Led by the the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the International Labor Organization, International Teachers’ Day provides a good opportunity for Special Education Today to express its appreciation to teachers around Earth who work with students with disabilities.
Here is the description of the day from the UNESCO page for 2026:
World Teachers’ Day is held annually on 5 October to celebrate all teachers around the globe. It commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers, which sets benchmarks regarding the rights and responsibilities of teachers, and standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment, and teaching and learning conditions. The Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel was adopted in 1997 to complement the 1966 Recommendation by covering teaching personnel in higher education. World Teachers’ Day has been celebrated since 1994.
It is a day to celebrate how teachers are transforming education but also to reflect on the support they need to fully deploy their talent and vocation, and to rethink the way ahead for the profession globally.
This post is from all of us to all y’all in the teaching world. We stand straight and tall to honor teachers—both those who are members of the SET community and those who have yet to join it—from all the cultures and countries where teachers serve children and youths with disabilities.
致全球敬愛的老師們
國際教師節快樂!
Feliz Dia Internacional de los Maestras y Maestros. ¡Gracias por sus servicio por estudiantes con discapacidades!
Happy International Teachers’ Day, especially to those who teach individuals with disabilities!
Feliz Dia Internacional das(os) Professoras(es)!
يوم المعلّم، كل عام وأنتم بخير 🌷
Alles Gute zum Internationalen Lehrertag
Fijne dag van de leraar
Siku njema ya walimu!
We would have added good wishes in other languages, but none of us was reasonably fluent enough to do so, We considered using translation software, but stopped short of employing even. that level of artificial intelligence to add phrases we generated via that mechanism.1
So, apologies for those who speak French, Hindi, Japanese, and any languages that some members of the community speak. Indeed, Dear Readers, please add felicitations in any other languages to the comments.
Footnote
No artificial intelligence was harmed in the writing of this post.