Education Campaign
Global Action Week, 24 – 30th April 2006

TAKE ACTION - EVERY CHILD NEEDS A TEACHER!

At the national level there are three stages that count towards sending teachers to school.

Creating a dossier: THE CASE FOR TEACHERS

A dossier is a file of evidence and persuasive information that can be used to argue the case. Children, adult learners, teachers and campaigner will gather evidence that argues for quality teachers. These dossiers will be assembled in the run up to Global Action Week, 2006. Here are just a few examples of the evidence that may make up the dossier/briefcase/album:

  • Stories under the title We need a teacher because.
  • Paper cut-out "teachers", asking "please send a teacher to school" or "send my friend a teacher".
  • Pictures of classrooms, or of children and teachers out-of-school because of the lack of teachers.
  • Personal testimonies of quality teachers, or the lack of quality teachers, this could be in the form of drama, stories, songs or pictures.

OFFICIALS BACK TO SCHOOL

Following on the success of previous years, officials, political figures and celebrities will be invited back-to-school and adult learning centres. Here they will report back on progress made on previous pledges and be presented with the Case for Teachers (the evidence that has been collected in the dossiers). They will be asked to commit to taking action to send teachers to school.


THE BIG HEARING

National events will focus around "A Big Hearing" which will present "The Case for Teachers". Based on the style of court hearings, or pubic enquiries, the big hearing will be relevant to the national context. Some countries will put politicians and officials on trial to assess the progress they have made on their commitments to ensure all children have a free quality education. In other countries the persuasive case for teachers will be presented to officials, after which they will be asked to take action.
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
 
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