List of Teachers' Days

[3] In China, there are some activities for students to show their appreciation to teachers, such as presenting gifts, including cards and flowers.

The first one mentions that in the city of San Luis Potosí every 15 May, a group of students gathered to celebrate the birthday of their old teacher Isidore, named after Saint Isidore the Laborer, following the Mexican tradition of naming children according to the Saint celebrated the day they were born.

[34] Before 2011, Teachers' Day was celebrated in schools between the months of September and October (mainly elementary and secondary levels).

Groups of students representing various grade levels perform short skits or song and dance numbers, or read poetry for their teachers in front of fellow schoolmates in school-wide activities.

In addition, local education institutes and civil offices award certain teachers for their excellence and positive influence.

[citation needed] Everyone in the UK is encouraged to recognise the impact that the education community has in shaping the minds and futures of our young people on National Thank a Teacher Day.

Mattie Whyte Woodridge (1909-1999), an educator from Helena, Arkansas, wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt, who in 1953 persuaded the 81st Congress to proclaim a National Teacher Day.

The NEA Representative Assembly then voted to make the Tuesday of that week National Teacher Day.

[citation needed] The holiday has its origins in a meeting between educators in communist bloc nations in Warsaw in 1957.