EDU Community in Australia and New Zealand offer 1 on 1 support to teachers

The GEG Leaders in Australia and New Zealand, along with members of the ANZ Google Certified Innovator and Google Certified Trainer Communities, have launched a website where teachers in the region can request personal 1 on 1 mentoring and coaching.

With so many teachers suddenly expected to work in a remote teaching scenario, the ANZ Edu Community concluded that the best thing they could offer these teachers was personal support. Teachers can visit the website at https://sites.google.com/corp/view/anzedu/home, where they fill out a simple form and one of the Edu Community will get in touch with them to make time for a Meet call.

As the community was thinking about ways they could help teachers impacted by CoVID-19, New Zealand GEG Leader Andrew Corney suggested “It is not lack of resources that is the issue. There are lots of blog posts, quick start guides, and video tutorials about various tools that we can share. What seems to be of more value is one on one support. So I'd like to suggest something that we as a group could do. Think of a call centre where an expert (Trainer, Innovator or GEG Leader) is just one click away from a teacher in need.”

Other members of the community quickly jumped in to help, and they quickly designed a Site, Form and whole backend workflow using Google tools. It’s a great example of how GEGs, Innovators and Trainers can mobilise to support their local communities in times of need.

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