World Teachers' Day
UNESCO proclaimed 5 October to be World Teachers’ Day in 1994, celebrating the great step made for teachers on 5 October 1966, when a special intergovernmental conference convened by UNESCO in Paris adopted the UNESCO/ILO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers, in cooperation with the ILO.
This recommendation sets forth the rights and responsibilities of teachers as well as international standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment, teaching and learning conditions. Since its adoption, the Recommendation has been considered an important set of guidelines to promote teachers’ status in the interest of quality education.
5 October also celebrates the adoption by the UNESCO General Conference in 1997 of the UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel.
World Teachers' Day 2016 at UNESCO HQ will also include the ceremony of the Hamdan Prize awards and a seminar with the Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART) experts.
In English Language Teaching (ELT), especially, when English is connected to Class Room Teaching (CRT), it plays a very significant role in engrossing the student's attention.
Educating is just one of the various things, and as a teacher one has to perform all these various things for educating the pupils. A teacher is the individual in the classroom who has the proficiency, tools and information necessary to edify young students.
In this fast growing world, there are abundant changes in teaching approaches along with the learning strategies. Besides Parents, Teacher’s play a very crucial role in developing a child’s interest towards a subject or the language. Teacher should thus become a learner by thinking about the situation by understanding it through different point of view, before teaching students and by making them relevant in everyday circumstances.
In this fast growing world, there are abundant changes in teaching approaches along with the learning strategies. Besides Parents, Teacher’s play a very crucial role in developing a child’s interest towards a subject or the language. Teacher should thus become a learner by thinking about the situation by understanding it through different point of view, before teaching students and by making them relevant in everyday circumstances.
In this fast growing world, there are abundant changes in teaching approaches along with the learning strategies. Besides Parents, Teacher’s play a very crucial role in developing a child’s interest towards a subject or the language. Teacher should thus become a learner by thinking about the situation by understanding it through different point of view, before teaching students and by making them relevant in everyday circumstances.
Besides Parents, Teacher’s play a very crucial role in developing a child’s interest towards a subject or the language. Teacher should thus become a learner by thinking about the situation by understanding it through different point of view, before teaching students and by making them relevant in everyday circumstances.
The role of a teacher has always seemed to me as something more than merely providing students with information. Instead, I see a teacher as someone who encourages students to develop the learning strategy that they will, later on, use in any domain of their life to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills and, ultimately, succeed in accomplishing their goals. To be more specific, I believe that a teacher must encourage students to develop the skills of lifelong learning. Thus, a strong foundation for their future success in their academic endeavors, rapid career advancement, and other important landmarks of their personal and professional growth will be built. By motivating people to engage in a lifelong learning process, a teacher inspires them to explore their opportunities and discover their talents.
I realize that an educator must address a range of dilemmas and solve a number of problems in the academic setting. For instance, the lack of motivation among learners is a notorious issue that teachers must handle so that the target audience could acquire the necessary knowledge and skills successfully. Nonetheless, I think that the specified aspect of teaching is, perhaps, the most interesting one. Indeed, handling the reluctance of learners requires that an educator should be very resourceful in their choice of a teaching strategy. Therefore, I believe that the educator can manage the identified concern successfully.
Thus, I am positively certain that, as a teacher, we can not only guide students to the successful acquisition of the necessary knowledge and skills but also help them engage in metacognition, i.e., develop an understanding of how they learn and what factors boost their learning process. As a result, students will participate in the active acquisition of the information and the development of the abilities that they consider a priority. By providing the students with their strengths in the knowledge in order to increase their confidence and foster crucial qualities such as responsibility, and commitment. As an educator,help students to gain the confidence and motivation that they need to succeed.
Chemen BAYRIEVA,
Senior teacher of the
Department of
World Languages of
the Institute
of International Relations of
the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.