Teacher Appreciation Blog

Civil rights applied to public education teachers have evolved trough history. Before 1969, any of Amendments to the United States Constitution were not applied to students or teachers in the public schools and appreciation society has to teachers was showed applying -Loco parentis.This Latin expression means that teachers had the authority and duty to guide, correct, and punish a child.

However, in U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas words -First Amendment rights, applied in light of the special characteristics of the school environment, are available to teachers and students. It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate .

In base to First Amendment, teachers must have the right to freedom of expression and must have the chance to teach and impart knowledge in the way they think is more appropriate. Any teacher day after day, must have in mind that anything said in school environment can influence students to act in one way or another.

However, even famous teachers must respect others’ rights by respecting their own convictions and religion believes. About religion, any teacher in public school may not lead students in prayer, the recitation of scripture, or any other religious exercise . However, the Supreme Court has also clearly recognized that the study of the Bible and comparative religion in the public school classroom is constitutional because education it is no complete with a complete comparative study of history of religion.

President Obama talked about U.S education system and its problems on -Today NBC’s show on Monday, september 27. In his opinion U.S. students falling in world rankings in math and science are “a sign of long-term decline” that shows the need of a deep reform of education system and teachers appreciation will be an important point on it.

While in the past students from Unites States were ranked at the highest positions, nowadays the United States now ranks 21st in science and 25th in math. In Obama’s words “There are a lot of contributing factors. But part of the challenge, I think, for the entire country is to understand that how well we do economically, whether jobs are created here, high-end jobs to support families and support the future of the American people, is going to depend on whether or not we can do something about these schools.”

When many people is claiming to increase money that country spends on education even in teacher’s day, President says “Money plays a factor, and obviously, there are some schools where money plays a big factor — they don’t have up-to-date textbooks, they don’t have computers in the classroom — so those who say money makes no difference are wrong. On the other hand, money without reform will not fix the problem, and what we’ve got to do is combine a very vigorous reform agenda that increases standards, helps make sure that we’ve got the best possible teachers inside the classroom, makes sure that we’re clearing away some of the bureaucratic underbrush that is preventing kids from learning. We’ve got to combine that with deploying resources effectively,”

President Obama showed his appreciation for teachers: they are “the single-most important ingredient in the classroom.” and his administration is focusing in training 10,000 teachers in math and science fields. Obama said many current teachers “are doing heroic jobs”.

Instructables is a web site where you can find tutorial to do almost everything you need. This tutorias follow DIY (Do It Yourself) principles and most of them are uploaded by its huge community. Surfing that web you can find some awsome ideas to your teacher appreciation gifts.

1. Memories Collage (http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Beautiful-Memories-Collage-for-Hol/) You can make a collage in which you show pictures of all your class mates and your teacher while in class. It is a cheap and adorable gift for any teacher.
2. Word Cloud Art (http://www.instructables.com/id/Teacher-Appreciation-Gift-Sure-to-Please/) This one is specially dedicated to teacher appreciation week 2011 and it is really easy. The final result is surprising Urlimagen=http://www.instructables.com/image/FZQTXZ7FTK8A3CO/Teacher-Appreciation-Gift-Sure-to-Please.jpg
3. Candy and sweets are always well apreciated and this cookie is a mini-box is adorable (http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Perfect-Gift-RAW-Cookie-in-a-Mini-Box/)
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4. A fabric bag with with his/her name it is not only easy to do but really useful in daily life (http://www.instructables.com/id/Last-Minute-Monogrammed-Loot-Bag-Gift/)
5. Men are not so easy to find a gift for. Here you can find a recopilation of gift ideas for them (http://www.instructables.com/id/Gift-Ideas-for-Men/) Some are easier and other ones are for pros but any of them have an amazing tutorial to follow if you want to try.
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And if you want to wrap your gift for teacher day in a different way you can find some ideas here too: Using cereal boxes (http://www.instructables.com/id/Gift-Bags-from-Cereal-Boxes/) or Duct tape (http://www.instructables.com/id/Duct-Tape-Gift-Wrapping/)
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All those want to become teachers in Australia next year will have to demonstrate a good aptitude to teach and they will have to pass tougher test in English and Maths.

Students that want to teach at high school will have to score in the top 30 in English and Maths as it is stipulated in a consultation paper on a national accreditation system for education degrees, released by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership. This released document also increase number of subjects that aspiring teachers will have to study with their degree program.

This new plan was design in April by all Australian’s education ministers and it includes some requirements to universities to train new teachers in subjects as special education, teaching indigenous students, classroom and behavior management, assessment and the use of data. Famous teachers have been always the best ones and these in not work free.

As one of the most important jobs within community ans its influence in future society, this plans tries to attract to teaching profession smart and well qualified men and women as well as replace state-based curriculum of varying quality by a clear rigorous national curriculum. They want community to show their appreciation for teachers who make an effort to do the best while studying to become in one. Well trained teachers can get the best of their students.

As a way to show its support to teachers and all schools workers, the leading food service company offered a free breakfast on its restaurants located in Greenville, Spartanburg and Asheville areas to educational staff during teachers day.
Teachers and educators could get a free breakfast sandwich and a small McCafe coffee on Wednesday August 25 showing a valid school ID from 6.30 am till 10.30 in the morning.
McDonald’s hosted this teachers appreciation promotion as a part of their 365 days a year commitment to education. Julia Skipper , a McDonald’s operator in a restaurant located in Laurens County, said -This small gesture is our way of saying ˜thanks’ to educators for giving our children and communities their best every day.
In addition to local promotions like this one, the food service company sponsors and supports several school, community and educational events all around the States.
It is not only about Schools and educational communities, McDonald’s workers can access a unique scholarship program to get started at college education as well as -Hamburger University, a program that offers graduates a management curriculum a teaches in a total of 28 languages.
Big companies like McDonald’s showing its support to school communities is always a good way to teach children how important it is the work that teachers and educators do everyday during their working life and why students must show their appreciation to them.

Einstein is one of the best well-know characters of twentieth century and the most important physicist in history, also one of the mos famous teachers ever. Regarded as father of modern physics his contributions include theories of relativity and wave-particle duality among much others.
His theories have been recognized for all scientists and some of them are been trying to be demonstrated a nowadays for physicist working at HLC, in French-swiss border.

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany in 1879. Despite he was really smart, he had some troubles at school because his problems to communicate with family and friends. Also teachers in Prussian schools had difficulties to understand his way of thinking.
Meanwhile as a boy he has a strong bond to his uncle, who owned an inventions workshop. Einsteins was really interested on his uncle’s investigations and learn a lot of research books he could find in there.

In 1900 he got Maths and Physics professor degree but as he didn’t get a job teaching he started to work at Federal Office for Intellectual Property, the patent office, in Bern, Switzerland where he worked till 1909.

Eventually University of Bern hired Einsteins as assistant teacher and lecturer in 1908. Three years later, he and his family moved to Prague where ha had got a professor job. In 1913, he was admitted to Prussian Academy of Science in Berlin, where he lived for 13 years and became president of German Physical Society.
Society showed his appreciation for him in different ways, as an example, Einstein was awarded in 1921 the Nobel prize in Physics.
As Nazis party was gaining power in Germany he was compelled to emigrate to Unites States of America where he worked at Princeton University until his death in 1955 caused by an aortic aneurysm. In this time he become a U.S. Citizen in 1940 and he has to struggled with guilty feeling about his own investigations made possible to make atomic bomb.