Teacher’s Day
Teacher's Day
We can never pay back a teacher for whatever we say or do in teacher’s day since a teacher spends their whole life teaching and guiding kids to reach success, knowledge, and a never-ending thrive for turning dreams into reality.
“Have you ever met someone better than one who builds minds and people?”
– The poet Ahmad Shawqi.²
What is Teacher’s Day?
It’s an international day that’s celebrated yearly on the third occurring Thursday of March each year.¹
More than a hundred countries celebrate this day around the world to honor every teacher, everywhere. Teachers’ day is celebrated on the 5th of October. This is the same day that UNESCO and the International Labour Organization adopted a joint recommendation together to regulate teachers’ conditions. Which contains several principles that are related to parental policies and educational programs, in addition to onboarding teachers and providing jobs for them while studying their circumstances. Without forgetting the constant pursuit of achieving goals that guarantee their participation in decision-making on an educational level.²
What are the reasons behind celebrating teachers’ day?
There’s a strong relationship between the quality of education and teachers’ efficiency. A country that has a high level of educational quality must have teachers that are also of high rank. And since the importance of education is less than in certain countries of the world, teachers’ day is here to remind us of the weight of this profession and its message, and the role teachers play in society.
What’s a teacher’s role in society?
Teachers help students think critically, deal with information using different measures, and push them to voluntary work and study choices before taking them. Teachers are considered one of the most important human resources globally since good educational quality would never be available without good teachers.
Some numbers and facts
In many cases, we attribute poor education and lack of teachers to the countries’ lack of progression. This makes us think that developing countries are the only ones suffering from this issue. But as a matter of fact, the USA, Spain, Ireland, Italy, and Sweden are all experiencing low numbers of available teachers. The gap can be bridged in the USA by employing 0.5% of the population. China needs 1%. Nigeria needs 1.2%. while southern Sahara countries need to employ 1.8 million teachers. This indicates that despite progressiveness, we internationally and generally need more teachers. ²
The countries that suffer from a lack of teacher jobs are:
Northern Sahara in Africa; only has 243 thousand teachers, West Asia with less than 292 thousand teachers, and North America and western Europe with 155 thousand teachers. In addition to central and eastern Europe and central and eastern Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean represent only 11% of the additional numbers of needed teachers on a worldwide level to achieve the generalization of primary schooling. ²
We at Uplifting Syrian Women respect and honor teachers’ messages, especially since our initiative is educational at first, we make sure with every course or training provided to choose the right teacher. And with this day we would like to congratulate each person that offered their time and energy for free with the aim of helping others grow. We always try our best to raise teachers by showing their vital role in society.
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References:
[1] Faharas
[2] Marefa
