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VIDEO: Let’s celebrate our teachers – FEDSAS to governing bodies, parents and learners

Status of teachers celebrated as valuable specialists on World Teachers’ Day.

Teachers are valuable specialists, says the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers.

This recommendation was accepted on October 5, 1966 and has given rise to the celebration of World Teachers’ Day annually on October 5. Teachers are on the frontline of education recovery efforts given the continued impact of the pandemic on this important sector.

This year we acknowledge the determination and passion with which the world’s 63 million educators have been doing their work since the onset of the pandemic,” said acting CEO of the Federation of Governing Bodies of South African Schools (FEDSAS) Dr Jaco Deacon.

In South Africa the official date for World Teachers’ Day is during the school holidays. While teachers are enjoying a well-deserved break on this day, FEDSAS is encouraging governing bodies and the school community to celebrate the day on the first Friday of the fourth term (October 15, 2021).

“It is also important to acknowledge the emotional impact that lockdown and emergency online education have on the well-being of teachers. Teachers are the carriers of dreams. Career days are popular days at schools and allow learners to show off their dreams for their future. What is normally a fun day at school is also a reminder of the responsibility resting on teachers to turn these dreams into reality. The manner in which they have been doing it amidst the disruption of the past two years is commendable.”

Deacon said teachers are the most important asset in the school system.

As the broader school community it is our duty to see to it that teachers have everything they need to do their work as valuable specialists.”

FEDSAS encouraged governing bodies, parents, learners and other role-players to start planning for the celebration of World Teachers’ Day at their school.

“Take a look at the FEDSAS video on social media and use the hashtags #thankyouteacher and #fedsas to acknowledge our teachers on social media,” said Deacon.

Do you have a favourite teacher? Let’s make them famous and show them we love them dearly by sending us their information as well as a photograph to randfonteinherald@caxton.co.za.

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