Grace Olive Musingo Nabuduwa

Biography

Nabuduwa Grace Olive Musingo is currently the Head teacher of Ngora Girls secondary school in Uganda

Previously she served as Head teacher of Rubongi Secondary school in Tororo, Uganda for 10 years where she also served as Treasurer for Tororo SESEMAT region a program for promoting the teaching of Mathematics and Science in the country

Nabuduwa Grace Olive Musingo has taught for 29 years at secondary school in various great schools like St Mary’s College Kisubi, Nabisunsa Girls Secondary school before rising to the level of Deputy Head teacher and Head teacher.

She holds a Masters of Education Degree, Bachelor of Arts with Education degree from Makerere University and Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management from Uganda Management Institute and a certificate in Educational Leadership and Management from Aga Khan University.

She has taught in several secondary schools as well as at Makerere University and Kyambogo University on Part time in Sociology of Education (School of Education).

 She has facilitated her staff and students at secondary school level to participate in a number of international collaborative projects through the international Educational and Resource Network ( iEARN) platform (www.iearn.org ). These projects include:

• Finding solutions to Hunger ,Poverty and Inequality
• Water is Life
• Envision my Dream World

This was because of the realization that Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) was the only way to the twenty first century global world. Since then, despite the fact that the school was rural based with challenges of technology, she had to find ways to introduce ICT in the teaching learning process with small groups of students through Project Based Learning (PBL).

It has been worthwhile the effort to enable students and teachers in rural school to get acquainted with ICT to enable them to be competitive.

Nabuduwa Grace is also involved in initiatives to promote Girl Child education using Media and ICT . For example she trains students in Media Literacy to be able to voice challenges to Girl Child education through media. The girls have been able to share their stories with positive results.

As a head teacher she has encouraged teachers to be ICT compliant by organizing training workshops for teachers on basics of ICT. As a result some teachers have been able to integrate ICT in the teaching learning process.

She has made it easier for teachers and students to participate in implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goals with help of ICT via collaborative projects and Project Lased Learning (PBL).