At Green Fox Academy, we use the flipped classroom model, blending traditional classroom teaching methods with the opportunities offered by digitalisation. Our video tutorials are worked through by students independently at home. This is followed the next morning by a joint interactive coding session led by mentors, where we look for answers to questions, try out the tools of the current topic through practical examples, correct misunderstandings and clarify the more complex parts.
The course is based on a mentoring framework. In practice this means that students spend 80% of their time working on coding tasks and projects with mentoring support. Each class is assigned an experienced programming mentor. Moreover, many of them are career changers, too, so they know exactly what our students are struggling with.
We adjust our training methods and curriculum to market needs (e.g. using agile methodologies) to ensure that our students acquire marketable knowledge. Our training methodology enables us to represent the future working environment: In the second half of the course, our students work on real projects, in teams, and as the course progresses, mentoring time is continuously reduced, so junior programmers graduating from the course are able to confidently and independently learn new skills and use new technologies, which is of key importance in the fast-changing IT branch.
