MEMORANDUM To The Regional Directors All ROs FROM The Officer-in-Charge (Deputy Director General, Policies and Planning) DATE September 28, 2016 SUBJECT : .. World Teachers’ Day Celebration 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 also the first World Teachers’ Day (WTD) to be celebrated within the new Global Education 2030 Agenda adopted by the world community one year ago. ‘As a UNEVOC Center, TESDA enjoins all Field Operating Units, including other public and private TVs, to commemorate World Teachers’ Day with the theme “Valuing Teachers, Improving their Status” fon October 5, 2016. The day raises awareness, understanding and appreciation of the important role teacher's play in education and training. This year’s 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). A specific education goal, SDG4, pledges to “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promate 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. On this occasion, let us pay tribute to all TVET trainers by undertaking the following: 1. Hanging of tarpaulins (design is attached) for the entire month of October in TESDA offices and TTls (if possible encourage private TVIs and other partners); 2. Enjoin public and private TVIs that on October 5, 2016 and during the Flag Raising Ceremony every Monday of October, to have their TVET trainers recite the TVET Trainers’ Creed (please ‘see attached); and 3. Posting in the ROPOTI respective Facebook all activities undertaken honoring the TVET trainers. We look forward to receiving information, including photos (jpeg format, high resolution), on your commemoration of the World Teachers’ Day. Please send the information on or before October 12, 2016 to NITESD/TTDD thru email address: nitesd tid @tesda.gov ph. The shared information will be published in the UNESCO-UNEVOC reports and website, as appropriate. Should there be any clarification on this regard, please contact Mr. Alfonso P. Francisco, NITESD/TTDD thru Tel. No.: (02) 836-8382 and/or Mobile No.: (0917) 7030291 For information and appropriate action, ;OSANNA A. URDANETA Encl Tarpaulin Template with TVET Trainers’ Creed o The ODDG- TESDO Ros