At the heart of the 2024 Global Action Week for Education, coordinated by the Global Campaign for Education and joined by their national coalitions, stands Transformative Education. Focusing on the people at the centre of transformative education – teachers – the UN Secretary General convened the High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession. Its members were tasked with developing a plan of action on how the teaching profession can be supported and transformed “to play its essential role in creating a better world”.
Our speakers discussed the 59 milestone recommendations of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession, which provide a powerful set of tools to tackle the global teacher shortage and support teaching personnel globally.
Agenda:
- Introduction to GAWE 2024 – Cecilia Thea Soriano, Campaigns and Communications Manager at GCE
- Keynote: Summary of the Transformative Education Summit 2022 commitments – David Archer, Head of Programmes and Influencing at Action Aid International
- Keynote: Summary of the UN recommendations for transforming the teaching profession – Dorothy McGinley, ex-President of the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO)
- Conversation between Dorothy McGinley, David Archer, and Cecilia Thea Soriano + Invitation audience to participate
During our conversation with ActionAid, INTO, and GCE we covered questions about
- the achievability and implementation of the recommendations;
- financing of education;
- a necessary unified approach worldwide and how to leave no-one behind;
- the effects the recommendations can have for education in emergencies and crisis-affected regions, as well as refugee and displaced teachers.
