Tara Learning are now an Irish Google Cloud Partner together we hope to bring the best resources available to education, Supporting Innovative Learning
Tara Learning is a Google Cloud partner focused on Google Workspace for Education dedicated to helping schools, colleges and FET's increase communication and collaboration with Google Workspace. Together we can explore what the future of education can look like.
Google Workspace for Education
Google Workspace for Education empowers your school community with simple and flexible tools that cultivate collaboration and communication, and now comes with a choice of four editions.
Which Google Workspace?
Our staff at Tara Learning would be delighted to explain the benefits of each edition and help you to choose the one that would benefit your school or college.
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Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals
A free suite of tools that enables collaborative learning opportunities on a secure platform.
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Google Workspace for Education Standard
Advanced security and analytics tools to help reduce risks and mitigate threats with increased visibility and control across your learning environment.
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Teaching and Learning Upgrade
Enhanced educator tools to help enrich communication and class experiences, and guide academic integrity.
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Google Workspace for Education Plus
A comprehensive solution with advanced security and analytics, enhanced teaching and learning features, and more.
Find the right Chromebook for your school
Versatile form factors that support all learning - Chromebooks come in a range of shapes, sizes, and price points. With our experience of the Education Sector Tara Learning can help direct you in choosing the appropriate Chromebook for your school.
Long-life battery Starts in seconds Easy to use Built-in virus protection
Chromebooks have reimagined every feature from the ground up to be smarter, faster, and more secure. That means pairing built-in security with an all-day battery, so you can teach and learn from anywhere. We at Tara Learning can assist you in choosing the correct Chromebooks.
Fast boot time and auto-updates
Chromebooks update automatically in the background and they start up fast so they feel like new long after you've bought them. Plus, with the best of Google built-in, the Chromebook App Hub at your fingertips, and multiple layers of security, you can be sure they'll continue to feel fresh.
All-day battery life
Chromebooks come with long battery life so students can learn, create, and collaborate completely cord free.
Upgrade to easy
Chromebooks boot up in seconds and update automatically so they're always working at peak performance. No long load times, no confusing setup. Just flip it open and get going online or off.
Built-in security
With Chromebooks, safety is top of mind: Your device updates every six weeks to provide the latest protection from security threats. Every Chromebook goes through a verified boot process when it starts and automatically returns to a safer version if malicious changed are detected.
Tara Training for Google
Where teaching and learning come together
Google Classroom in your all-in-one place for teaching and learning. Our easy-to-use and secure tool helps educators manage measure, and enrich learning experiences. Tara Learning will help you integrate the best of Google Classroom tailored to your school.
Our trainers at Tara Learning are Google Certified Trainers. Staff at Tara Learning are experts in delivering a first class introduction to the tools available in Google for Education Workspaces to enhance the education experience in the School environment. They train fellow educators on how to make the most of Google tools and support them as they redefine learning through the use of technology.
Save Files offline on mobile
You do not need to be connected to a Wi-Fi or mobile network, you can still view and edit files, including: Google Docs. Google Sheets.
Classroom engagement report template
As a Google Workspace administrator, you can see usage trends and monitor Classroom user activity in your organization. For example, you can see the number of active classes and the posts created by teachers and students.
Google benefits for Education
Built for Collaboration Work simultaneously in the same document with the whole class or connect face-to-face with Google Meet.
Easy to use Anyone in your school community can get up and running with Classroom in minutes.
All-in-one place Bring all your leaning tools together and manage multiple classes in one central destination.
Access from anywhere Empower teaching and learning from anywhere, on any device, and give your class more flexibility and mobility.
Enhance and elevate class content with a host of educational resources and curricula.
Chromebook App Hub: Find Chromebook apps and ideas on how to use them in the classroom to enrich class content; many apps integrate with Google Workspace for Education apps.
Training and Professional Development: Flexible professional development resources to meet school’s evolving needs—and make learning more effective, efficient, and engaging.
Teacher Center: Free, tailored tips and training for educators to create meaningful impact with technology.
Applied Digital Skills: Teach and learn practical digital skills for the future of work using our free project-based video curricula.
Be Internet Awesome: Help students understand the fundamentals of digital citizenship and safety so they can explore the online world with confidence.
CS First: Make coding fun and easy with CS First, a free computer science curricula that makes coding simple to teach and fun to learn—no CS experience required.
Educational Consultancy and Advisory Services
Educational Consultancy Services
Since 2015, Tara Learning has built up an impressive track record of working with clients in a consulting and advisory role at school, regional, national and international levels. Our education consultants have worked in a range of national and international educational contexts, and all are former teachers, school and college leaders, system administrators, school inspectors and policy makers who have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of all sectors within the Irish Educational system.
Tara Learning provides consultancy, advisory and research services to our clients in a wide range of educational areas such as:
- Policy development and operationalisation
- System and organisation needs analysis in areas such as Organisational and Functional Design
- Learner and stakeholder voice capture
- Project design, management and evaluation.
- Academic Supervision within projects and programmes
- Digital innovation, digital leadership and project implementation
- The introduction of new digital technologies and platforms which support teaching, learning, assessment and administration within educational settings, underpinned by robust and user-friendly data analysis tools
- Evaluation of provision and support for teaching, learning and assessment across all education sectors, both within national and international contexts
- Research and Reporting on the structure and functioning of Learning Organisations
- Sustainability, agility and resilience within Learning Organisations in the context of changing national and international educational environments
- Evaluation of provision and support for teaching, learning and assessment across all education sectors, both within national and international contexts
- Research and Reporting on the structure and functioning of Learning Organisations
- Sustainability, agility and resilience within Learning Organisations in the context of changing national and international educational environments
Education Coaching Services
Tara Learning offers a personalised and customised education coaching services to school and college leaders, team leaders and to leadership teams within Learning Organisations across all education sectors.
Our education coaching philosophy for School and Team leaders is informed by the BASIC coaching model, developed by Andy Buck, 2020:
‘A one-to-one conversation that focuses on the enhancement of learning through increasing self-awareness and a sense of personal responsibility, where the coach facilitates the self-directed learning of the coachee, through questioning, active listening, appropriate challenge and, when needed, practical guidance in a supportive and encouraging environment that leaves the coachee feeling clearer and more optimistic about the future’.
Our education coaching philosophy for School and Team leaders is informed by the BASIC coaching model, developed by Andy Buck, 2020:
‘A one-to-one conversation that focuses on the enhancement of learning through increasing self-awareness and a sense of personal responsibility, where the coach facilitates the self-directed learning of the coachee, through questioning, active listening, appropriate challenge and, when needed, practical guidance in a supportive and encouraging environment that leaves the coachee feeling clearer and more optimistic about the future’.
…while our Team Coaching method is informed by Peter Hawkins, 2014:
‘Enabling a team to function at more than a sum of its parts, by clarifying its mission and improving its external and internal relationships. It is different therefore from coaching team leaders on how to lead their teams, or coaching individuals in a group setting’.
