Teacher Appreciation Blog

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.

Look at the video right here

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 Fan Page: This page has 439 persons liking it and shows how much we appreciate our teachers
2. Teacher Appreciation Week: a good page which is frequently being updated

For the best groups, there are more results:

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.