Why celebrate October 5 as World Teacher’s Day every year
World Teachers' Day has been celebrated and organized by UNESCO around the world since 1994. On October 5 of each year, people worldwide take their hats off to honor teachers of all stripes in recognition of their efforts to educate new generations. It is an opportunity to highlight the vital work, professionalism, and involvement of teachers in advancing our society.
Need for qualified professionals
Teachers open doors to a better world. Without teachers, education would not fulfill its assigned role, for teaching is not just about teaching a student a series of facts and numbers. It is to inspire, to release the potential of the child, to offer him new perspectives. To teach is to help children realize their dreams of a better world. This is why it is urged so strongly on the right of every child in the world to have the attention of qualified personnel who can help him grow prosperously.
Guide and encourage students
Throughout the various schooling stages, from kindergarten to higher education, qualified teachers are needed to guide students and encourage them to cultivate core values such as peace, tolerance, equality, respect, and understanding. Qualified teachers help children, youth, and adults become critical, responsible citizens who can influence the world around them. They also awaken their sense of dialogue and their feeling of confidence in themselves and others. Teachers are the backbone of education.
Proper working conditions for teachers
In a message sent on World Teachers' Day in 2015, UNESCO insisted on the need to ensure decent, safe, and healthy working conditions for all teachers and guarantee confidence and freedom. Professionals and academics are stressing that, despite the global recognition of teachers' primary role in building sustainable and prosperous societies, the world still experiences a shortage in the number of qualified teachers and people with appropriate professional training. Thus, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) estimates that the generalization of elementary education by 2020 will require, as a first step, the recruitment of 10.9 million teachers.
Equal Opportunity
The organization also pointed out that these factors create gaps in the level of equal opportunities and affect, in particular, primary education in the poorest areas. Since primary school teachers receive little training and meager salaries in several countries around the world. In a message sent to the education family in 2015, the Minister of National Education and Vocational Training Rachid Benmokhtar emphasized the choices and strategic orientations adopted by the Higher Education Council, training and scientific research, as well as on the various priorities that were developed from the proposals of teachers, partners of the ministry and various actors of society in addition to the analysis of many national reports and international concerning the situation of the education system of the Kingdom.
These are measures concerning training in foreign languages, the merger of public education and vocational training. To this end, a mobilization of all public and private actors for the implementation of reforms is necessary, in particular, in matters of equity and equal opportunities.
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