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July 11, 2001
K-12 TEACHERS AT UNM TO LEARN TECHNOLOGY SKILLS THROUGH INTEL TEACH TO THE
FUTURE PROGRAM
K-12 teachers from across the state are completing an intensive course in technology
through the Intel Teach to the Future Program directed by the University of
New Mexico College of Education (COE) Technology Education Center.
A total of 120 "master teachers" from across the state will receive
the training this summer during six weeklong courses. The program began in late
May in Hobbs and was also offered in Clovis, Las Cruces and Santa Fe. Teachers
from Albuquerque, Belen, Bernalillo and Los Lunas are in training at UNM Monday,
July 9 through Friday, July 13, and Monday, July 23, through Friday, July 27.
COE Technology Education Center Director Bill Bramble says the summer courses
are a "train the trainer project." The master teachers are each charged
with training an additional 40 teachers during the next two years. Some 5,800
New Mexico teachers will eventually benefit from the course, the largest project
of this nature to date in the state.
"Every master teacher who completes the course will receive a high end
laptop computer, software and a $5,000 grant to improve computer technology
in the classroom," said Smith Frederick, project coordinator for UNM, adding
that all teachers participating will receive valuable benefits.
In December, UNM received a $109,000 Intel grant to launch the Intel Teach
to the Future Program, specifically designed to help teachers better use technology
in the classroom. The grant also established Intel's New Mexico Regional Training
Agency in the COE Technology Education Center. The second floor of the center
has a lab devoted to the Intel Teach to the Future Program.
Bramble says the UNM directed project also receives support from Microsoft.
Approximately $2 million in technology, education, and related support will
be awarded via Intel and its partners to the state of New Mexico over a two-year
period.
"I am delighted with the progress to date of the Intel Teach to the Future
initiative, and wish to recognize the hard work of Bill Bramble and Smith Frederick,"
said Viola E. Florez, dean of the UNM College of Education.
"I am particularly pleased with the fact that we have been asked to conduct this intensive professional development project on a statewide level - with an even greater number of teachers than was originally envisioned in the grant - because the need for professional development of this caliber across our state is enormous," Florez adds.
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