Best teachers of 2021 year awarded prizes on occasion of professional day in Moldova

Chisinau, 5 October /MOLDPRES/ - The best teachers of the 2021 year today were awarded prizes at a Laureates’ Gala, on the occasion of the Professional Day of the Education Sector Employees.

The winners of the contest, The Teacher of the Year – 2021, were classified in three categories: in the field of early education, pre-school cycle; elementary and gymnasium/lyceum education. Nine out of the best educators, teachers and professors were awarded prizes worth 15,000 lei for the third position, 25,000 lei for the second position and 50,000 lei for the first position.   

„In the last decade, we were witnesses of the phenomenon of teachers’ repositioning. We followed various kinds of rankings, ratings of the professions of the future. Each of us, probably, wonderers whether our profession will be among them and whether will  be useful in the long run, taking into consideration the information explosion, as well as the advanced development of the technologies. The pandemic has showed both us and the entire world that we are and we will remain absolutely indispensable for this society, that there cannot be kindergartens without educators, as well as neither schools without teachers,’’ Education and Research Minister Anatolie Topala said at the festivity.      

Topala noted that he personally, passing all steps of the professional hierarchy, knows the fissures of the sector. ‘’Yet, I think that, by consolidated effort, we can change the things for the better. In my capacity of education minister, I will speak out, in continuation, for meritocracy, for transparency, objectiveness, correctness, integrity, for the turning to good account of the potential of each of you. I will continue to focus all energy to solve the problems, to improve the situation, reforming the system,’’ the official stressed.      

Also, Anatolie Topala urged the teachers to be united. ‘’I urge you to be united. I would like more pronounced, more obvious guild solidarity. Let us support each other, so that none of our colleagues feels lonely, abandoned, marginalized in any situation,’’ the education minister also said.   

The World Teacher’s Day, annually marked on 5 October, was established by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It marks the signing, in 1966, of the UNESCO/IOM (International Organization for Migration) Recommendation on the status of teachers. This recommendation, along with the one on higher education, from 1997, represents the principal reference framework for the approaching of the rights and duties of the teachers worldwide.   

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