World Teachers’ Day 2025 Recasting teaching as a collaborative profession

The Teacher Task Force is pleased to announce that the global celebrations of World Teachers’ Day 2025 will take place on 3 October 2025 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in conjunction with the Pan African Conference on Teachers’ Education (PACTED 2025), under the theme Recasting teaching as a collaborative profession.

Celebrated annually since 1994, World Teachers’ Day commemorates the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers—the international standard setting out teachers’ rights, responsibilities, and working conditions—as well as the 1997 Recommendation on Higher-Education Teaching Personnel. The day honours the transformative role of teachers in shaping education and reflects on the support they need to fully realise their potential.

The celebrations will the occasion to launch the Teacher Task Force & UNESCO Institute for Statistics fact sheet highlighting promising approaches showing how collaboration may support teaching quality, increase teacher retention, enhance learning outcomes and empower teachers to contribute as agents of change in their schools and communities. Read the fact sheet here.

World Teachers’ Day is convened by the Teacher Task Force members UNESCO, the International Labour Organization (ILO), UNICEF, and Education International (EI).

• Read the fact sheet
• Register to attend online
• Read the co-coneveners' joint message
• Download this year's poster in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian
• Share the social media messages with new data
• Consult the official UNESCO World Teachers' Day webpage to access the updated agenda and learn more about UNESCO's work on teachers.