Fig. 1: Teachers, students, and parents from all over the world are invited to share their thoughts with GPDN online in honor of the UNESCO’s World Teachers’s Day 2021. During the outbreak, we are grateful for the efforts of teachers.

 

Oct 6, 2021

 

World Teachers' Day began as a commemoration of UNESCO and the ILO's joint recommendation on the status of teachers, which was adopted on October 5, 1996. It invites people worldwide to reflect on the challenges, rights, and responsibilities that teachers face today, as well as pay tribute to teachers everywhere in the world. Teachers, according to the hostess Li-hsueh Tsai, are wonderful persons in our lives who inspire us to strive forward. World Teachers' Day is an opportunity to consider the role of educators in our lives.

 

Talya, who has been teaching English in Taiwan for about ten years, stated on the program that online teaching has shown both teachers and students with various challenges. Teachers take more pre-class preparations, and students' eyesight is really a worry. Yet, she discovered that when teaching online, there are more private interactions with pupils and that some students would express themselves more freely. Despite the hardships of teaching, Talya said she loves the feeling of aiding kids despite generational gaps. When she sees the sparkle in her students' eyes as they grow, she knows it was all worth it.

Fig. 2: Talya believes that online learning has brought a number of issues for both teachers and students. Teachers should devote more time to classroom preparation. On the other side, she enjoys helping students. The progress of the students deserves all of the effort.

 

Teachers, according to Preeti Phutela, Headmistress of the Venkateshwar International School in Delhi, India, are life-long learners who continue to collect learning materials. During the pandemic, this spirit is even more visible. Teachers everywhere in the world are fast developing and becoming into IT-savvy technology upstarts. Students' learning can be smoothly integrated through online instruction, regardless of time or space limitations.

Fig. 3: According to Headmistress Preeti Phutela, teachers are life-long learners. Teachers across the world have quickly improved and turned into IT-savvy upstarts as a result of the pandemic. It's good to have a spirit of patience and bravery.

 

Rebecca, a Taiwanese special education teacher, feels that guiding children should be self-directed and handled, and above all, fun! Special education teachers, in particular, must be compassionate as well as willing to respect youngsters and possess a high level of EQ. She shared how to run the class with care, lead her children to great success through warm life teachings, and see herself as having endless possibilities in the program.  Over the years, her class has not only won first place in the school classroom layout competition, third place in the health exercises, and first place in the school's sand sculpture competition, but has also defied tradition by renaming the "Teacher Appreciation Dinner" to "Thanksgiving Dinner" in order to teach children gratitude. Rebecca stated she values the bond between teachers and students in her students' learning. Her major surprise and touch is the children's tiny growth. She believes that the children will grow up in a good and confident environment and would be able to produce remarkable value in their lives.

Fig. 4: Rebecca, a Taiwanese teacher, works hard in class and applies a warm leadership style to help pupils achieve great achievements in the future, which may be infinitely for themselves.

 

Eveline Kortekaas, a primary school teacher in the Hague, the Netherlands, mostly teaches 4 or 5 year old children from local immigrant families how to learn Dutch and begin school life in order to integrate into society. She believed that language must be taught through interaction with others. Children will be cut off from society caused by language barriers. Schools must be closed, especially during a pandemic, in order to adopt online teaching, which has a bigger influence on these children. Family support is crucial at this time. Finally, Eveline urged more male teachers to join  in order to give youngsters with a diversity of gender role models.

Fig. 5: Eveline Kortekaas, a primary school teacher in The Hague, the Netherlands, described the process of teaching Dutch to immigrant families and encouraged more male teachers to join in her path.

 

Vanessa, McKenzie, and Cale, students, said that people should thank teachers for raising youngsters to be productive members of society. Teachers, Alex Cohe and Aanya feel, are crucial persons in people's lives because they create safe spaces for mistakes and encourage people to grow and complete their education.

Fig. 6: Students see teachers as significant individuals in their lives who provide a safe environment for mistakes and encourage students to improve and complete their learning.

 

Tieng, a Florida mother, expressed gratitude to teachers for their love, hard work, and dedication in teaching not only knowledge, but also responsibility and kindness. She also complimented and solute teachers for their perseverance and bravery during the pandemic.

Fig. 7: Tieng, a Florida mother, expresses gratitude to the teachers for instilling in her children not only knowledge, but also responsibility and kindness.