Blended Learning
The Level 1 and 2 Google Certified Educator Qualifications are internationally recognised and are therefore a highly sought after certification for teachers around the world.
As the COVID - 19 pandemic closed schools around the world, and teachers were forced to teach remotely, they began to crave these qualifications even more. In 2020 alone, my team of facilitators and I helped 357 teachers in South Africa get certified and in 2021 we helped another 250.
As teachers became more familiar with online platforms, we started developing an online model for our Level 1 and 2 Google Certified Educator Bootcamps which were originally run in person. This model drastically changed the way we delivered the content and we increased the course from 2 days, to 2 weeks.
The Bootcamps now follow a blended approach to learning, where the attendees have the chance to work through multiple resources and assignments in a Google Classroom in their own time. This gives them the time to explore the tools and become familiar with features or tools they may not yet have discovered.
The second week of the Bootcamp is a series of online facilitator led sessions run by the Google Certified Trainers on our team. These sessions are the perfect platform for the attendees to get some top tips and tricks on how to use the Google Workspace for Education tools in their daily teaching and learning, and to improve their knowledge in preparation for the exam.
Take a tour through exactly what these Bootcamps look like in the video from our social media.