The Intel Teach professional development program, part of the company's $100 million annual investment towards improving the quality of education around the world, has now reached more than 10 million teachers and 300 million students.

On September 7, 2011, Intel Corporation announced that more than 10 million teachers had been trained through Intel Teach, a professional development program focusing on the effective integration of technology into the curriculum to promote problem solving, critical thinking and collaboration skills among students.

Working with national, regional and local educators and governments in more than 70 countries, Intel Teach has, according to Intel estimates, served more than 300 million students worldwide — making it the largest program of its kind. In a number of countries, Intel Teach is the primary technology training program for educators. In Jordan, for example, teachers must complete the Intel Teach program to be eligible for promotion and a 15 percent pay increase.

Independent evaluation of the Intel Teach program revealed participating teachers reported their students were “motivated and involved in the lesson” and that “student projects showed more in-depth understanding” than other comparable work. 

Angie Hillman, an Intel Teach Master Teacher and language arts specialist at Cottonwood Middle School in Arizona, elaborates: “Through my Intel Teach unit, my enthusiasm for teaching has been reborn. In this day and age, with all the state testing and other things weighing heavy on educators, I had lost my focus on how to make learning fun. In creating my Intel unit, I have been able to bring that fun back into my classroom with the highest level of instruction possible for my students.” 

Now in its second decade, Intel Teach relies on a combination of online and face-to-face instruction and continues to build more flexible course offerings over time. To keep Intel Teach on the cutting edge of professional development for teachers, Intel has also created the Intel Engage community and several local-language online educator communities to provide a platform for real-time educator dialogue, learning and idea exchange. To learn more about the Intel Teach program’s impact on teachers, visit www.intel.com/10millionteachers.