My name is Naturinda Liniaus, and I am an Accountant by profession with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Gulu University. Currently, I am proudly serving as a Teach for Uganda fellow at Mugema Primary School, where I am teaching English and Numeracy to the bright young minds of…

Having gone through a lengthy process of screening, Zoom sessions, and interviews, I received an invitation to attend a two-week residential training institute at Bishop Willis Iganga. …

By Katono Catherine Many communities still associate an educator’s visit at their residences to problems, such as reporting an obstinate student or issues relating to the poor health of their child. From an educator’s view, a number of equally significant practices have eclipsed the role home visits play, and yet…

I embarked on this fellowship program this year in early January following an intensive one-month training during which the fellows were taken through the things to do while in the classroom and outside. Nervousness characterized my first day in the field, being uncertain of whatever was awaiting me, but the…

My primary classroom is big but has 34 girls and 24 boys. The first time I entered it one Monday morning in October, I didn’t see a single chart on its beautiful walls. The class has a blackboard and the teacher’s table. The learners were noisy and pieces of paper…

Many a time, we talk about inclusiveness as one of the most primal attributes of inclusive education but digress from it. As an educator, I have encountered unique behavioural traits in a few of my students that are always regarded as trivial in many of our traditional classroom settings. Attention-seeking…

Self-Reflection as A Leader In my fellowship journey, there is a point in time where I found myself stressed over piled-up tasks and this was because I would voluntarily postpone tasks and end up not attending to them. …

Undebatably, the aspect of coaching and mentoring is uncommon in the Ugandan context. For the past few days, I spent quality time making phone calls to a few close friends in my circle and tried to find out if coaching or mentorship programs really featured in their different career paths…

It is now the 2nd week since Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU) announced industrial action and asked teachers to boycott their working stations which have definitely affected learners more than teachers. In the past 1 week, I have visited together with colleagues over 80 public primary schools in Kayunga, Mayuge…