Please share some photos about your World Teachers' Day activities with us! You can simply upload them to our Flickr photostream using our on-line upload form:
Photos already uploaded this year as well as the ones of previous years are available on our Flickr photostream.
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Do you feel that your teachers are doing a great job? Well, why not tell them? Send them one of our e-cards! Just click
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Teachers around the globe are working daily to bring quality education to all pupils. Call attention to this by downloading
and printing our World Teachers' Day 2008 poster in your language now!
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On October 5 each year, teachers’ organisations worldwide mobilise to ensure that the needs of future generations are taken into consideration.
UNESCO inaugurated October 5 as World Teachers’ Day in 1993. This day represents the appreciation displayed for the vital contribution that teachers make to education and development. Since 2000, the international community has made solid progress towards Education For All. Enrolment rates have increased dramatically. However, UNESCO estimates that 18 million more teachers are needed worldwide if universal primary education is to be achieved by 2015.
The shortage of qualified teachers is considered one of the biggest obstacles to achieving this goal. Accordingly, this year’s activities are focused on professional training for quality education. Teachers’ unions around the world are calling on public authorities to develop and provide adequate training programmes - because teachers matter!
Every day, in millions of classrooms around the world, the universal endeavour of teaching and learning takes place. The gift of literacy is passed from one generation to the next, along with love of learning and thirst for knowledge. When knowledge is shared, skills are gained and lives can be changed.
October 5 is World Teachers’ Day, a day set aside by the world community to celebrate teachers and the central role they play in nurturing and guiding infants, children, youth and adults through the life-long learning process.
