Description: The Intel Teach Essentials Course is one of many professional development courses in the Intel® Teach Program portfolio that provides teachers with the skills to effectively integrate computer technology to improve student learning.
Goal:
The goal of the Essentials Online Course is to help teachers discover how to use computer technology to captivate, motivate, and, ultimately, move students toward 21st century learning.
Strategies:
To meet the goal of the course, we use four major strategies:
*Focus on the ways students and teachers use technology to enhance learning through research, communication, collaboration, and productivity strategies and tools
*Emphasize hands-on learning and creation of curricular units and assessments
*Promote student-centered learning that encourages self-direction and higher-order thinking
*Encourage teachers to collaborate with colleagues to improve instruction by problem solving and participating in peer reviews of units
Content:
The course addresses an Essential Question: How can technology be used most effectively to support and assess student learning? Teachers work as curriculum designers and explore this question in eight modules and create a technology-infused, student-centered, standards-based unit.

Participants will use Web 2.0 tools, MS Word, Powerpoint, and Publisher to create teaching resources. A unit plan based on Louisiana´s Comprehensive Curriculum activities will be developed during the course as the culminating activity.

60 CLUs