Gary Garcia

A professional educator with diverse experience and a strong track record of fostering student-centered curriculum and collaborative learning, Mr. Garcia has been a teacher for twenty years. A teacher with a passion for technology, he has made his passion directed toward training globally competitive students and technologically savvy teachers through his decades-long experience in teacher training. He has handled various levels, from grade school to high school and tertiary levels, inspiring hands-on lessons that fostered a classroom atmosphere that is stimulating, encouraging, and adaptive to the varied needs of students.

He had also coached teachers in integrating technology into the classroom. He had been an Information and Communications Technology coordinator at Saint Pedro Poveda College for seven years. He had also been in charge of the school technology-related support system such as updating the communication dissemination/messaging system and was assigned as the head of the website team committee of the same school. In this capacity, he implemented school-wide systems and procedures to effectively evaluate students' achievement. He found ways how to keep constant communication with students and families regarding academic and behavioral performance and progress. He has instituted some school programs that accurately evaluated data on student performance to effectively adapt changes in the existing curriculum thereby modifying and accommodating differentiated support to the needs and capacity of all students to ensure standards were achieved.

He has collaborated with students, making sure to adapt to their diverse learning styles by exposing them to current trends in technology and the ways they can steer these skills toward the betterment of the living conditions of others in their communities. In teaching these technical skills - from office productivity and its integration to photo and video editing, to web development and programming - he aims to help disseminate the skills that these students can use way beyond the confines of the classroom.

He has collaborated with educators in Asia, having been invited as a speaker locally and internationally at educational technology summits and conferences. Some of these were “The Transforming Presence of Education”, held in the Philippines (February 2010), Google Summit held in Bangladesh (February 2015), “Google for Education - Hangout On Air” (May 2015), EdTechTeam Summit in South Korea (February 2016), APPtitude Apple Training Workshop in Baguio City (October 2016), EdTechTeam Summit in Manila (November 2017), Google Educator Group Leader Summit in Singapore (June 2017), Maker Monday Brainery at US Embassy in Manila (April 2018), and Google for Education Innovator Program Coach for SouthEast Asia 2019 cohort, and the Virtual Innovator Academy coach for 2020 (Sept to Nov 2020). Google Innovator Coach for SEA19 & VIA21.

He likes to connect educators as a GEG Mentor for the APAC region. He also attended the Google Champions in Singapore last September 2023.