Teachers' Day in Panama
Teachers' Day in Panama is held on December 1. This event in the first decade of the month December is annual. 
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The average salary for teaching in Panama is $900 - $1,500 per month.
The Panamanian education system is divided into three stages: basic, secondary and tertiary. Basic education covers students from ages four to 15 and is split into three levels: pre-school, primary and pre-middle school. Pre-school consists of two years for four- to five-year-old children.
The 1943 Interamerican Conference on Education, held in Panama, established 11 September as Panamerican Teacher's Day.
Today in Panama Teachers' Day is celebrated on December 1st. To commemorate the birth date of Manuel José Hurtado, who is known as the father of Panamanian education because of his promotion of modern universal education through the establishment of the first public schools and teachers' colleges in what is now known as Panama — then part of Colombia – aiming to break the vicious cycle of ignorance and poverty that afflicted the vast majority of the population. He went on to be named Director-General of Public Instruction of the State of the Isthmus.
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