LGF, Partners launch Teacher Well-being Tool

The morning of June 28, 2022 was a day like no other at Grand Imperial Royale Hotel in
Kampala as guests assembled for the launch of the Be Well and Teach Well tool. The tool, which
was developed by Luigi Giussani Foundation, Save the Children and Notre Dame University, dug
deep into what defines a teacher’s emotional state, and how external factors such as workload,
support from colleagues, among others, affect teaching/learning.

The function which was graced by Ismael Mulindwa, the director of basic education at the
Ministry of Education and Sports, also attracted other big shots from the Government,
academia and development partners.
While launching the tool, Martin Ariapa, the Luigi Giussani Foundation (LGF) Director of
Research, said the tool, a locally defined and participatory approach for measuring teacher
well-being, was developed through evidence-based research that lasted for over two years.
“We engaged a diverse group of primary school teachers from settlement and non-settlement
contexts in Uganda to co-create the contextually appropriate teacher well-being measurement
tool,” Ariapa said.

Teachers’ well-being affects how teachers feel and function on their jobs, including their
affections, attitudes, and evaluations of their work. To evaluate this, the teacher well-bring tool
was designed as an effort to guide actors on what teacher well-being looks like in low-resource
and crisis contexts so that the stakeholders ensure that they have common understanding of
the importance of teacher well-being and act on them.
Speaking at the event, Luigi Giussani Foundation (LGF) Deputy Executive Director, Gillian
Atuheire noted that the wellbeing being of a teacher plays a big part in learning outcomes.
“Teachers’ wellbeing is learners wellbeing. Therefore, to support a teacher is to support the
development of a nation,” Atuheire said.