World Teachers' Day
The teacher plays an important and essential role in shaping future generations, educating them, imparting knowledge and sciences, and preserving and transmitting national heritage and culture. In addition, the teacher is an active partner with parents and families in instilling values and good morals.
If we want to ensure that future generations receive quality education that qualifies them to participate in nation-building and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, we must give importance to preparing teachers, focus on their training, and work to enhance their knowledge, scientific, and professional capacities. Despite all the advanced educational tools that technology offers today, including artificial intelligence programs, the need for skilled and dedicated teachers remains essential. Teachers cannot be replaced; they are the true driving force behind the educational process, the transmission of values and ethics, and the enrichment of learning. They bring the educational process to life, strengthen social bonds within the school community, identify talented students, develop their skills, encourage creativity, instill a spirit of healthy competition, and enhance their ability to face challenges and solve problems.
A teacher’s responsibilities encompass multiple roles, including the educational role, the moral and values-based role, the social role, the national role, the nurturing role, and the leadership role.
By training teachers on how to use artificial intelligence in designing educational programs that address the individual needs of each student, it becomes possible to provide opportunities for accessing information beyond classroom hours. This requires guiding students to uphold scientific values and view artificial intelligence as a tool for explanation and learning, not as a replacement for their own minds in thinking, analyzing, acquiring, and developing knowledge and science.
Therefore, the more the systems of science and technology advance, the greater the need becomes for teachers who can keep pace with this progress and have the ability to harmonize these tools and programs with their human role in the educational and upbringing process. Teachers serve as role models who encourage students to adopt principles of respect, cooperation, commitment, responsibility, teamwork, and good behavior, which ultimately contribute to preparing responsible citizens capable of building a stable and advanced society.
The teacher’s contribution cannot be confined to shaping generations and communities. They are the ones who prepare and equip societies with human capacities capable of advancing, developing, and sustaining all that ensures the preservation of developmental achievements.
Despite all that has been mentioned, the teacher needs effective mechanisms to communicate with society and must be well-informed about developments, changes, and influences that may affect students. This enables them to elevate students’ awareness and channel their energies toward thinking and analysis. To achieve this, the teacher must cooperate with parents, which will positively impact the upbringing of future generations, their intellectual and cognitive development, their sense of belonging to their homeland, their attachment to their authentic culture, and their alignment with the goals of their leadership throughout their lives.
All appreciation and gratitude go to teachers. We will always take pride in their achievements and their role, which represents the fundamental pillar in advancing education at all levels.
Fatima bint Mubarak
