Intel Tools, Resources and Professional Development for Teachers

Intel® Teach Program offers proven professional teacher development for 21st century skills, and is the largest, most successful program of its kind. It is part of Intel’s commitment to elevate K-12 education worldwide by giving teachers the tools and resources they need. Intel ensures that Intel Teach is making a difference in classrooms by working with independent evaluators from around the world. Intel Teach promotes standards-aligned, problem- and project-based approaches to learning. Courses help teachers transform instruction to engage students in deeply relevant ways, including appropriate use of technology, Web 2.0, and social networking for learning, creativity, and communication.

In the US, as part of the STEM focus, the Intel foundation funds a teacher professional development course, Intel® Math Program. This is an 80 hour course for K-8 teachers who teach math. The course is collaboratively taught by a practicing mathematician and a mathematics educator. One of the goals of Intel Math is that teacher participants deepen their own understanding of math through problem solving.

Intel holds a week-long conference, the Educator Academy, where select government officials and educators from around the world participate in panel discussions, presentations, and workshops with a goal of improving math and science education. Since 1997, this conference has enabled attendees from over 45 countries drive improvement in their mathematics and science education by promoting inquiry- and project-based teaching and learning.