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	View GAW News in French | Spanish News - Global Action Week GCE Global Action Week Is Just Around the Corner! With the GCE Global Action Week (24th-30th) just days away, the GCE coalitions in over 100 countries along with Education International and teachers’ unions worldwide have been coming up with amazing ways to mobilise millions of children and the public to shout out to local, national and international governments with the message that:  ‘Every Child Needs A Teacher’ if the goal of free quality education for all is to be realised. With all the recent global media coverage around the topic of education, and with such strong endorsement from Nelson Mandela for the campaign: http://www.campaignforeducation.org/news/news.html  and the remarkable GCE plans taking place globally for Action Week  the leaders cannot fail to hear the evidence and the messages around: 'Every Child Needs A Teacher'! Plans for the GCE Global Action Week are focussed around 3 main activities: Creating a dossier – where children and adult learners create a dossier on the subject of teachers in their country ‘Officials Back To School’ Days where officials, political figures and celebrities have been invited back to schools and other learning facilities to meet campaigners who have collected evidence in the form of a dossier. The Officials will be asked to respond to the concerns of the campaigners Big Hearings are being put on nationally and locally across the world where the dossiers created are used to present a national case in support of the issues facing teachers to education policy-makers. The Global Action Week looks set to be truly unique with colourful and innovative activities taking place in villages, towns and cities across the world. Most of the events centre around collecting evidence and research on the lack of teachers, from children producing colourful representations of what their ideal teacher would look like, through to research carried out nationally to identify the extent of the problems for teachers and children due to over crowded classrooms, lack of pay and inadequate training. . Officials are also going back-to-school to witness the poor conditions that teachers and pupils endure, and hear the evidence that children and teachers have gathered which makes the ‘Case For Teachers’. The results of all this work will be presented in the form of ‘dossiers’  to officials at ‘Big Hearings’ where politicians and officials will be called to account  by  millions of GCE campaigners demanding they  keep their promises to provide all children with an education. See below for some more examples of the brilliant events taking place across the world next week and check-out www.campaignforeducation.org for more news of what’s happening during Global Action Week If you can read this, thank a Teacher. Albania Pupils and their teachers will gather in Tirana, on April 27th in order to showcase in lively and attention grabbing ways the best examples of how to integrate pupils who are not in school. This integration has been possible through the special engagement of their teachers, collaborating with school administrations, parents and the pupils themselves. Present in this event will be large groups of teachers from the schools with high drop out rates of pupils. The message to the Ministry of Education and the Governments will be centred on solutions  helping the more than 10 000 pupils who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out of of school. Teachers’ unions have joined the "Albanian GCE  for: A joint press conference, on 25 April, A Big Hearing with parliamentarians A workshop on the role of civil society on the subject of GAW-06 "Every Child needs a  Teacher" A special dossier is being prepared for all of these activities. This will contain information about children who are not able to attend school, the education budget and the problems that teachers face. This will be distributed to the parliamentarians, media and participants in the activities planned to be organised. For more information on the union activities please contact: Stavri Liku at fsash@icc-al.org  For GCE coalition activities: Altin Hazizaj: crca@adanet.com.al Bangladesh An enormous dossier will be created using the hard hitting evidence from a countrywide sample survey, brilliant sketches of children’s ideal teachers,  along with students’ writing on what kind of teacher they want, who is the favourite teacher and why, with photographs of classrooms and other aspects of the school. This will be used for intensive lobbying and local hearings from the grassroots to national level The Big Hearing will then take place in the capital city of Dhaka on 25th April 2006. For more information contact: Rasheda Choudhury:rasheda@campebd.org Mr Mayeen: mayeen@campebd.org Bolivia Colourful ‘fairs’ have been organised across the 3 main cities in Bolivia. At these gatherings groups there will be popular theatre mime art and educational shows on the subject of teachers. Exhibited at these will be all the beautiful work that children have prepared relating to how they see the education situation in their country and what they would like teachers to be and be able to do. For more information contact: Mario Quintanilla Arandia: iipsbol@ceibo.entelnet.bo or marioreinaldo2003@yahoo.es Cameroon As well as holding similar events to across the world in the form of creating a dossier and holding a Big Hearing in Yaounde, Cameroon Education For All Network is planning a documentary on the theme of quality education using real life examples. The issues that will be looked at specifically will be teachers’ pay and the quality of teachers and their training. This will then go out on national networks and then lead to a televised roundtable debate with politicians and teachers’ unions. Chad The National GCE coalition have this year decided to focus their campaign on publicising the issues around teachers through  rural radio shows and the national press.  Local actors will speak out on the radio on messages that have first been written by children with responses from parents and then teachers themselves will give an explanation as to the situation for them through their eyes. These pieces will then form ‘the recommendations for the day’. The same activities will be taking place in the different provinces across Chad and then finally be used in The Big Hearing to a massive live audience. For more information on these events contact: Dewa Anasthasie: foret@intnet.td Or Elisabeth Solkam: tetisolkam@yahoo.fr Egypt The Big Hearing event will take place on May 7th at the Ministry of Education in Cairo. Video conferencing coverage will allow teachers, students, NGO's, Local Task Forces (LTF), educational committees and others involved in education in various governorates around the country to participate and communicate with each other to make it a truly national event. Students from around Egypt have described what they like best in their teacher and what they would like their ideal teacher to be, in order to get the best education possible. These messages from the different governorates will all be added together, to describe the profile of the best teacher.  Contact: Samiha Fares: samihafares@gmail.com Netherlands A Special Day For Teachers is taking place in the Netherlands on Wednesday April 26th. This "study day" will consist of 12 different workshops; all workshops will deal with different aspects of quality education. The goal is to inform the teachers, but also to work together to formulate recommendations on how to work on the quality of education. These will then be presented in the form of a dossier to the Minister of Development cooperation (Mrs Van Ardenne), who will be present on the end of the day to receive them.  Teachers and their organisations from developing countries such as Senegal and Ghana and the teacher of the year from India will take part in the workshops to highlight the issues for teachers. For more information contact: Justine Bolt at Justine.Bolt@oxfamnovib.nl Philippines Nationwide workshops will take place around the Philippines, organised by teachers’ groups, to create beautiful artistic representations of teachers and the challenges they face. In poor urban communities such as Children in the Railway (Batang Riles) in Manila and in Quezon City there will be Art Workshops and discussion sessions where school children get to paint pictures of their ideal teacher.   These will then be displayed as photo –essay exhibitions as well as a Photo Essay focusing on the  themes: “Teachers at Risk” or “One Day in the Life of A Teacher”. Following a ‘profiling of teachers’ via interviews and focus group discussions the issues expressed by teachers will be consolidated in the form of a “Teachers’ Education Agenda” to be presented at the Big Hearing. All the events will then culminate with a theatre presentation entitled:  Titser ng Bayan ( Teacher of the People) on April 29, 2006. For more information contact: Raquel D Castillo secretariat@educ-net.org Or Flora Arellano: actphilippines82@yahoo.com Rwanda People in Rwanda are already getting excited about The Big Hearing is going to take place on May 6th in the country’s national stadium in  Kigali. This event will see marches by pupils, students, teachers, politicians, and a colourful bus signifying Universal Basic Education (UBE) for Rwanda's education for all. This bus will be representing all types of children in Rwanda: in-school, out of school and drop outs! Not surprisingly due to the nature of the event media coverage has already been secured. Hundreds of children, teachers and parents will take part their case to at least 50 politicians to make it truly well noticed by those that matter! The speeches on the day will highlight teacher issues in relation to every child having a right to education for 12 years (Primary to lower Secondary). These include large class sizes, lack of classes, few qualified teachers, high teacher turn over, quality of Curriculum...etc. The enormous dossier on these topics that has been made in the lead up to Action Week will be displayed in the stadium where the event will be taking place for all to see. A comprehensive media campaign on the issue of Every Child Needs A Teacher through both radio as the best medium to engage local people as well as and printed media . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are over one hundred examples of extraordinary events such as these going on all round the world. Keep looking at www.campaignforeducation.org for the latest news of what’s happening during Global Action Week.  If you could read this, thank a teacher. 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