World Teachers' Day

World Teachers' Day, also known as International Teachers Day, is an international day held
annually on October 5. Established in 1994, it commemorates the signing of the
1966 UNESCO/ILO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers,[1] which is a standard-
setting instrument that addresses the status and situations of teachers around the world.[2] This
recommendation outlines standards relating to education personnel policy, recruitment, and initial
training as well as the continuing education of teachers, their employment, and working
conditions.[2] World Teachers' Day aims to focus on "appreciating, assessing and improving the
educators of the world" and to provide an opportunity to consider issues related to teachers and
teaching.[3]

Contents

 1Celebration
 2See also
 3References
 4Bibliography
 5External links

Celebration[edit]
To celebrate World Teachers' Day, the UNESCO and Education International (EI) mounts a
campaign each year to help give the world better understanding of teachers and the role they play in
the development of students and society.[2] They partner with the private sector such as media
organizations to achieve this purpose. The campaign focus on different themes for every year. For
instance, "Empowering Teachers” is the theme for 2017. This was the year World Teachers' Day
commemorated the 20th anniversary of the 1997 UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status
of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel, bringing the sometimes-neglected area of teaching
personnel at Higher Education institutions into the conversation about the status of teachers.[4]
For 2018, the UNESCO adopted the theme: "The right to education means the right to a qualified
teacher.”[5] It commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(1948) and serves as a reminder that the right to education cannot be realized without trained and
qualified teachers.[5]
The UNESCO cites that everyone can help by celebrating the profession, by generating awareness
about teacher issues and by ensuring that teacher respect is part of the natural order of
things.[3] Schools and students, for instance, prepare an occasion for teachers during this day. More
than 100 countries commemorate World Teachers' Day[6] and each holds its own celebrations such
as the case of India, which has been commemorating Teachers' Day every october 5th September.[7]
MANILA, Philippines – Public school teachers will receive a P1,000 cash benefit from
the Department of Education (DepEd) on October 5, World Teachers Day.
(READ: Briones: I am not against salary increase for public school teachers)

According to DepEd Order No. 26, signed on Thursday, September 19, the benefit
would be granted to all teachers who were in service as of September 30.

Those entitled to the benefit include "all persons engaged in classrom teaching, in any
level of instruction, on full-time basis," according to the order.

Guidance counselors, school librarians, industrial arts or vocational instructors, and all
other persons performing supervisory and/or administrative functions in government-run
academic institutions would also receive the benefit.

The following will not receive P1,000 on October 5:

 On absence without leave (AWOL) as of September 30, 2019;

 No longer in service as of September 30, 2019;
 Found guilty of any offense in connection with their work from September
18, 2018 to September 30, 2019; and
 Hired after September 30, 2019.

The government has allocated P800 million in the 2019 budget for this incentive, but a
bigger budget is being eyed for 2020.

"Next year, another P900 million has been earmarked to pay for the WTDIB [World
Teachers’ Day Incentive Benefit] in the proposed 2020 national budget that the House
recently approved," said Pasig City Representative Roman Romulo, chairman of the
House committee on basic education and culture.