World Youth Skills Day : Skills for a Resilient Youth : resources

World Youth Skills Day 2020 

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World Youth Skills Day 2020 will take place in a challenging context. The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown measures have led to the worldwide closure of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions, threatening the continuity of skills development.

It is estimated that nearly 70% of the world’s learners are affected by school closures across education levels currently. 

Currently, more than 1 in 6 young people are out of work due to COVID-19. As young people are called upon to contribute to the recovery effort, they will need to be equipped with the skills to successfully manage evolving challenges and the resilience to adapt to future disruptions.

Respondents to a survey of TVET institutions, jointly collected by UNESCO, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Bank, reported that distance training has become the most common way of imparting skills, with considerable difficulties regarding, among others, curricula adaptation, trainee and trainer preparedness, connectivity, or assessment and certification processes.

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Theme 2020: 

“Skills for a Resilient Youth”

The World Youth Skills Day 2020 under the theme “Skills for a Resilient Youth” is co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Portugal and Sri Lanka to the United Nations, together with UNESCO, ILO and the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth.

The focus will be on resilience. In the short term, this implies making young people resilient to rapid changes in prospects for employment and entrepreneurship in the sectors that are hardest hit by the crisis, namely wholesale and retail trade, autorepair, manufacturing, real estate, administrative activities, accommodation and food services. 

In the longer term, this implies helping skills development systems adapt to changes in the world economy that the pandemic and recession will bring.

Owing to the COVID-19 situation, the celebrations of the World Youth Skills Day 2020 will have a virtual format. A panel discussion will bring together multiple stakeholders in skills development including young people, member States, TVET institutions, the private sector, workers’ organizations, policy makers and development partners. An online discussion with the audience will follow.

The Virtual Conference on Skills for a Resilient Youth aims to:

• assess the short-, medium-, and long-term impacts of the pandemic in different country contexts;

• share good practices from TVET institutions about how they have responded to the pandemic. For example, how institutions have provided distance learning in no-tech, low-tech and high-tech scenarios, and how teachers and trainers have been supported;

• gain insights from private sector, employee, and employer stakeholders about the impact of the pandemic on their sectors, and the changes in job profiles and skills needs that they foresee;

• learn from young people about their hopes and fears as well as the opportunities that they see moving forward;

• reflect on how TVET systems can respond to the short- and medium-term impact of the pandemic, while also keeping in mind longer-lasting challenges.

Prior to the current crisis, young people aged 15-24 were three times more likely than adults to be unemployed and often faced a prolonged school-to-work transition period. 

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Skills Agenda's objective is to equip young people with the skills to successfully manage evolving challenges in green and digital transformations and the resilience to adapt to future disruptions.

Submission: TVET Youth Stories 2020

Schools and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions around the world have closed in massive numbers due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As young people have continued to showcase their adaptability and resilience despite the current challenges, UNESCO-UNEVOC encouraged them to submit videos of how they were continuing to learn during lockdown. 

These stories are part of a campaign to mark World Youth Skills Day (WYSD) and highlight the importance of skills development for a resilient youth. 

Tell your story

Click here to watch the full playlist of #TVETYouthStories

In post-COVID-19 societies, as young people are called upon to contribute to the recovery effort, they will need to be equipped with the skills to successfully manage evolving challenges and the resilience to adapt to future disruptions.

Let’s encourage the youth to acquire valuable and resilient skills because the success of the nation always depends on the success of its youth. 

G-Souto

15.07.2020

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World Teachers’ Day : Teaching in Freedom, Empowering Teachers

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"Teachers are a critical foundation of every society’s long-term strength - providing children, young people and adults with the knowledge and skills they need to fulfill their potential."

UNESCO, ILO, UNICEF, message 2017

Today is annual World Teachers’ Day, a UNESCO initiative devoted to appreciating, assessing and improving the educators of the world.

Held annually on 5 October since 1994, World Teachers’ Day commemorates the anniversary of the signing of the 1966 UNESCO/ILO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers, which celebrated its 50th anniversary during last year’s edition. 

However, local events may be on some other date close to October 5, so that they do not fall during fall (northern hemisphere) or spring (southern hemisphere) school vacations. 

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World Teachers’ Day 2017 will be celebrated under the theme:

“Teaching in Freedom, Empowering Teachers”

It echoes the 2015 theme that followed the adoption of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) in September 2015, when teacher empowerment was reaffirmed as a top priority in all education and development strategies.

"Being an empowered teacher means having access to high-quality training, fair wages, and continuous opportunities for professional development. It also means having the freedom to support the development of national curricula - and the professional autonomy to choose the most appropriate methods and approaches that enable more effective, inclusive and equitable education. Furthermore, it means being able to teach in safety and security during times of political change, instability, and conflict."

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It has become the occasion to mark achievements and reflect on ways to counter the remaining challenges for the promotion of the teaching profession, like the acute shortage of teachers. Indeed, according to the UNESCO Institute of Statistics, the world needs 69 Million teachers if we are to achieve universal primary and secondary education by 2030.

Education is the 4th goal after growth and employment, sustainable consumption and production, and climate change. 

Sustainable Development Goal 4 has 10 targets encompassing many different aspects of education. There are seven targets which are expected outcomes and three targets which are means of achieving these targets.

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This year, World Teachers’ Day commemorates the 20th anniversary of the 1997 UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel. Teaching personnel at institutions of higher education are often overlooked in discussions concerning the status of teachers. 

Like teachers at pre-primary, primary, and secondary levels, teaching in higher education is a profession requiring expert knowledge, specialized skills, and pedagogical competence.

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Despite global recognition of the importance of teachers in changing children’s lives and building sustainable and prosperous societies, teachers are all too often undervalued and under-empowered.

Worldwide there is a growing shortage of quality teachers and inadequate professional training. The UNESCO Institute for Statistics estimates that to achieve universal primary education by 2030 the world needs 69 Million teachers if we are to achieve universal primary and secondary education by 2030.

All these factors result in equity gaps in access and learning which mostly affect the poorest regions and schools and the earliest grades. This is particularly damaging, as there is clear evidence that the earliest years of a child’s development are the most critical.

 UNESCO Institute for Statistics

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Some Data:

6 Out of 10 Children and Adolescents Are Not Learning a Minimum in Reading and Math

New data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics show that 617 million children and adolescents worldwide are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics. The figure signals “a learning crisis” according to the UIS, which could threaten progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Two-thirds of the children who are not learning are in school. Of the 387 million primary school-age children unable to read proficiently, 262 million are in school. There are also about 137 million adolescents of lower secondary school age who are in classrooms but unable to meet minimum proficiency levels in reading.  

“The figures are staggering but they show the way forward,” says Ms Montoya. “We know where these children live and go to school. They are not hidden or isolated from their governments and communities – they are sitting in classrooms with their own aspirations and potential. We can reach these kids but not by simply hoping that they stay in school and grasp the basics.” 

My thoughts:

Teachers are too often undervalued and under-empowered. Often they don't have access to high-quality training and continuous opportunities for professional development. 

When they want to have the autonomy to choose the most appropriate methods and approaches that enable more effective the learning of their students, and practice inclusive and equitable education, they are not empowered by the school director, other colleagues, and sometimes by parents who don't understand the visin of a different pedagogue who knows well the capacities of their students. A class has different students and some of them learn in different levels.

Sometimes, they don't have the freedom to support the development of national curricula and the professional autonomy to choose the most appropriate methods and approaches that enable more effective, inclusive and equitable education.

To engage their students, teachers create, collaborate, communicate and think critically. Teachers who love to teach they know which are the best methods and approaches that enable every student in a class.

If we love to be a teacher, the most important are our students. And every student must be empower to learn and be a better learner even on a different rythm to enable each one with its own aspirations and potential.

"Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students."

Charles Kuralt

G-Souto

05.10.2017

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World Teachers' Day : Valuing and Improving their Status

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"It Takes a Teacher  to prepare the students for the world."

World Teachers' Day is celebrated since 5 October 1994. UNESCO joint signing of the UNESCO/ International Labour Organisation (ILO) recommendation concerning the status of teachers. This recommendation is morally binding for all countries.

However, local events may be on some other date close to October 5, so that they do not fall during fall (northern hemisphere) or spring (southern hemisphere) school vacations. 

This year World Teachers’ Day marks the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers. It is the first world Teachers’ Day (WTD) to be celebrated within the new Global Education 2030 Agenda adopted by the world community one year ago.

This year’s theme : “Valuing Teachers, Improving their Status”.

This theme embodies the fundamental principles of the fifty-year-old Recommendation while shining a light on the need to support teachers as reflected in the agenda’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

SDG4

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A specific education goal, SDG4, pledges to “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”.

Teachers are not only pivotal to the right to education they are key to achieving the targets set out in SDG4.

The roadmap for the new agenda, the Education 2030 Framework for Action, highlights the fact:

Teachers are fundamental for equitable and quality education and, as such, must be “adequately trained, recruited and remunerated, motivated and supported within well-resourced, efficient and effectively governed systems”.

However, in order to achieve this goal, it is necessary not only to substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers but to motivate them by valuing their work. 

UNESCO and eAtlas of Teachers

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Some information:

By 2030, 3.2 million more teachers will be required to achieve universal primary education and 5.1 million more in order to achieve universal lower secondary education.

To mark World Teachers’ Day, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) has released the first-ever estimates of how many teachers are needed to achieve the global goal for education by 2030. 

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In the next 14 years, countries must recruit almost 69 million teachers to provide every child with primary and secondary education: 24.4 million primary school teachers and 44.4 million secondary school teachers.

Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) demands inclusive and equitable quality education for all by 2030. The needs are urgent, with an estimated 263 million children and youth still out of primary and secondary school globally, according to a new UIS paper. SDG 4 includes a specific call for more qualified teachers and more support from the international community for teacher training in developing countries.

Education:

"You are the best teacher I have seen,

Even when I was down, you tried to encourage me,

You helped me achieve my biggest dreams.

Thank you for being a great support.

Happy Teachers' Day."

My thoughts:

"It takes a Teacher to empower students with skills of the futur"

Rajen Sheth

Teachers are too often undervalued and under-empowered. But if we  love to be a teacher, the most important are our students.

To engage their students, teachers create, collaborate, communicate and think critically. And they empower their students to do the same. 

I was a teacher for 30 years in different schools. I teached face-to-face and online. I was one of the first teachers to include the new technologies and social networks into my curricula. Students loved and learned better. It was their world. 

The first students I taught are now doctors, lawyers, engineers, journalists, even teachers. Others quited higher education and followed further education and they are excellent professionals on their work.

It is such a mixed feeling of pride and joy to think of my students as young adults. The children that I helped to educate. I remember every new school year, the new students, their fears and joy. I motivated so many children and adolescents. I changed lives. 

I was excited every year and prayed to be the best teacher for all of them, to be able to satisfy the needs and expectations of every student, no matter their capacities.

I'm happy of my career as a teacher. For more than 30 years I had new groups of students. They were from different backgrounds, cultures, and had different experiences to share with me and their classmates.

Today, I'm still teaching online. And I write on my blog to share some experiences and educational resources with teachers of all over the world. And thera a lot od teachers who are usual readers for years.

"Teachers are the key in changing children's lives and building sustainable and prosperous societies."

I'm so proud to be a teacher! 

"An education system is only as good as its teachers"

G-Souto

05.10.2016

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World Teacher's Day : Education is our goal

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"We will ensure that teachers and educators are empowered, adequately recruited, well-trained, professionally qualified, motivated and supported within well-resourced, efficient and effectively governed systems. ... "

Incheon Declaration, WEF 2015

The Incheon Declaration at the World Education Forum (WEF) in May 2015 clearly recognized the importance of empowerment. 

At the forum 1600 participants from 160 countries committed to “ensure that teachers and educators are empowered, adequately recruited, well-trained, professionally qualified, motivated and supported within well-resourced, efficient and effectively governed systems”.

World Teachers' Day is celebrated since 5 October 1994. The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) joint signing of the UNESCO/ International Labour Organisation (ILO) recommendation concerning the status of teachers. This recommendation is morally binding for all countries.

However, local events may be on some other date close to October 5, so that they do not fall during fall (northern hemisphere) or spring (southern hemisphere) school vacations. 

“Empowering teachers, building sustainable societies” is the World Teachers' Day slogan for 2015.

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics estimates that to achieve the goal of universal primary education by 2020 countries will need to recruit a total of 12.6 million primary teachers.

World Teachers’ Day on October 5 highlights the fact that teachers must be empowered as a critical step towards quality education and sustainable societies.

In 2013, on the World Teacher's Day, Unesco claimed for quality education provided by well trained, valued, supported and motivated teachers.

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This year, the Day comes just after the adoption of the new Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations’ General Assembly.

It represents the first opportunity to set out a roadmap for teachers in the new Education 2030 agenda.

Education is the 4th goal after growth and employment, sustainable consumption and production, and climate change. The Incheon Declaration, which constitutes the commitment of the education community to Education 2030, entrusts UNESCO to lead, coordinate and be the focal point for education within the overall SDG coordination.

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Despite global recognition of the importance of teachers in changing children’s lives and building sustainable and prosperous societies, they are all too often undervalued and under-empowered.

Today, 5 October 2015, UNESCO, the Education For All Global Monitoring Report, and Education International are launching a sign up campaign for teachers willing to become advocates for education and help lobby for progress towards the new sustainable development agenda. 

Teachers signing up will receive advocacy toolkits, and country specific information to help them lobby for change in their country.

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Worldwide there is a growing shortage of quality teachers and inadequate professional training. The UNESCO Institute for Statistics estimates that to achieve universal primary education by 2020 countries will need to recruit a total of 10.9 million primary teachers as I wrote above.

All these factors result in equity gaps in access and learning which mostly affect the poorest regions and schools and the earliest grades. This is particularly damaging, as there is clear evidence that the earliest years of a child’s development are the most critical.

Education and the Global Goals

infographic

http://www.globalpartnership.org/

Education is essential to the success of every one of the 17 new goals. Sustainable development post-2015 begins with Education.

The international community must create a space to re-consider its commitments and obligations to the young and the marginalized in the world, whose voices are often muted. Working together it is imperative that all interested stakeholders recommit themselves to unlocking the transformative power of education.

UIS infographics

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Activities : 

• Register your celebration for World Teachers' Day 2015 and share your plans with other teachers who may wish to participate or promote your event! 

• Submit an event! 

• Send an e-card and find out more about WTD! 

• See the latest figures on teachers and infographics! 

• Watch the clip!

My thoughts:

It's true that teachers are too often undervalued and under-empowered. But if we  love to be a teacher, the most important are our students.

I was a teacher for the 30 years in different schools. The first students I taught are now teachers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, journalists. Others quit higher education and prefered to follow further education and they are excellent professionals on their work.

The last generation I taught in secondary education, high-schools, started university last September.

It is such a mixed feeling of pride and joy to think of my students as young adults. The children that I helped to educate. I remember every new school year, the new students, their fears and joy. I was excited every year and prayed to be the best teacher for all of them, to be able to satisfy the needs and expectations of every student, no matter their capacities.

I'm happy of my career as a teacher. For more than 30 years I had a new group of students. They came from different backgrounds, cultures, and had different experiences to share with me and classmates.

Today, I'm still teaching online. And I write on my blog to share some experiences and educational resources with teachers in the world. 

"Teachers are the key in changing children's lives and building sustainable and prosperous societies."

I'm proud to be a teacher.

"An education system is only as goog as its teachers"

G-Souto 

05.10.2015

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