Link between quality education, well-being of teachers: Sadtu
The South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) has listed the challenges that schools would need to overcome if the education sector is to recover properly from the global Covid-19 pandemic.
The country is marking World Teachers' Day.
Sadtu says the theme ‘Teachers at the Heart of Education Recovery’ places a heavy load on the shoulders of educators still grappling with the effects of the crisis.
It says aside from the untold disruptions to schooling and the economy a total of 1 650 teachers lost their lives in the first year of the pandemic alone.
The union says in order for education recovery to become a reality, the well-being of teachers needs to be brought into sharp focus.
It's called for more investment for training - and says those teachers who've had to quickly adapt to new ways of teaching and learning themselves to contend with the pandemic, need improvements to their working conditions.
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