Gauge Student Needs
  • Pedagogical Practices: Meeting Standards in a Student-Centered Classroom
  • Activity 1: Targeting 21st Century Skills
  • Activity 2: Modeling and Teaching Legal and Ethical Practice Related to Technology Use
  • Activity 3: Using the Internet for Research
  • Activity 4: Communicating with the World through the Internet
  • Activity 5: Considering Web-based Collaborative Learning
  • Activity 6: Using an Online Collaborative Site to Share Ideas
  • Activity 7: Reflecting on My Learning
  • Planning Ahead: Incorporating the Internet
 
 
Module 4: Creating Samples of Learning back to top 
 
 
  • Pair & Share: Using Feedback to Improve My Student Sample
  • Pedagogical Practices: Ensuring Safe and Responsible Use of the Internet
  • 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: Reflecting on My Learning
  • Planning Ahead Activity 1: Reflecting on My Student Sample
  • Planning Ahead Activity 2: Reviewing My Standards and Objectives
 
 
Module 5: Assessing Student Projects back to top 
 
 
  • 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: Revisting My Student Sample
  • Activity 4: Revisiting My Unit Plan
  • Activity 5: Reflecting on My Learning
  • Planning Ahead: Reviewing My Student Sample and Assessment
 
 
Module 6: Planning for Student Successs back to top 
 
 
  • Pair & Share: Sharing Student Samples and Assessments
  • Pedagogical Practices: Helping Students Adapt to a Project-Based, Student-Centered Classroom
  • Activity 1: Creating Accommodations for All Learners
  • Activity 2: Supporting Student Self-Direction
  • Activity 3: Creating Support Materials to Facilitate Student Success
  • Activity 4: Revisiting My Unit Plan
  • Activity 5: Reflecting on My Learning
  • Planning Ahead: Pre-Planning Facilitation Materials
 
 
Module 7: Facilitating with Technology back to top 
 
 
  • Pair & Share: Sharing Facilitation Resource Ideas
  • Pedagogical Practices: Using Questioning to Promote Higher-Order Thinking and Engage Students
  • Activity 1: Using Technology to Support Facilitation
  • Activity 2: Designing Facilitation Resources
  • Activity 3: Creating Facilitation Materials
  • Activity 4: Creating an Implementation Plan
  • Activity 5: Revisiting My Unit Plan
  • Activity 6: Reflecting on My Unit as a Whole
  • Activity 7: Reflecting on My Learning
  • Planning Ahead Activity 1: Revising My Unit Portfolio
  • Planning Ahead Activity 2: Locating Internet Resources for Educators
 
 
Module 8: Showcasing Unit Portfolios back to top 
 
 
  • Pedagogical Practices: Teaching and Managing Students in a Technology-Enhanced Environment
  • Activity 1: Managing Technology in the Classroom
  • Activity 2: Planning a Showcase
  • Activity 3: Showcasing My Unit Portfolio
  • Activity 4: Evaluating the Course
  • Activity 5: Concluding the Course
 
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