Nigerian Teacher, Opeifa wins Top 10 Global Teachers’ Prize 2020

A Nigerian Teacher, Olasunkanmi Opeifa has won this year’s Top 10 Global Teachers’ Prize 2020 award. Should he becomes the overall winner, he would go home with One Million United States Dollars ($1,000,000).

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Opeifa used edutainment to inspire his students to learn.  He makes learning English fun by using dance and rap songs. 

ABOUT OPEIFA

Olasunkanmi Opeifa decided that he would become a teacher at the very young age of just eight years old, and has never wavered in his choice After graduation, he served for a year in a very remote part of the country, Koma, Adamawa, as the only English teacher in a village school of over 200 students, where he helped build the school’s first ever library.

In 2012, he moved to Government Day Secondary School in Karu, a semi-rural area of Abuja serving children of low-income earners in the civil service, market traders and artisans. Students often cannot afford textbooks or the heavily subsidized school fees.

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With more than fifty students per class, he grappled with teaching English to children with poor writing and reading skills and relative poverty, but despite so many challenges, his is a success story.

Olasunkanmi Opeifa has a reputation for innovation and going out of his way to ensure his students receive the best possible tuition, often consulted by other staff on the latest 21st century learning skills, as he uses the flipped classroom model for teaching essay writing, Google Forms or Microsoft Forms for assessment, online videos and e-past questions.

To stimulate his students he has been known to use edutainment/fun-based learning for teaching English language concepts, for example linking essay writing with popular dance steps and, to demonstrate phonology and grammar, he has even taken to rapping and hip-hop songs.

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Having published a book on oral English pedagogy in 2014, he has been invited to speak at seminars organised for teachers. He boosted his school’s recognition and good name winning the 2018 Maltina Teacher of the Year Award as the best teacher in Nigeria and as part of the dividend from this prize a block of six classrooms was built at the school with a library well stocked with books, enabling the school to take up to 300 new students a year.

Olasunkanmi Opeifa (middle) winning the 2018 Maltina Teacher of the Year award
Applicants will be judged on a rigorous set of criteria to identify an extraordinary teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession.

Olasunkanmi says if he becomes overall winner of One million United States Dollars, he would use the funds for a number of projects: a scholarship scheme for the underprivileged, the building of libraries in some of the surrounding rural communities, and the creation of a fully digitised K-12 not-for-profit school in his own community.

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Watch his creative fun-based learning techniques that endeared him to his students>>>

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