Intel® Teach courses in New York State and graduate credit offered through New
York Institute of Technology and New York State Teacher Centers
Explore 21st century learning concepts
CCSS and APPR Aligned
Engaging online courses for K–12 educators
Elements courses
help K–12 teachers of all subjects learn to engage students with digital
learning, including digital content, Web 2.0, social networking, and online
tools and resources. Intel Teach professional development empowers
teachers to integrate technology effectively into their existing curriculum,
focusing on their students’ problem solving, critical thinking, and
collaboration, which are precisely the skills required in the high tech,
networked society in which we live.
Intel® Teach Elements courses are, just-in-time professional
development that can be
experienced anytime, anywhere. Each course takes five weeks to complete. Each
week participants complete one of five modules. Each module contains: eLearning,
online discussions, and action planning. Educators who successfully complete
course requirements are recommended for one inservice credit.
Courses
Projects
Based Approaches
Using specific classroom
scenarios, teachers explore characteristics and benefits of Project Based
Learning (PBL). Throughout the course, teachers consider their own teaching
practice as they follow a teacher new to project-based learning who
discusses strategies with a mentor teacher. They also consider the ways
that technology supports project-based approaches. Planning and project
design modules guide teachers through organizing the curriculum, the
classroom, technology, and students for successful 21st century
projects. The assessment module demonstrates strategies for assessing
students’ 21st century skills throughout an open-ended project. The course
offers opportunities to apply the PBL concepts with action planning
exercises.
Download the syllabus:
http://educate.intel.com/download/K12/elements/pbl/Project_Based_Syllabus.pdf
Assessment
in the 21st Century Classroom
Assessment in 21st Century
Classrooms is an interactive e-learning experience that offers an in-depth
look at assessment that meets the needs of 21st century teaching and
learning. In this course, teachers see how assessment strategies can
benefit their teaching practices and their students’ learning. They learn
how to plan, develop, and manage student-centered assessment. They follow
three teachers who are implementing embedded and ongoing assessment
methods in their classrooms. The course offers opportunities to apply
the assessment concepts with action planning exercises.
Download the syllabus:
http://educate.intel.com/download/K12/elements/assess/Elements_Assessment_Syllabus.pdf
Collaboration
in the Digital Classroom
Collaboration in the Digital
Classroom is an interactive e-learning experience that offers an in-depth
look at collaboration with a focus on online collaborative tools. In this
course, teachers see how collaboration helps students develop 21st century
thinking skills, deepen content understanding, and prepare them for the
global world. Teachers learn how to plan and manage collaboration
activities that integrate online collaborative tools increasingly part of
our globally connected workplaces. They follow two teachers as they implement collaborative
experiences in their classrooms. The course offers opportunities to apply
the collaboration concepts with action planning exercises.
Download the syllabus:
http://educate.intel.com/download/K12/elements/Collaborate/ElementsCollaborationSyllabus.pdf
Thinking
Critically With Data
Thinking Critically with Data is
an interactive e-learning course that examines critical thinking with a
focus on data analysis in our information-rich world. In this course,
teachers explore practical skills and strategies to draw on when teaching
students to think critically about the information around them. Teachers
will understand how to design student projects and assessments that
address critical thinking skills when collecting and analyzing data.
Additionally, they will see how technology can support students’
collection, organization, and presentation of data. The course also offers
practical tips for implementing projects that ask students to think
critically with data.
Download the syllabus:
http://educate.intel.com/download/K12/elements/data/Elements_Data_Syllabus.pdf
Inquiry
in the Science Classroom
Inquiry in the Science Classroom
is an e-learning course for teachers of students in 3rd to 8th grades
(ages 9 to 13) that will explain and demonstrate the inquiry process in
depth with interactive activities and locally relevant classroom examples.
The course will build a foundation for inquiry and provide the
rationale and research basis, common misconceptions, and specific
strategies for inquiry as part of any science learning, regardless of the
science discipline. It will promote best practices for improving
scientific inquiry and will help both the teacher with weak science
inquiry background but it will also reinforce teachers more experienced
with inquiry.
Download the syllabus:
https://educate.intel.com/download/K12/elements/inquire/Elements_Inquiry_Syllabus.pdf
Educational
Leadership in the 21st Century
Educational Leadership in the
21 st Century provides an interactive e-learning experience
to support exploration and discussion of school leadership in our
students’ technological 21st century world. School leaders review best
practices, examine leadership behaviors, and develop strategies to better
support their teachers. They follow two administrators who work together
to better use technology to support teachers and improve
student achievement. Participants discuss ideas and strategies with other
leaders in the course and apply them to their own practice. Extension
activities provide opportunities to explore more in depth topics of
interest.
Download the syllabus:
http://educate.intel.com/download/K12/elements/lead/ElementsLeadershipSyllabus.pdf
Moving into Mobile Learning
Moving into Mobile Learning is an e-learning course for teachers that explains and demonstrates the implementation of mobile learning with interactive activities and locally relevant classroom examples. The course helps teachers transition to mobile learning with background research, planning strategies, and suggested technology apps and online tools.
Download the syllabus:
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/program/education/us/en/documents/elements/mobile/Elements-ML1-Syllabus.pdf
Creativity in the Mobile Classroom
Creativity in the Mobile Classroom is an e-learning course for teachers that explains and demonstrates the development of creative thinking skills through a personalized, mobile learning environment. The course helps teachers transition to a personalized learning environment with background research, planning strategies, and suggested technology apps and online tools. It offers suggestions for assessing student learning with mobile devices and managing a mobile learning environment.
Download the syllabus:
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/program/education/us/en/documents/elements/create/Elements-ML2-Syllabus.pdf
Graduate
Credit Option
The option to earn 3 graduate credits at a reduced rate of
$355 from NYIT is available for
taking any three of Elements Course Options. Upon submitting certificates
of completion for three Elements courses, teachers can elect graduate credit
will be entered into EDIT 701 Contemporary Strategies for Technology
Integration in Curriculum.
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NYIT
can help schools to plan and deliver customized versions of all Elements
courses: face-to-face, online, and blended.
For
additional information about Elements Courses visit:
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