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= STUDENT PROJECTS for the 21st CENTURY =

Intel®Teach - Research proven process methods
Intel® Teach is the most successful teacher professional development program of its kind, with over 6 million teachers trained in more than 50 countries. Teachers learn from other teachers **how, when and where to incorporate technology** into their lesson plans, with a focus on developing students' higher-order thinking skills. They experience new approaches to create assessment tools and align lessons with educational learning goals and state and national standards.

@Essentials Course

 * The Intel® Teach Program engages both teachers and students in the development of 21st century skills and the integration of technology for teaching and learning. Teachers and students collaborate, analyze the quality of information, problem-solve, and communicate using online resources and technology tools. Using these 21st century skills with the Essentials Course curriculum, teachers develop a project-based unit of instruction aligned to standards with multiple forms of student assessment (formative and summative).
 * As teachers progress through this course, they collaborate with other teachers and discuss ideas for both introducing and using technology in the classroom. Participating teachers develop a specific unit plan based upon material they are teaching. The goal is for each teacher to leave the course prepared to effectively implement a technology-rich Unit Portfolio that engages students in effective use of technology to achieve standards.

Thinking with Technology Course

 * The Intel® Teach Thinking with Technology Course builds on effective technology integration skills where teachers use free online tools to support the development and assessment of their students' higher-order thinking skills. This modular course provides face-to-face, hands-on experiences with unique online thinking tools that engage students and help them to communicate their understanding of complex concepts. Each tool features an online workspace where students create and save visual representations of their thinking.
 * Through Thinking with Technology, teachers learn instructional strategies for addressing and assessing thinking skills, using technology to support deeper understanding of core content. The goal is for teachers to leave the course with a standards-based unit plan, support materials, and implementation strategies to improve and assess students' higher-order thinking with the use of free online tools.

= The result is students engaged in standards-aligned, technology-supported projects that promote the use of 21st century skills. =