Sessions
Student Empowerment for Community Transformation at the iEARN Conference
Juliet Tracy Nansubuga
Gayaza High School
Juliet Tracy is an enthusiastic and experienced teacher, currently teaching at Gayaza High School, an all girls School in Uganda East Africa. She is passionate about youth empowerment and development. Throughout her career, Juliet Tracy has engaged her learners in various project activities through different clubs. Such activities won...Read Full Bio
Juliet tracy Nansubuga
Juliet Tracy is an enthusiastic and experienced teacher, currently teaching at Gayaza High School, an all girls School in Uganda East Africa. She is passionate about youth empowerment and development. Throughout her career, Juliet Tracy has engaged her learners in various project activities through different clubs. Such activities won her a scholarship in 2016 to participate in Pan-African Youth Leadership Program as youth mentor from Uganda.
Since then, she has embarked on transformational voluntary community activities. She has designed, coordinated and implemented projects with young people both on national and international level. She is an advocate for change in the curriculum and pedagogy in her country Uganda, facilitates capacity building sessions for in-service teachers around the country. It is that passion and experience that she is coming with in iEARN to share experience with the like-minds. Currently she is participating in Girl Rising and Civic Projects.
Session Description
The session explores the opportunities and skills for engaging high school students in community development projects/activities and the benefits or skills students acquire. We will briefly share about our project under CIVICS, when we carried out a Community Cancer Awareness and Screening Project with the students before engaging in a discussion on designing community projects.
What will educators learn and be able to do at the end of the session?
- To unearth the potential that the youth have to transform their communities.
- To make young people aware that they do not have to wait until they are 40 years to bring change in our communities.
- To emphasize the power of collaboration
Additional Session Information
Discussion Questions:
How do we come up with community projects/How do we create empathy among our learner towards the community challenges?
How do we mobilize resources to reach out to the identified need?
How do we ensure active participation of all members?
How do we carry out effective evaluation and reporting of the activity?
Of what benefit is the activity to the participating members and/or the institution?