Celebrate World Teachers Day
Evadne: Education. The opportunity to explore, express, engage and entertain. Through music, arts and drama. Education for all.
Adama: I am a graduate from the university of The Gambia, bachelor’s degrees in English Language and Development Studies. Currently I teach in rural Gambia. I am passionate about girls’ education because educated girls make informed choices and informed decisions. They understand their value in life and in the future, they will play vital roles in the advancement of their communities and societies.
Helen: I feel very privileged to have been a teacher for over 30 years. I've enjoyed meeting and getting to know so many young people. As a secondary school teacher, it has been a wonderful journey to meet children when they're 11 and say goodbye to them, and wish them well in their futures, when they're 18 years old and young adults. It's always a great privilege to teach children, to enthuse them, so that they can developing new interests and learn new skills that will help them in their adult life, and skills that they will find very valuable. Also at the same time I enjoy learning from them. It's amazing over the years how much I have learnt. I remember some of my students taught me a little bit of British Sign Language. It's wonderful that teaching and learning are a two way process. It’s very important to recognise World Teachers Day.
Mary: Many years ago, my late husband Steve said to me he believed teaching to be the best profession in all the world. I too became a teacher in the 1990s, and only when I had responsibility for my own class of pupils did I fully appreciate what he meant. There can be no greater job satisfaction than knowing that you have had the opportunity to work with, and to help develop the minds of young people. It's a privilege to witness youngsters develop and blossom. Of going on journeys of discovery together with them, watching students take their learning forward, making links, embracing challenges, asking questions and testing new ideas. All of this can be exhausting, but it's also extremely exhilarating and exciting. On this World Teachers Day, let's celebrate the excitement of education, let's celebrate the role of teachers and learning.
We are working hard to support educators around the globe with our teacher training, resources for teachers, learning resource centres and digital classrooms.
We work with educators to develop projects that will help them to help their students to learn, like our Positive Periods Program, bicycles and solar radios for students, and books in a mother tongue. You can support all these projects in our gift shop. Thank you to everyone who has supported us this far.
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