Hansatu Adegbite urges teachers to embrace AI for future-ready education
Abuja - 26 October 2025.
Hansatu Adegbite called on teachers to integrate Artificial Intelligence into daily practice to stay relevant and deliver better outcomes. Her message was clear: AI isn't a threat. It's an enabler that helps teachers teach with more precision, less busywork, and more time for real learning.
Speaking at the TrainDTRAINER Teacher Summit 2025, she outlined how AI can personalise instruction, automate routine tasks, and spark creativity. The goal isn't to replace teachers, but to give them leverage.
Deconstruct the old, define the new
Adegbite challenged educators to rethink traditional methods. Deconstructing old models doesn't mean discarding core values; it means expressing them with modern tools that meet today's learners where they are.
She urged a shift away from rote learning toward interactive, tech-enabled approaches that build critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving. This is how classrooms prepare students for a tech-centered world.
Practical moves for teachers this term
- Start small: pick one lesson per week to augment with AI. Examples: generate quiz variations, draft a lesson outline, or co-create writing prompts.
- Personalize feedback: use AI to draft comment banks, then edit in your voice. Faster, more consistent, still human.
- Cut admin time: draft rubrics, summarize meetings, format lesson plans, and prepare parent updates. Keep final review with you.
- Foster creativity: let students use AI for brainstorming, storyboards, or first drafts. Require checkpoints, reflections, and citations of tools used.
- Teach AI literacy and ethics: discuss bias, privacy, and academic integrity. Ask learners to label AI-assisted work.
- Use class data wisely: analyze exit tickets for common gaps and group needs (no personal data). Adjust instruction the next day.
For high-level guidance on safety and ethics, see UNESCO's work on AI in education (policy recommendations and practical guardrails).
Capacity and policy signals
Adegbite also called on policymakers and school leaders to invest in digital infrastructure, teacher training, and inclusive policies so every classroom benefits, not just a few. Access matters as much as intent.
In a goodwill message, the Universal Basic Education Commission's Executive Secretary, Aisha Garba, represented by Dr. Osom Osom, outlined plans to introduce digital pedagogy and train 875,000 teachers across public schools. That scale can reset classroom practice nationwide.
Adedayo Benjamins-Laniyi, Pioneer Mandate Secretary, Women Affairs Secretariat, praised the summit for positioning educators as catalysts for innovation in education. She noted teachers remain the backbone of national development, and that digital competence is essential for an inclusive, progressive society.
Convener Dr. Onyekachi Onwudike-Jumbo explained that TrainDTRAINER was built to strengthen teacher and school leader capacity through continuous professional development and digital literacy. The initiative aims to give educators the tools and confidence to integrate technology effectively.
She added that the future of education will be built through collaboration among educators, policymakers, and the private sector-moving beyond talk to practical frameworks schools can implement.
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