Under the theme, Quality teachers for Quality Education: Better working conditions for A Brighter Future” The Anguilla Teachers’ Union Joins teachers around the world to recognize the efforts made by teachers. To celebrate our efforts, World Teachers’ Day is celebrated annually in most countries around the world on October 5th.

Henry Brooks Adams once wrote that a teacher affects eternity because he can never tell where his influence stops. We believe that every child deserves a high-qualified teacher. Qualified teachers are those who are well equipped for the classroom.

Under the theme “Quality Teachers for Quality Education”, the Anguilla Teachers’ Union celebrates Teachers’ Week 2006, Sunday October 1st – Friday October 6th


• Activities for the Week include:

October 1 Sunday – Church service, St. Gerard’s Catholic 9:00 am

October 2 Monday – President Radio Address, Teacher becomes principal for a day / community members teach at schools

October 4th Wednesday, Food fair & Social at the Agricultural Grounds starting at 6:30 pm.

October 5 Thursday - WTD/ Teacher Appreciation Day
- Teacher Appreciation Concert – Campus B

On that day, students, teachers and other community members should express their appreciation to teachers. We know a little appreciation can go a long way to make teachers feel good about what they do. Its not just the gifts that matter it’s the sincerity of your appreciation. This is a one-day event, but we hope individuals do not treat it that way. Remember we are teachers! That’s what we do, that’s who we are and we work tirelessly everyday because we love what we do. The best you can do is just say we love and appreciate all that you do. It is our hope that the community will continue to show this level of respect and appreciation not just on one day but throughout the year. Show us that you are concerned about your child’s education – attend parents teachers meetings regularly, call a teacher to find out how your child is doing in that class, pay a visit to the school to see how your child is doing. World Teacher´s Day is celebrated every year in more than 100 countries, not only in the countries where the teachers are better paid and have better teaching conditions, because of the greater investment in education, but also in countries where the lives and liberty of the teachers are under threat from constant violence and opression.

October 6 Friday Teachers Conference & Awards Ceremony, Anguilla Great House starting at 9 :00 am.

Let us improve the quality of education, let us lobby our governments for better working conditions, more resources, more funding, greater involvement. Quality begins with you! Let your voice be heard.

EI Statement

We, teachers of the World

Expect that education authorities worldwide will implement the 1966 Recommendation on the Status of Teachers, as well as the 1997 Recommendation on the Status of Higher Education Personnel in order to bring the working conditions of teachers and the learning environment of students up to the required standards;

Demand that the right of every child to free quality publicly-funded education be guaranteed all over the world;

Urge intergovernmental organisations and their member states to fulfil their commitment to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including Education For All, and to consider education as a public service and not a commodity;

Call upon governments to plan for the adequate supply of quality teachers to meet future needs and upon the international donor community to give their full support to this;

Appeal for the voices of teachers and their unions to be heard in the debate on quality education, as full professional partners in decision making processes and for constructive social dialogue practises to be developed in every nation and at all levels;

Take a pledge to work with a high degree of professionalism to assure quality education for all children in the world;

Insist that quality education can only be achieved with qualified teachers who have received highlevel initial training, have access to adequate in-service training and have at their disposal pedagogical means to enable them to act as professionals in education;

Oblige governments to take seriously their commitments to ensure equal pay and equal rights for women and to ensure their empowerment in the education setting, in decision making and in the workplace;

Note the role that we, the teachers of the world, have to play in securing a quality education of all children - a mission which cannot be achieved without the full support of national, regional and world communities.