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INTEC: Professional Development for Middle School and Secondary Math/Science Teachers

These pages proved a sample of the INTEC Web Course for teachers, staff developers, or administrators seeking to view, and perhaps try on for size a successful model for on-line professional development.
INTEC is recruiting now for the Fall '98 start up. If you are interested in participanting, please write to Dr. Raymond Rose, Project Director at ray@concord.org.

"What's the goal and context of INTEC?" INTEC is web-based, NSF funded professional development project, hosted by the Concord Consortium aimed at building capacity to support inquiry teaching. Its product is a set of inquiry-based lessons that teachers themselves craft.
INTEC uses a hyprid model; both web discussions and local study group meetings form the instructional core. Instead of a centrally structured 'course offering', INTEC provides a netseminar, where rich, class dialogue, both synchronous at sites, as well as in the web-based forums, is valued as central to learning. INTEC recruits groups of teachers at sites, not individuals. Teachers at sites, which may number 4-20, meet in small groups to do planned activities. Several sites are combined to form a cohort of 20-30 teachers who move through the course together.

The curious can read more about INTEC at this link.


At the first of the below links you may view, in a general form, all INTEC content modules.
A complete view of the BioQUEST-EDM module is available for those seeking more detailed information. Each teacher selects ONE content module for in-depth study. INTEC supplies the software or other materials needed to do the module in the teacher's classroom. After an INTRODUCTION to net communications and an activity to explore a PERSONAL SENSE OF INQUIRY, participants select a content module and do in depth work in TOOLS IN SUPPORT OF INQUIRY and INQUIRY IN THE CONTENT AREA. In the PRACTICUM, teachers try out their lessons in their own classes.