GAWE 2024: EI Africa calls for recognition of the teachers’ role in transforming education

In Africa, teachers play a crucial role in the transformative education process, shaping the future of the continent by imparting knowledge, skills,  competences, values and ethics to the next generation. Their impact extends beyond the classroom, but also contributes to societal development and economic progress.
 
Speaking at the ANCEFA Regional Policy Dialogue on Transforming Education in Africa Meeting on 26th April 2024, convened to commemorate this year’s Global Action Week for Education (GAWE), Dr. Dennis Sinyolo, Regional Director for Education International Africa, highlighted that teachers transform lives. They impart knowledge, they prepare young people for life and decent work. They empower children, youth and adults to reach their maximum potential. 
 
After then, Sinyolo presented the Seven-Point Plan, which can enhance the impact of teachers on the transformative education process in Africa. These are:
  1. Develop, strengthen, and fully implement professional teaching standards;
  2. Professionalise teaching by ensuring quality and relevant initial teacher education, organised and systematic induction and free professional development programmes for teachers;  
  3. Build the capacity of school leaders and teachers to exercise leadership; 
  4. Generate and use evidence and data to support education and teacher policy development and reforms; 
  5. Strengthen social and policy dialogue by involving teacher organisations in  collective bargaining, as well as the conceptualisation, implementation, monitoring and review of education and teacher policies;
  6. Make teaching an attractive and first choice profession by ensuring that teachers have decent salaries and working conditions; 
  7. Invest in education and teachers. Support EI’s Go Public! Fund Education campaign. 
‘’We can unleash the potential of teachers to transform education in Africa and beyond. We need to trust, value and support teachers. Let us remember that money put into education and teachers is not an expense, but an investment; an investment in our children, in our youth, in our future and in the Africa We want’’, he concluded.

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