A young Nigerian woman named Adefemi Adeola Adedunke has bagged 6.5 million naira and training in the United Kingdom after winning the Teacher of the Year award.
Adefemi Adeola is a teacher at Keke Senior High School, Agege, Lagos who won the 9th edition 2023 Maltina Teacher of the Year competition. She was rewarded with a cash prize of N6.5m, 15 million naira immediately given to her and 1 million naira annually.
Additionally, she will be rewarded with all-expense-paid capacity development training in the United Kingdom, and the fund will also build either a fully equipped computer laboratory or a six-classroom block worth N20 million for her school in her honor.
Adeola was also nominated for the Global Teacher Prize in 2022 for her contribution to the growth of her students in underdeveloped areas. When she first qualified as a teacher, She was deployed to an underserved community in the highest-populated local government region in Lagos, Nigeria.
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The public school, where Adeola was to teach, was labeled “low-performing” due to three years of poor performance in a regional examination and the general perception that education was not valued in the community.
Through her previous experiences working as a broadcaster and serving in the National Youth Service Corps, Adeola understood how extracurricular activities, after-school classes, and competitions can help feed academic achievement.
To boost the school’s academic performance, she decided to launch the EVERY CHILD COUNTS campaign, creating subject-associated clubs that students joined based on their interests. She won the award for the Global Top 50 Teachers in the World.
With hard work, Adeola has helped her students achieve more than some ever thought possible. In five years, they won 103 different international, national, and state competitions, including the Commonwealth Day Inter-Schools Competition, the United Nations Poetry Competition, and the World Water Day Competition.
She has also won the CreditDirect Outstanding Teacher of the Year and the Junior Chamber International Outstanding Young Person in Nigeria Award. In 2020 she won the Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Award and was also awarded Overall Best Teacher in Lagos State Education District 1.
Adeola is not only a remarkable teacher but also a respected contributor to academic discourse. She also holds esteemed accolades including being a Fulbright fellow, a certified Microsoft Innovative Educator, and a distinguished judge for The Royal Commonwealth Essay Competition.
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