World Teachers Day 2024 and the UNESCO-Hamdan Award Ceremony

World Teachers’ Day 2024 highlights the need to address the systemic challenges teachers face and to establish a more inclusive dialogue about their role in education.

UNESCO is hosting a hybrid World Teachers’ Day and the UNESCO-Hamdan Award Ceremony, on the 4th of October 2024, 09h30-16h30 SAST: Valuing teacher voices.

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World Teachers’ Day is organised by UNESCO in collaboration with ILO, UNICEF and Education International.

The actual World Teachers’ Day is held annually on 5 October to celebrate all teachers around the globe. It commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers, which sets benchmarks regarding the rights and responsibilities of teachers, and standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment, and teaching and learning conditions.

It is a day to celebrate how teachers are transforming education but also to reflect on the support they need to fully deploy their talent and vocation, and to rethink the way ahead for the profession globally.

The 2024 celebrations will focus on "Valuing teacher voices: towards a new social contract for education", underscoring the urgency of calling for and attending to teachers' voices to address their challenges but, most importantly, to acknowledge and benefit from the expert knowledge and input that they bring to education.