World Teachers' Day - October 5th
Celebrate World Teachers' Day
On the Education International/UNESCO World Teachers' Day website, you are invited to make full use of interactive features for your celebrations:
Download posters produced by EI and UNESCO. The main poster is available in 7 languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Arabic, Russian and Chinese) while there are 5 regional variations of the posters that you can choose from!
Send Electronic Greeting Cards: Is there a special teacher that you'd like to pay tribute to? Do so by sending her/him a World Teachers' Day greeting card!
Twitter: If you tag your World Teachers' Day tweets with #wtd2009, your tweets will appear on the World Teachers' Day website! To know more about Twitter, please visit: http://help.twitter.com/portal
Flickr: You're able to upload photos of your events onto our World Teachers' Day photostream on Flickr. To know more about Flickr, please visit EI’s photostream.
World Teachers’ Day, held annually on October 5th since 1994, commemorates the anniversary of the signing in 1966 of the UNESCO/ILO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers. It is an occasion to celebrate the essential role of teachers in providing quality education at all levels. Since 1997, with the signing of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Status of Higher Education Personnel, October 5 is also celebrated by colleagues in the Higher Education and Research sector.
