About us | Green Fox Academy

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.

Our mentors can help you 1on1 or in a group when you're stuck with a problem. This means that you can learn faster and start your IT career sooner than with traditional training methodology. The aim is to have the skills you need for your first IT job by the end of the course.

It is important to highlight that our mentors do not solve the problem for you, they just help you get to the next step. It works similarly to the way coaching works. We can help you develop the mindset and skills enabling you to solve problems on your own, as IT companies are looking for people who can work independently on the tasks they are given.

You, your fellow students and the mentors are in the classroom together. So when – after the material review (an interactive session where you work together to clarify theory, model common mistakes and solve the problem posed) – you are working on the assignments, you can ask your mentors for help immediately if you get stuck. As we mentioned above, mentors will not solve the problem for you, but rather help you find the solution.

You are all together in the virtual space. After the material review, you work on assignments together, or for an hour or two a day on your own, without a mentor. However, it is important that we leave a separate channel (e.g. a Zoom breakout room) open where you can talk 1on1 with your mentors, who will help you with screen sharing if needed. So the mentor is always available online, even if they are not physically present.

• You get regular guidance and support
  
• It is easier to acquire the necessary knowledge
• You get encouragement and motivation
• The course is practice-oriented
• You continuously get personal feedback on your progress, your mindset and the code you've written
• You will see how people more senior than you approach and solve problems
• You can acquire independent problem-solving skills, which will also accompany you in your future job
• You will get opportunities to build professional relationships