After way too much procrastinating, I've earned my Google Educator Certificate! Now what?
The training that I was a part of was geared toward becoming a Google Certified Trainer. This means that I would be endorsed by Google to train other teachers in using Google's tools. As I have said before, my lack of experience leading professional development sessions puts me at a real disadvantage on this road, and further, it doesn't really fit with my role as a teacher.
In my opinion, as a teacher, the next step is to focus on applying to the Google Teacher Academy. I think this route fits much more with my actual job, plus, who wouldn't want to spend a long weekend in Mountain View at Google's headquarters with a bunch of exciting people? Since those dates and applications haven't been released yet for this year, my new focus needs to be increasing my "Googliness" so that I am the type of person Google is looking for in their selection process. This means continuing some of the things I already do, but increasing the deliberateness with which it is done. I need to become a bit more active online and in professional groups, and put myself out there a bit more to prepare myself for the application process when it rolls around this spring.
Blogger, Twitter, YouTube, etc., here I come.
Hmm... well congratulations on your accomplishments. Um, don't think I have nice thing to say, nothing personal not much of a fan of google.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Mr. Knull, Thats really cool that you are pursuing your 20 time and succeeding. I hope you continue too work on getting into google teacher academy.
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