5 Oct: World Teacher's Day
Hoy celebramos el #DíaMundialDeLosDocentes.
Los profesores son clave para lograr construir un mundo mejor para todos. Sin embargo, la realidad muestra que actualmente los maestros hacen frente a diario a problemas derivados de la falta de personal, una formación en ocasiones no adecuada e incluso a la baja consideración social de su trabajo.
Además, las cifras del Instituto de Estadística de la UNESCO muestran que para alcanzar el objetivo de la educación primaria universal de aquí a 2020, los gobiernos deberían contratar un total de 12,6 millones de profesores.
El 5 de octubre es una fecha para recordar la extraordinaria labor que llevan a cabo los profesores y poner el acento en todos los aspectos que hay que mejorar. La educación es la base sobre la que se construye el futuro de nuestras sociedades, y los maestros son, junto a los alumnos, los protagonistas principales. En definitiva, sin docentes no hay educación, y sin educación tampoco hay futuro. No lo olvidemos nunca.
Visite nuestra página especial dedicada al Día Mundial de los Docentes y participe en la celebración de esta jornada: http://on.unesco.org/1M7pogF
Empowering teachers, building sustainable societies
“Empowering teachers, building sustainable societies” is the World Teachers' Day slogan for 2015.
It is recognized that teachers are not only a means to implementing education goals; they are the key to sustainability and national capacity in achieving learning and creating societies based on knowledge, values and ethics. However, they continue to face challenges brought about by staff shortages, poor training and low status.
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics estimates that to achieve the goal of universal primary education by 2020 countries will need to recruit a total of 12.6 million primary teachers.
World Teachers’ Day on October 5 highlights the fact that teachers must be empowered as a critical step towards quality education and sustainable societies.
We will ensure that teachers and educators are empowered, adequately recruited, well-trained, professionally qualified, motivated and supported within well-resourced, efficient and effectively governed systems. ...
Incheon Declaration, WEF 2015
The Incheon Declaration at the World Education Forum (WEF) in May 2015 clearly recognized the importance of empowerment. At the forum 1600 participants from 160 countries committed to “ensure that teachers and educators are empowered, adequately recruited, well-trained, professionally qualified, motivated and supported within well-resourced, efficient and effectively governed systems”.
The Oslo Summit, “Education for Development”, held in July 2015, highlighted the need for further investment in teacher education. The proposed Sustainable Development Goals to be adopted at the UN Summit in September 2015, include a specific objective under Goal 4 to by 2030 “substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing States”.
UNESCO and partners encourage and promote events for World Teachers’ Day. Please register events at www.worldteachersday.org and take action to empower teachers.