professional development for teachers, is set to launch a new gamified platform enabling individual teachers to take charge of their own professional development and Google certifications. The new platform will enable motivated self-starters to upskill themselves and discover new ways to enhance teaching and learning using technology.
Teachers are even choosing to log into PurpleZA on weekends and before dawn to polish up their skills and get new ideas to enhance their teaching, she says. PurpleZA has trained and inspired over 12 500 teachers in person and online. Teachers have completed over 58 000 learning units and 11 500 Google-specific courses on the gamified professional development platform. To date, PurpleZA has supported 260 educators in achieving level-1 Google Certified Educator status, 106 in achieving level-2 Google Certified Educator status, and five having become Google Certified Trainers.