JOHN GOODIER

I can supply outstanding references to support my Google / Educational skill set and lead classroom support. I have 8 years experience working as a freelance computer lead and 10 years experience working in schools with Google Cloud. I have been a Google for Education Certified Educator for 7 years. I now regularly work with around 420+ children a week ranging from year 1 to year 6 and covering all aspects of the computing curriculum from coding to website design. See My Work for more details.

My background is business computing and I have over 28 years of business IT experience and moved into education about 18 years ago when the company I was working for, Linetex Computers, started to support school’s IT. I worked on projects all around the country including Birmingham and London. I became self-employed over 14 years ago and have been working in education ever since.

My first role after becoming self-employed was upgrading old IT systems, servers, PC’s and network infrastructure, but around 8 years ago I started to support teaching staff with the Computing curriculum in primary schools. Having moved all my work to Google Cloud around 11 years ago I could see the potential of moving schools onto a 21st century learning platform, allowing children to work in ways that would have seemed impossible only a few years ago.

I feel that the experience I have in graphic design, video editing, website design and electronics has given me somewhat of an advantage with the new and more challenging computer curriculum.

Taking a look around THE LEARNING ZONE will give you a much better read of the type of work I do with primary schools.