World Teachers’ Day is held annually on 5 October to celebrate all teachers around the globe. It is a day to celebrate how teachers are transforming education but also to reflect on the support they need to fully deploy their talent and vocation, and to rethink the way ahead for the profession globally.
This year’s World Teachers’ Day highlights the need to address the systemic challenges teachers face and to establish a more inclusive dialogue about their role in education. The 2024 celebrations will focus on “Valuing teacher voices: towards a new social contract for education”, underscoring the urgency of calling for and attending to teachers’ voices to address their challenges but, most importantly, to acknowledge and benefit from the expert knowledge and input that they bring to education.
UKFIET has published a range of blogs in the last year alone about the important role teachers play in securing the right to education:
World Teachers’ Day: Valuing teacher voices in research
Palestinian education under attack in Gaza: Teachers and steadfastness
What is needed to improve teacher professional development initiatives?
Four takeaways on refugee teachers from the Global Report on Teachers
Teacher professional development in Africa – A decolonial synthesis of the research evidence
The education crisis in Myanmar and the challenges of state school teachers
Being a teacher with disabilities: Experiences from across five countries
“Good Buys” bought and shelved – Reviving unused structured teacher guides in Afghanistan
Assessment: the forgotten component in large scale teacher professional development?
