World Teachers' Day 2020: Taking the lead
October 2020
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Trade union rights are human rights 16 September 2020 Taking the lead: Teachers around the globe come together to mark World Teachers' Day 2020
On October 5th – World Teachers' Day 2020 – Education International is hosting the biggest online meeting of teachers in history. After a year marred by disruption and crises, the 24-hour live event will give teachers everywhere the opportunity to come together, celebrate their achievements and mobilise to ensure the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 October 2020 #WorldTeachersDay | Lessons from the Pandemic: “Public Education Homework: An Equitable and Inclusive Future” by Armand Doucet.
Armand Doucet
In a time of crisis, hidden truths are revealed and what we have learned is that our collective humanity is in trouble. For it to flourish, I hope and believe teachers will play a leading role to create a future that has inclusivity as its foundation.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 October 2020 #WorldTeachersDay | Lessons from the Pandemic: Jordan Naidoo (UNESCO)
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The experience of the past months shows that hard times really bring us together and reminds us of our collective power to endure and overcome the toughest challenges. The need for stronger partnerships, collaboration and global solidarity was emphasised repeatedly in collective efforts to confront the COVID-19 pandemic underpinned by...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 October 2020 #WorldTeachersDay | Lessons from the Pandemic: “Teachers and the Public Sector Wage Bill”, by David Archer.
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The IMF is 75 years old but still has a lot to learn. They need a well trained professional teacher to explain some basic truths. You can’t commit to ambitious development goals and then impose austerity. You can’t constrain public sector wage bills and then worry that countries have shortages...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 October 2020 #WorldTeachersDay | Lessons from the Pandemic: “After the Virus: In Teachers We Trust”, by Pasi Sahlberg.
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What is the X-factor that helps schools through the current global health crisis? Lessons from around the world tell us that where schools have flexible curriculum arrangements, creative approaches to real problem-solving, and confidence in collective professional wisdom of teacher as leaders, navigation through the tough times gets easier. It...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 October 2020 #WorldTeachersDay | Lessons from the Pandemic: “Tackling crises and big changes ahead: the role of education”, by Steve Klees.
Steve Klees
The pandemic has been devastating and we have little idea of its future. The education of so many children has suffered. Nonetheless, the world has gained a new and deeper appreciation of the work of teachers -- of teachers as essential workers. The world has also gained an understanding of...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 October 2020 #WorldTeachersDay | Lessons from the Pandemic: “A World Without Teachers”, by Andy Hargreaves.
Andy Hargreaves
Never has there been a more important time than this moment, right now, to think about and appreciate what great teachers have done for our children and also for us. We have seen what the world looks like when its teachers are taken away from our children. We have witnessed...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 October 2020 #WorldTeachersDay | Lessons from the Pandemic: “Embracing our Humanity”, by Felisa Tibbitts.
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A common thread connecting educators and learners worldwide during this pandemic is a shared humanity. Teachers, administrators, students, and their families on short notice have had to respond to the demands placed on schooling when schools closed. Those closing doors required educators to reimagine classroom teaching, this is certainly true....
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 October 2020 #WorldTeachersDay | Lessons from the Pandemic: “Saluting the passion and commitment of teachers, in the front line of care”, by Mary Metcalfe.
Mary Metcalfe
Across the world, teachers are working with commitment to nurture children with a vision for a better, and a more just future.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 4 October 2020 #WorldTeachersDay | Lessons from the Pandemic: “Unleashing the transformative power of education”, by Camilla Croso.
Camilla Croso
In his seminal text "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", Brazilian scholar Paulo Freire writes, “Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.” I believe this encapsulates education’s transformative power. It is only...
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Union renewal and development 4 October 2020 World Teachers’ Day: 24-hour celebration around the world kicks off in Asia Pacific
On October 5th, Education International is hosting the largest-ever online meeting of teachers. Marking World Teachers’ Day 2020, the event celebrates educators’ commitment and leadership during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 October 2020 #WorldTeachersDay | “Regaining Our Common Purpose”, by David Edwards.
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A day after the largest online gathering of teachers in history, a split-screen picture emerges of a global crisis for our students and a profession determined to build back better.
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Standards and working conditions 12 October 2020 “Teachers: Leading in Crisis, reimagining the future” – UNESCO Celebration of World Teachers’ Day 2020
World Teachers’ Day was created by UNESCO in 1994 to mark the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 International Labour Organization (ILO)/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers and the 1997 Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher Education Teaching Personnel. In 2020, it was celebrated in short, virtual sessions...
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Union renewal and development 20 October 2020 World Teachers’ Day 2020: Global mobilisation and solidarity in unprecedented numbers
World Teachers’ Day 2020 was a landmark for the teaching profession, with over 500,000 educators coming together on October 5th for Education International’s 24-hour webcast spanning the globe.
World Teachers’ Day 2020: Global mobilisation and solidarity in unprecedented numbers