Philipsburg- Commissioner responsible for Education Affairs Sarah Wescot-Williams, is adding her voice to the appeal made by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the crucial role that teachers have to play in fostering the global citizen of tomorrow who transcends national borders to tackle the problems of the world at large.Teachers have been challenged to do their part in raising awareness among students in schools about the issues the world currently faces, and the need for international cooperation in addressing them.
The two crises at the moment are the global financial crisis and climate change and both demonstrate powerfully the limits of boundaries and borders in thinking about problems that influence and threaten all of us.
The teachers role is crucial in communicating to global citizens-in-the-making what it means to live in an increasingly interdependent community where we are accountable not just to ourselves and our families, communities and countries, but also to the people throughout the world.
"I concur with the UN Secretary General when he says that teachers can help students grow into this notion of a global civic identity, and understand how their decisions have an impact ranging well beyond their immediate vicinity," Commissioner of Education Sarah Wescot-Williams told the Government Information Service (GIS).