2025 World Teachers' Day fact sheet

World Teachers’ Day 2025 calls for recasting teaching as a collaborative profession. This fact sheet presents new global and regional data on teacher workforce growth, training and qualifications, and examines how collaboration can be cultivated across teachers’ careers – from initial teacher education and induction to continuing professional development. It highlights promising approaches to peer learning, mentoring and collective action, showing how collaboration can strengthen teaching quality, support teacher retention, enhance learning outcomes, and empower teachers to contribute as agents of change in their schools and communities.