Overview
The News and Events pages are updated regularly with details of upcoming opportunities for your students to get involved and for you to discuss issues relating to global education and UNICEF’s work with other, like-minded teachers.
World Teachers’ Day is October 5th. It’s a great day to think about the work that teachers do with young people in Canada and around the world.
Teachers provide a quality education to our current generation of students, and also have a significant hand in shaping the future by instilling in children essential cultural and social values such as tolerance, gender equality and open dialogue. To commemorate World Teachers’ Day, UNICEF’s podcast moderator Femi Oke spoke with Jamila Marofi, a high school teacher from Afghanistan, Gorma Minnie, a school administrator from Liberia and Professor Fernando Reimers from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in America. You can listen to this podcast here http://www.unicef.org/education/index_59983.html
You will hear Professor Reimers talking about the need to provide educators with the proper training and to create an environment that supports effective teaching.
UNICEF Canada, in collaboration with leading civil society organizations, Canadian children and young people (under 18), relevant government departments and civil society groups, has produced a prototype of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC) in youth-friendly language (YFOPAC) in English, French and Oji-Cree syllabics. To learn more about it please visit www.unicef.ca/youthfriendlyopac (English) and www.unicef.ca/pfadestineauxjeunes (French).
