Region 2 Teaching, Learning and Technology Center

Mission Statement

State Initiative Opportunities

LaTEL is Louisiana’s customized implementation of the Intel® Teach Program. The training includes a 1 ½ day face-to-face plus 5-weeks online course that is designed to help teachers deliver more engaging, personal, and dynamic activities to students by connecting with the LA Comprehensive Curriculum with activities that focus on 21st Century Skills.

Effective Technology Integration (ETI) Through Regional Teaching, Learning and Technology Center’s educator’s can enroll in Effective Technology Integration courses. ETI includes six, one-hour long, engaging multimedia modules on best practices for integrating technology into the classroom. Participants learn modules at their own pace.

Proficiency Express, an interactive, technology rich, online professional development initiative, is designed to provide participants with basic technology proficiency skills as they apply them in the development of instructional classroom resources. This twelve week technology professional development can be delivered completely online, or in an online/face-to-face format.

Louisiana INTECH is an intense, content-rich, hands-on, 48-hour staff development program. Louisiana INTECH, an adaptation of the Georgia InTECH model, provides teachers with many examples of effective technology-based strategies that support and enhance curriculum. Teachers learn basic technology skills while focusing on project-based activities that are based upon the Louisiana Content Standards.

i-SAFE is an Internet safety program designed to provide teachers with the necessary skills and curriculum to teach students how to act responsibly while online. This training will enable teachers to order materials free of charge!

INTECH 2 Science is a three and one-half day experience focused on inquiry-based explorations in a student-centered environment and how technology can support this type of learning. Participants attend in teams of 3-4 educators, but can range in grade level and science specialty area.

INTECH 2 Social Studies, a three and one-half day experience, is focused on GIS technology in a student-centered environment and how technology can support this type of learning. INTECH 2 Social Studies is an immersion experience centered on the use of mapping tools such as GPS, GIS and GeoMedia software.

LILI is a project designed to assist librarians in transforming their school library to meet the needs of the students of the 21st Century. The LILI Initiative, which consists of three and half days of face-to-face training, will use the Louisiana Information Literacy Model for Lifelong Learning as a tool for teaching information and technology skills.