A foundation of which Oscar winner Emma Thompson is president gives annually Teaching Awards in the English regions, Northern Ireland and in Wales too.
The aim of this awards is to recognize how important it is the work that teachers do every day at schools and provides the opportunity that students, parents and community celebrate with teachers their daily effort. It is more than only celebrate a teacher appreciation day.
The ceremony has been celebrating since 1998 and it is hosted by BBC presenters.
The process is simple: someone within the school community nominees the teacher and add a endorsement from the headmaster of the school. Next the nomination is judged by leading educationists and former Teaching award winners. Finally, winners receive their award in regional ceremonies held all over UK during summer term.
A weekend for winners,including a gala, is held in autumn. During this weekend is performed the final ceremony in, which national Teaching awards winners, are announced is filmed and broadcasting by the BBC turning that day in teacher’s day.
The appreciation that teachers can feel by being nominated is really important for them as Rhoda Edwards, a Teaching Awards winner, says : “Being Nominated for a Teaching Award was wonderful. The whole school felt valued and so proud. Pupils, teachers, parents, governors; we all felt that someone had made a special effort to turn around and say ‘well done’ what a fantastic feeling”
There are organizations created to support teachers and represent them in society so they can get civil and working right. Here you have most important ones in America
Association of American Educators (AAE): Largest United States teachers association. One of their challenges it is to work so the American teachers get the respect, recognition, appreciation and reward they deserve. AAE claims to “help lead a coalition of nearly 300,000 teachers across the country who have joined a non-union teacher association.”
American Federation of Teachers, AFT was founded in 1916 as a labor union and in 2008 represented more than 800,000 teachers and school related personnel. AFT as a partner in the “Campaign for Children’s Health Care” in a press release stated “It is a moral imperative to ensure that all children have adequate healthcare coverage.” Some famous teachers were AFT members as Albert Einstein or Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel.
National Council for the Social Studies was founded in 1922 and it is devoted to support social studies educations. Its members are social studies teachers not only from USA but from 69 different countries.
The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) is a non-profit, international organization. Founded in 1981, headquarters are located in Chesapeake, VA. Its members are all interested in information technology and education.
Music Teachers National Association (or MTNA). This organization with headquarters in Cincinnati has more than 22,000 members. It was founded in 1876 and nowadays it supports programs to assist music students and teachers.
While looking teacher appreciation gift ideas maybe you can contact any of these organizations and they will give you good advice.
The teacher’s day is celebrated on first tuesday of May within the teacher appreciation week but the exacts origins are still unknonw and the actual date has changed through the years. Even today Massachusets celebrates his own teachers day on first Sunday of June.
It is believed that a teacher from Arkansas contact politicians and educational leaders in 1944 trying to find support to recognized how important teachers work is. Finally in 1953 Eleanor Roosvelt persuaded the U.S. Congress to establish a National Teacher Appreciation Week.
National Education Association describes this date as “a day for honoring teachers and recognizing the lasting contributions they make to our lives”. Usually students honors their teacher with appreciation poems , crafts or small gifts but it is uncertain where this custome came from.
Become a teacher is decision you should make being aware that that is not an easy jobs. You must be sure that you could manage teacher jokes and you won’t be mad at first problems students will set you.
If, despite all you still want to become a teacher there a few thing you may like to know:
Public school teachers in every state must have a bachelor’s degree and if you would like to teach an specific subject as mathematics, sciences or art it is better that your degree is related to it.
Ir order to get a job in public system you will need to complete an approved teacher training program or even a master’s degree with a certain amount of credits in subjects as educational skills, practical training, teaching students, …
Anyone who wants to teach must have certain abilities to communicate, motive and inspire students so these can do the better they can. Famous teachers in the world have this skills and their are able to keep pupil’s attention to what they are saying.
Talking about salary, as higher level education is , higher the amount of money you get for your work. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a range of teacher’s earning from $ 26,000 in 2007 for preschool teachers to $ 52, 540 for average secondary school teacher.
Teaching involves a wide knowledge about subject being taught which requires a lot of studies and preparation. Some times this effort it is not considered by students or their families but you will always have teacher appreciation day
When teacher appreciation week is coming you can hear many people complaining about work teachers do is no so hard and they wish they have a job as easy a teaching. However there are many myths about this job and its professed advantages.
Teachers have too many vacation so what do they get an extra teacher day?
Kids at home doesn’t mean that teachers are not working. They need to finish all documentation at the end of the year and they have to set and prepare the new classes before the next course begin.
Being a kindergarten teacher it is the easiest job ever.
Despite you think that the kindergarten teacher is only reading books to children they have to be responsible for at least 14 kids that can stop just for a second and if, they are not under constant supervision, a child can swallow anything that is in the classroom.
They feel supported and have the appreciation of parents
Sadly, that’s not true. In many cases teachers have to fight with a really negative environment to kids learning. Sometimes parents even take away teachers authority in front of their children.
Teachers are doing that job because they couldn’t find anything better.
This could be true for some people but most of them really like teaching are really aware about their students development at school and adult life.
Thinks about it and during next teacher appreciation week 2011 show your current or past favorite teacher how much he o she helped you and how you managed to turn in a responsible grown up.
Is it good to accept what every state senator says without questioning it? And moreover, can we believe everything they say? I am starting to doubt it after this spectacular interview of a high school student with AZ state senator John Huppenthal.
The student was asking a few basic questions about the subject of the massive budget cuts in education, especially the ones to Technical and Career Education funding. Huppenthal, on his website called as “one of the leading authorities on education issues”, talks during the interview about how important he thinks Career and Technical education programs are and how the cuts in the budget are “simply horrendous”. When the student asked him why he voted yes on the bill about the budget cuts in May 2009, Huppenthal asks for more information and starts to laugh nervously. Afterwards he stands up and says he will be right back but the young interviewer is still waiting for his return.
Alter talking about the Bing campaign last week, I want to highlight a noble deed from another huge company. I am talking about The McDonalds stores in Triad Aria who organised their own Teacher Appreciation Day two weeks ago to thank teachers for their outstanding performances in and out classrooms.
During the last week of school, teachers could get free breakfast at McDonalds on Wednesday with as result that dozens of teachers were standing in line to get a free breakfast sandwich and a drink. This is a small gesture but different teachers say that it means a lot for them to get these small kinds of recognitions. It shows that people in the community do appreciate the teachers and it feels good for them to know.
It is not the first time that McDonalds holds these kinds of promotions. For instance in the Triad Aria they raised more than 50000 dollars for local schools. This is a great teacher appreciation gift and teachers will remember this.
Bing is a web search engine that has been elaborated by Microsoft in 2009. With its new campaign the search engine highlights the importance of Teacher Appreciation, in combination with generating traffic towards their website of course.
The campaign starts of with placing an apple, a box of crayons, a pad of paper and a letter from Bing on the desks of teachers all over the United States. On the letter you can read that teachers spend more than 1.000 dollars out of their own pockets for their classrooms and that this number will rise with the budget cuts that are being executed. Therefore Bing says that it needs the help of the students to do something about it. Students around the whole world can share their story about a certain teacher on their website .In return, the children cannot only see their posts on a map on the website, but Bing also mails it to the teacher’s school and gives a 5 dollar donation for every post shared on the website.
I think this is a good campaign because not only does Bing get more attention but they actually do something good for our society. By expressing our appreciation, we can help our teachers to make the school a better environment for everyone.
We all know how big the influence of social media is these days. That is why I want to give you a few more good pages on social media concerning Teacher Appreciation.
First of all I want to take a look at the best pages on Facebook concerning teachers.
1. Teacher Appreciation Week: This is a group with over 3500 members. With its videos, pictures and stories, It’s probably one of the best groups you can find.
2. Another interesting group is Teacher Appreciation: with its good advice for different gifts and fresh ideas, the group could be interesting for you.
3. Furthermore, you have got the organisation called Teachers: here you can find different stories and more information about Teacher Appreciation.
4. The last Facebook group I want to share with you is called Teacher Appreciation 2010 and it’s specially designed for those students who had a great teacher and want the rest of the world to hear about it.
On Twitter you can find a good account called loveurteacher, which offers different tweets and has 139 followers.
On the 15th of May, students from South Korea, Mexico and Colombia celebrated their teacher appreciation by organising a couple of events.
In South Korea, there were a lot of events held in Seoul, the capital, on teacher’s day. For example, people gathered in an elementary school to read books to children at a certain school and on another school parents, students and teachers organised and participated in a sports event.
In Mexico teacher appreciation day has even been a national holiday since 1918. The Mexican teacher day is one of the top 25 teacher celebration days in the world. Many college and university students organise special parties for their professors and some of the universities also give out cash awards to teachers. There are also many public schools, in which students perform songs, dances,… to show their gratitude. Furthermore, one of the traditional activities is giving love cards to the teachers.
While in Colombia there are special school activities with songs, folk and modern dances, poems and other performances. Furthermore there are also some parties organised for teacher. But the teacher’s day celebration is not this important as in other countries:
As you can see, every country celebrates this special day in their own way with their own habits. We all feel the urge to give something back to our teachers. As long as we all know that we need to respect them and show our appreciation, it’s fine in whichever way we do this.
