World Teachers’ Day 2021 – Teachers at the heart of education recovery

Internationally, throughout October 2021 we celebrate World Teachers’ Day. In Australia, World Teachers’ Day 2021 will be celebrated on Friday 29 October 2021.

The celebration commemorates the adoption of the ILO/ UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers in 1966.  In 1997 the 1966 Recommendation was also adopted to cover teachers in higher education.

The ILO/ UNESCO joint message for 2021 is:

"On World Teachers’ Day, we are not only celebrating every teacher. We are calling on countries to invest in them and prioritize them in global education recovery efforts so that every learner has access to a qualified and supported teacher. Let’s stand with our teachers!"

Over 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, World Teachers’ Day 2021 will focus on the theme – Teachers at the heart of education recovery. Events will be held to highlight policy responses and steps to ensure that teachers develop their full potential at this time.

Teaching Professionals – The Art of the Teaching Professional and How to Teach Professionals by Dr Nigel Wilson was published in March 2021 and has won two prestigious international book awards!  It assists educators worldwide to reimagine teaching and provides practical insights, tools and techniques to develop educators and improve the adult learning experience.  Its innovative CAISSEP® techniques are easy to apply in traditional, virtual and remote teaching environments and workplaces.  Its resources include techniques for teaching with technology, culturally sensitive and inclusive teaching and teaching plan guides and templates.

Teaching Professionals is now available online in soft cover version, e-book and audio book at the Archway Publishing Bookstore

About Dr Nigel Wilson

Dr Nigel Wilson is an Australian lawyer, teaching professional and award-winning author of Teaching Professionals. He has over twenty-eight years’ experience in legal education, curriculum development, and legal practice. Nigel is also a pro bono Director of Adult Learning Australia, Australia’s national voice for adult learning and community education.

Nigel has extensive experience across undergraduate and postgraduate courses, practical legal training, clinical legal practice, corporate professional development and post-admission barrister education programmes. For over two decades, he has conducted educational training programmes in Australian legal practices, workplaces, Universities and Australian judicial colleges.