Empower a Girl: For Self-Reliance

Empowering Students in speech and reading

By empowering students of Kole Intellectual Forum to foster ownership in their speeches and engage them in growth mindset in reading; Kole Intellectual Forum, at their Institute of Home Economics is giving their students in making choices in their reading materials, making learning interactive with games and technology, and explicitly teaching them skills like "brain talk" to build resilience and confidence.

In practice, they:

• Provide choice and variety: by allowing their students to choose their own reading materials based on their interests and provide access to a wide variety of texts, from novels to magazines.

• Encourage extensive reading that helps their students to build stamina by reading with them in the classroom rather than only assigning it as homework.

• Integrate technology: by using tools like tablets for annotating passages, which can make reading more interactive and engaging.

• Focus on skills: students are taught the skills they need to choose the right text and provide explicit instruction on how words work, including using morphology and Latin roots.

• Make it fun: Incorporate games, physical movement, and rewards to keep reading enjoyable and motivating.

• Promote reading speed: Practice timed reading exercises to improve fluency and speed.

• Establish clarity and purpose: make them to clearly communicate their goals in speech sessions and this has help them to understand the purpose of their work.

• Promote independence: Empower students to take control of their own communication goals instead of relying solely on the caregiver or therapist to motivate them.

Celebratory of national identity and unity displayed

In an actual sense, patriotism is one of the subjects taught at Kole Intellectual Forum’s Institute of Home Economics to display an action that expresses deep love, loyalty, and pride for the students to their nation - Uganda through dancing, with the national flag as a central visual symbol. This act is a powerful and celebratory display of national identity and unity.

By so doing that: it makes the students to display their sense of:

Expression in Patriotism: by publicly demonstrating their national pride, during their weekly assemblies at cultural events and ceremonies

Celebrating their National Identity: by dancing at the assemblies, they highlight their nation's values, history, and its collective identity to its people.

Cultural Performance:  it serves as a vibrant and artistic way to honor the country

Unity and Commemoration: Such performances is meant to bring these students together, by allowing them to connect with their heritage and the shared their values of their nation.