Country's best teachers to be selected next week

BEST TEACHERS|AWARDS  

A team of eminent personalities has been assembled to select the winners of the coveted Teachers Making a Difference Awards on Monday next week. 

A team, which will remain incognito, till the scoring and selection of winners are done, will be announced later next week (Monday, November 16, 2020). 

As part of the selection guidelines, the jury members are selected by Partners. 

None of the jury members gets to know the rest of the four-team members, till the Adjudication (selection of winners) Day. 

Each of the juries scores the teachers using New Vision's published stories, and later personally shows up for the awards ceremony. It is at this point that the jury members, get to know the identities of their colleagues. 

The scores from the five jury members are combined and later ranked from the best to the least performing teacher. It is based on this process, that the winners are selected. 

What's is this project? 

The Teachers Making a Difference project is part of the Vision Group's Ugandans Making a Difference initiative launched in 2005. 

The project is funded by the Irish Embassy in Uganda, New Vision, Simba Travelcare, and Trocaire. 

Teachers Making a Difference recognises the most creative and innovative teachers working in difficult environments.  

They mobilise their communities to send and keep their children in school, are creative in using limited resources to deliver quality education, pay attention to co-curricular and vocational studies activities, and also support the neighbouring communities.

The project focuses on all professional teachers innovatively delivering the school curriculum; from pre-primary to advanced level of education, including technical and vocational training institutions.

A total of 60 teachers were profiled in New Vision this year, and of these, the winners will be named. 

Of the winners, six will win an all-expenses-paid trip to Ireland. 

The Partners of the project have also agreed that the winners of last year's competition, who did not travel, will travel with the new team yet to be awarded later this month. 

Their trip to Ireland was put on hold, due to the COVID-19 deadly pandemic which was sweeping through the entire world. 

Air transport has been grounded in many countries and some countries had also barred traveling in and out of their boundaries.