http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/teachers-now-expected-to-also-be-counsellors-data-analysts-unesco-report-20171023-gz6vdy.html

World Teacher's Day is celebrated in October each year and recognises the role played by teachers around the world. The teacher plays a critical role in the development of the child in their care and is a central part of the child's journey through school. The role of the teacher has changed in the last few years and the demands on a teacher continue to grow. The increasing use of data to inform practice and the expectation that the teacher can collect this data effectively and make judgements on it - is just one area of change. Data gathering and student tracking is a relatively new expectation of schools but so is the concept that the teacher should use this data to change teaching practices for individual students. In 2017, all teaching staff for the first time, were appraised on the quality of their lessons and they set personal improvement goals. The last five years has also brought wider research into quality teaching and staff have had to engage with this research and consider their own practice. Expectations around NAPLAN have changed with minimum standards now the language of teachers and students. In 2018  and 2019 nearly every secondary HSC course will change and staff now must engage in these revisions, writing new programmes and finding new resources. All of this come in the context of growing demands on schools to work on student welfare needs. Every day, a teacher has hundreds of interactions and manages a multitude of demands however, 'A 2014 OECD survey of more than four million teachers across 34 countries, including Australia, found that fewer than one in three teachers "reported that teaching was valued". In the complex educational environment in which they operate, it is important that we recogise our teachers and thank them for the important role they play.