The history of World Teacher Day

World Teacher Day
October 5 of the year is the World Teacher Day Teachers. World Teacher Day was established in 1994 to commemorate the joint publication by UNESCO and the International Labour Organization of a recommendation on the status of Teachers. October 5, 1966, the International Labour Organization and the United Nations Educational and Cultural Group (UNESCO), in a joint review of the adoption of the recommendation on the status of teachers, set the theme day on the same day. The recommendation on the status of teachers is an important document on the profession of teachers around the world, which for the first time suggests that "teacher work should be regarded as a profession", thus, the perception that teachers ' careers should be professional occupations is gradually becoming a consensus. The
World Teacher Day aims to commend and thank teachers worldwide for their contributions to the cause of education and humanity, and to arouse worldwide concern for teachers and help teachers to assert their rights and interests. Every day, more than 100 countries around the world hold celebrations.

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UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP and the International Labour Organization, as well as the International Association of Education, paid tribute to teachers around the world and stressed the importance of a highly qualified teaching team. The
message states that teachers are indispensable to achieving the goals of EFA and the goals of international education in the Millennium Development Goals. Governments are committed to making quality education acceptable to all children by 2015. The question of the lack of qualified teachers is a major challenge in achieving these goals.
UNESCO estimates that, by 2015, there will be a total of 18 million new teachers worldwide, of which Africa needs 4 million. The high population growth, the increasing enrolment rate, the impact of HIV/AIDS on countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the Arab States and South-East Asia, and the large number of teacher separations, combined with the shortage of teachers in certain academic areas in the more developed countries, pose a serious threat to the achievement of these objectives. The
speech points out that the shortage of numbers is only one aspect of the challenge. Some of the current policies for recruiting and retaining teachers are likely to reduce the quality of education, for example, by expanding the size of classes, increasing the workload of teachers, reducing entrance thresholds at teachers ' colleges, employing untrained or incompetent professionals or contract teachers with little or no job security. The
speech emphasizes that schools must attract and retain a well-trained, motivated, effective and gender-balanced teaching staff, and must establish a system to support teachers ' classroom teaching and their lifelong career development.
UNESCO and ILO submitted two proposals in 1966 and 1997, policy guidance has been provided to improve the quality of teachers and teaching, providing guidance and good practices on the status of teachers, training, working conditions, career development and the ability of teachers to participate in educational decision-making through consultations and discussions. The speech called upon States to fully implement those recommendations.

in Friday, UNESCO organized a high-level panel discussion on key issues and challenges facing teachers ' careers and on the achievement of comprehensive education and the Millennium Development Goals. In addition, UNESCO has launched a three-day workshop on "Improving comparable indicators on teachers and teaching: current policies, emerging issues, opportunities and challenges". The
World Teacher Day was co-sponsored by UNESCO and ILO in 1994. The day of October 5 was scheduled to commemorate the adoption by UNESCO and ILO of the joint proposal on the status of teachers on October 5, 1966.

In 1994, a joint decision by UNESCO and the International Labour Organization to make the adoption of the recommendation on the status of Teachers, October 5, the World Teacher Day, is aimed at commending and thanking teachers worldwide for their contributions to the cause of education and humanity, and for the worldwide attention to teachers, Help teachers all over the world to fight for and defend their rights and promote their own development.
in order to enhance the importance of this work, UNESCO, in Geneva in 1994, designated October 5 as the World Teacher Day, a festival that has been recognized by more than 100 countries worldwide. The International Education Organization (EI,EDUCATIONINTERNATIONAL) is the largest teacher association in the world, with 24 million members in 153 countries. In 1999, the Organization launched a joint initiative with UNESCO for the issuance of stamps on the theme "International Teacher Day" for national posts.
Postal services in 7 countries and regions have issued 19 commemorative stamps for World Teacher Day, which are: St. Vincent, Grenada, Domincan Rep., Mongolia, Mongolian, Late, Mali and the Philippines. These stamps are the subject of education and teacher-related topics such as renowned teachers, educators (Mongolia, Saint Vincent, the Philippines), lectures (Mongolia (Figure 3), Mongolian characteristics Late, Mali (Fig. 1-2)). A world teacher's Day stamp in Mali also shows a scene where teachers learn from each other and prepare lesson plans. These are the smaller countries and regions of the postal Service, with some commercial color. The inclusion of Canada and Cyprus in the 2002 demonstrated the importance of this "World Teacher Day". October 4, 2002, Canada Post publishes a World Teacher Day commemorative stamp (Fig. 4), designed by Mark Curtis (Markkoudis) of the Toronto Curtis (Koudis) Design room. On the occasion of World Teacher Day 2002, UNESCO, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) jointly issued a statement calling on countries to provide teachers with two of the environment and reasonable remuneration for their physical and mental health. The joint statement pays special tribute to teachers who have worked long and hard, and urges many countries to pay attention to the shortage of teachers. According to the United Nations survey, rapid population growth and deteriorating working conditions in developing countries have created a severe shortage of teachers and may lead to a decline in the quality of education. In developed countries, teachers tend to be aging because of the low salaries of teachers and the heavy burden of teachers, which leads to the reluctance of young people to engage in the industry. The stamp was issued to remind the public of the importance of teachers, the world's most important profession. Unfortunately, this World Teacher Day stamp is nothing new, and it is not divorced from the old "teacher-blackboard" routine. The "World Teacher's Day", issued by Cyprus on September 12, 2002, has a blackboard in it, but the right half of the stampis a computer, which reflects the application of computer in education in modern society.

2006 World Teacher Day Theme: Quality education requires quality teachers;
Theme of World Teacher Day 2011
Theme of World Teacher Day 2011
2007 World Teacher Day theme: To create a high-quality team of teachers;
Theme of World Teacher Day 2008: Teacher policy;
2009 World Teacher Day Theme: Creating the Future: Investing immediately in a teacher (built the future:invest in teachers now);
2010 World Teacher Day Theme: Renaissance begins with teachers (Recovery begins with Teachers);
2011 World Teacher Day Theme: Teachers promote gender equality (Teachers for Gender Equality).