World Teachers’ Day is held annually on 5 October to celebrate all teachers around the globe.
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.
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. The Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel was adopted in 1997 to complement the 1966 Recommendation by covering teaching personnel in higher education.
World Teachers’ Day has been celebrated since 1994.
WORLD TEACHER’S DAY 2026: Under the theme «Standing with teachers: 60 years of protecting the profession, advancing its status and shaping our futures,» the 2026 edition will centre on reviewing the current challenges related to teacher status and the strategies to address them, calling on society and policy-makers to protect, promote and elevate that status.
Πληροφορίες και εικόνα:https://www.unesco.org/en/days/teachers
