World Teachers Day

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Offline abdussatter

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World Teachers Day
« on: September 04, 2014, 07:02:58 PM »
I am sure you are aware that every year October 5 (since October 5, 1994) is being observed as World Teacher’s Day for emphasizing quality education at all levels.

In 1994, UNESCO proclaimed 5 October World Teachers’ Day, in celebration of the great step made for teachers in 1966 when a special intergovernmental conference convened by UNESCO in Paris in cooperation with the ILO adopted the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers. This recommendation sets forth the rights and responsibilities of teachers, and international standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment, teaching and learning conditions. It also contains many recommendations for teachers’ participation in educational decisions through consultation and negotiation with educational authorities. Since its adoption, the Recommendation has been considered an important set of guidelines to promote teachers’ status in the interest of quality education. (source: http://www.worldteachersday.org/map/index.php/page/index/1)

Why a day for teachers?

World Teachers’ Day held annually on 5 October is a UNESCO initiative, a day devoted to appreciating, assessing, and improving the educators of the world. The real point is to provide a time to look at and address issues pertaining to teachers. Strangely one of the most central, vital professionals to society does not receive the respect it deserves in some parts of the world.

WTD is a natural extension of UNESCO's all year round work of promoting teachers, ensuring that this profession, so vital to the healthy functioning of society, is itself "healthy".  Teachers are a normative indicator of social health. (source: http://www.worldteachersday.org/map/index.php/)

Slogan of the World Teacher’s day (2014): Invest in the future, invest in teachers.
(Md. Dara Abdus Satter)
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Re: World Teachers Day
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2014, 01:34:03 PM »
Thanks for sharing.
Utpal Saha
Lecturer, Dept of EEE
Faculty of Engineering
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