The slogan of World Teachers’ Day in 2021 is focused on the theme – “Teachers at heart for education recovery”.
World Teacher’s day: In the last one and a half years, the global pandemic Corona affected the entire system of society. But during this time the most damage has happened to the students. Schools, colleges and universities have been closed for almost a year. Students of all levels have suffered a lot due to the closure of teaching activities. Deliberations are on to make up for the damage done to the educational and training levels of students around the world. This time the theme of World Teacher’s Day-2021 – “Teacher at heart for education recovery” has been kept to restore the academic activity stalled due to Corona epidemic and to compensate for the loss in the past.
World Teacher’s Day is organized every year on 5 October in honor of all the teachers around the world. It commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation on the Status of Teachers, which sets standards regarding the rights and responsibilities of teachers and their early preparation and further education, recruitment, employment and teaching and learning conditions. determines. The Recommendation on the Status of Higher Education Teaching Personnel was adopted in 1997 to fulfill the 1966 recommendation by including teaching personnel in higher education. World Teachers Day is being celebrated since 1994.
Every year there is a slogan ‘World Teacher’s Day’. “Invest in the Future, Invest in Teachers” in 2019 was “Teachers: Leading in Crisis, Redefining the Future” in 2020, aimed at helping teachers play the role they play during the COVID-19 pandemic. was for. The slogan of World Teachers’ Day in 2021 is focused on the theme – “Teachers at heart for education recovery”.
UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay, International Labor Organization (ILO) Director General Guy Ryder, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore and Education International Secretary General David Edwards delivered a joint message on the occasion of World Teachers Day-2021. The message said that “World Teacher’s Day-2021 in the crisis of COVID-19 for one and a half years, under the theme “Teachers at Heart for Education Recovery”, draws attention to the cooperation of teachers to contribute fully to the restoration of the education process. will focus.”
World Teachers Day is organized in partnership with International Labor Organization (ILO), UNICEF and Education International (EI).
UNESCO, ILO, UNICEF and Education International said in a joint statement that “We are not only celebrating World Teachers’ Day to honor every teacher, but we are calling on countries to invest in them and prioritize them in efforts to achieve global education recovery.” So that every learner has access to a qualified and supported teacher. Let’s stand with our teachers!”
At present, the whole world can have a successful education only when the well-being, training, professional development and working conditions of the world’s 71 million teachers are improved. It hinges on investment in teachers and teaching needs, to repair the learning losses suffered by prolonged out-of-school students during the Corona pandemic, and to manage teaching-training closures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This year, the World Teachers’ Day celebrations, which began on October 4, will continue till October 8, 2021. The five-day series of global and regional events will showcase the pandemic’s impact on the teaching profession, highlight effective and promising policy responses, and the steps needed to ensure that the potential of teaching personnel is fully realized. be development. This year, the decision on recommendations related to teaching personnel (CERT) will be taken in the meeting of ILO-UNESCO Joint Experts Committee.
