Hello, My name is Eloghene Otiede [nickname Geekelo]. I am a software developer with 8 years of experience. During these years, I have attended a few boot camps, worked on exciting projects, collaborated with stakeholders, and mentored over 150 African females in tech.
I found Scrimba in February 2024 via a LinkedIn post The Scrimba website was listed as a great platform to learn how to code. Since then, I have become fond of the platform's programs, courses, and events. But I’m mostly attracted to Scrimba it resonates with my passion for teaching.
I was raised in a family where almost everyone was a professional teacher and loved to teach. As a result, I was exposed to teaching methodologies, techniques, and tips at a very early age, which eventually inspired me to love and enjoy teaching. I developed a strong passion and skill for breaking down very complex concepts to anyone in a very simple, enjoyable, engaging, and insightful manner. As a result at age 12, I started my teaching journey. I progressed from teaching my neighbor's kids after school for fun to teaching in study groups at the university, and mentoring junior developers, interns, and tech students.
Within three weeks of teaching at age 12, I impressed the neighborhood by teaching a slow learner how to read, write, and spell. That led to a rapid increase from two kids to ten kids.
I have undergone a teacher training course at the Igbenedion University Okada, covering topics like Pedagogy and Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development, Assessment and Evaluation, Differentiation and Inclusion, and more. On my final assessment day, I had over 200 learners seated to listen to me teach on a very complex topic for just thirty minutes. After the session, the Chief Examiner gave a speech commending my ability to break down a complex topic within thirty minutes and my ability to engage everyone by making the topic easy to understand. At the end of the speech, he looked at me and said, "In all you do in life, make sure you teach. The world needs teachers like you". That day, over 80% of the hall was allowed to express how pleased they were with my session as the hall re-echoed with loud applause.
I must say I have followed that Chief Examiner's advice, by further developing my teaching skills, and by making coding very easy to understand for beginners through my YouTube channel, at Eloti Designs (a tech company) where I spent four years as a tech instructor and code reviewer, and through an online-based exclusive self-owned organization - known as Females in Tech, where I have taught 150 females for free, to learn to code and enjoy coding.
At the moment, I am thrilled by Scrimba's goal to help learners get personalized coding guidance, resolve queries in one-on-one mentor calls, benefit from code reviews, and access exclusive coding workshops. I believe joining Scrimba’s Teacher Talent Program will allow me to do more by participating in helping learners at Scrimba. I look forward to bringing to Scrimba, my passion, skills, and experience as an experienced teacher and a skilled software developer.
Hello, My name is Eloghene Otiede [nickname Geekelo]. I am a software developer with 8 years of experience. During these years, I have attended a few boot camps, worked on exciting projects, collaborated with stakeholders, and mentored over 150 African females in tech.
I found Scrimba in February 2024 via a LinkedIn post The Scrimba website was listed as a great platform to learn how to code. Since then, I have become fond of the platform's programs, courses, and events. But I’m mostly attracted to Scrimba it resonates with my passion for teaching.
I was raised in a family where almost everyone was a professional teacher and loved to teach. As a result, I was exposed to teaching methodologies, techniques, and tips at a very early age, which eventually inspired me to love and enjoy teaching. I developed a strong passion and skill for breaking down very complex concepts to anyone in a very simple, enjoyable, engaging, and insightful manner. As a result at age 12, I started my teaching journey. I progressed from teaching my neighbor's kids after school for fun to teaching in study groups at the university, and mentoring junior developers, interns, and tech students.
Within three weeks of teaching at age 12, I impressed the neighborhood by teaching a slow learner how to read, write, and spell. That led to a rapid increase from two kids to ten kids.
I have undergone a teacher training course at the Igbenedion University Okada, covering topics like Pedagogy and Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development, Assessment and Evaluation, Differentiation and Inclusion, and more. On my final assessment day, I had over 200 learners seated to listen to me teach on a very complex topic for just thirty minutes. After the session, the Chief Examiner gave a speech commending my ability to break down a complex topic within thirty minutes and my ability to engage everyone by making the topic easy to understand. At the end of the speech, he looked at me and said, "In all you do in life, make sure you teach. The world needs teachers like you". That day, over 80% of the hall was allowed to express how pleased they were with my session as the hall re-echoed with loud applause.
I must say I have followed that Chief Examiner's advice, by further developing my teaching skills, and by making coding very easy to understand for beginners through my YouTube channel, at Eloti Designs (a tech company) where I spent four years as a tech instructor and code reviewer, and through an online-based exclusive self-owned organization - known as Females in Tech, where I have taught 150 females for free, to learn to code and enjoy coding.
At the moment, I am thrilled by Scrimba's goal to help learners get personalized coding guidance, resolve queries in one-on-one mentor calls, benefit from code reviews, and access exclusive coding workshops. I believe joining Scrimba’s Teacher Talent Program will allow me to do more by participating in helping learners at Scrimba. I look forward to bringing to Scrimba, my passion, skills, and experience as an experienced teacher and a skilled software developer.