World Teachers’ Day, 5 October
UNESCO proclaimed 5 October to be World Teachers’ Day (WTD) 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. Various guidelines are included regarding teachers’ participation in educational decisions through consultation and negotiation with policy-makers. The Recommendation is an important set of guidelines to promote teachers’ status in the interest of quality education.
WTD is a natural extension of UNESCO and partner's all year round work for teachers, ensuring that this profession, so vital to the healthy functioning of society, is itself "healthy". Teachers are a normative indicator of social health. See http://www.worldteachersday.org