Monday marked World Teachers’ Day, an annual day to honour educators globally and recognize the contributions they make to furthering education and enhancing society. Teachers in Alberta face ever-expanding classrooms, and increasingly complex classrooms, and the University of Lethbridge’s faculty of education is uniquely positioned to shape the future of teaching in the province. The U of L has recently doubled its early years education cohort thanks to additional funding from the Government of Alberta. The U of L says those investments will help grow the number of teachers in the future. “Being a teacher is an amazing profession and I know there’s lots of talk about the complexity, but there’s not as much talk about the joy that is involved in teaching,” said Lisa Starr, U of L faculty of education dean. “If you like working with small and young humans, if you like the challenge, if you like kind of the dynamic environment, teaching is it and it’s a fairly low-risk career in that it has stability, it has longevity, it has pension. “It has all of those things, and it can create for a great lifestyle and I think that people forget about that part when we talk about all the difficulties.” World Teachers’ Day started in 1994.
