{"id":134982,"date":"2016-10-05T10:15:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T08:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=134982"},"modified":"2016-10-05T15:14:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T13:14:51","slug":"it-is-world-teachers-day-what-are-your-memories-of-your-favourite-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/10\/05\/it-is-world-teachers-day-what-are-your-memories-of-your-favourite-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"It is World Teachers\u2019 Day — What are your memories of your favourite teacher?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today marks World Teachers\u2019 Day and is the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO\/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is also the first world Teachers\u2019 Day (WTD) to be celebrated within the new Global Education 2030 Agenda adopted by the world community one year ago.<\/p>

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This year\u2019s theme, \u201cValuing Teachers, Improving their Status\u201d, embodies the fundamental principles of the 50-year-old recommendation while shining a light on the need to support teachers as reflected in the agenda\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A specific education goal, SDG4, pledges to \u201cEnsure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all\u201d.<\/p>

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Teachers are not only pivotal to the right to education, they also play roles that they not even paid for. There are at least \u00a020 extra jobs all teachers do but rarely get thanked for<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The roadmap for the new agenda, the Education 2030 Framework for Action<\/a>, highlights the fact that teachers are fundamental for equitable and quality education and, as such, must be \u201cadequately trained, recruited and remunerated, motivated and supported within well-resourced, efficient and effectively governed systems\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, in order to achieve this goal, it is necessary not only to substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers but to motivate them by valuing their work.<\/p>\n

By 2030, 3.2 million more teachers will be required to achieve universal primary education and 5.1 million more in order to achieve universal lower secondary education.<\/p>\n

UNESCO with the WTD convening agencies (ILO, UNICEF, UNDP, and EI) and the International Task Force on Teachers, dedicates this day to celebrating a unique intergovernmental commitment \u2013 the only international standard-setting instrument on teachers \u2013 and reaffirms its commitment to the value of the profession.<\/p>\n

Education is under pressure in South Africa like never before. \u00a0What are your memories of your favourite teachers and how did they impact on your life?<\/p>\n

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