Teacher Appreciation Blog

Teacher Appreciation Week 2011 is an event teachers are generally looking forward to. Every teacher across the globe somehow waits for this -celebration because it is a moment where they can be paid tribute with all their hard work and effort.

In the same way, we who are the ones making the celebration visible will also be excited in looking forward to this momentous event.

So if you have not thought as to how you are going to appreciate the national teacher appreciation week in your country, you might want to consider the lists below where you can show that you indeed appreciate teachers in their special day.

Feel free to browse. If you want, you may add up the lists.

1. Send a teacher appreciation card
   Like we said, we will be detailing simple ways here. That’s why, simple as it seem it could be, sending your teacher an appreciation card would means so much to her. You may want to make your own created card or just buy it on stores as you write your most touchable words of appreciation. Simple, yet it is extremely effective in expressing words of gratitude.
2. Participate for a Cause
   There has been a petition going on that actually help -Save Great Teachers nowadays. You may be a person of few words and want to express gratitude by actions, and then you may want to sign for this petition and put students as first priority. Aim that you may keep those teachers who are really working hard to help our children accomplish something.
3. Give a small gift card
   Do you personally appreciate the teacher of your nursery? Giving a small gift card to a store would mean so much for your child’s teacher. You could let your child give the gift for you. By this the teacher can buy supplies for the class without necessarily using her own finances. This would mean a lot to her.
4. Poem Writing or Thank you Letter
   Allow your child to write a poem or thank you letter to his teacher. You can actually help him out if he is younger. The effort you and your child made would make his teacher smile so much because she will know that you also gave the effort to make it. It would mean so much for her.
5. Making a useful bouquet
   Have you noticed that there will always be a sort of vase placed on a teacher’s table? You might want to test your creative skills and make a useful bouquet with pens, pencils, markers, highlighters. That would be too inventive and effortful for someone who deserves such exertion.

Are you familiar with a famous teacher movie of Julia Roberts entitled -Mona Lisa Smile? It was an exciting film of a life of a teacher and how she deals each personality of her -spoiled and high-ranked college students.

It was a tough job for Catherine (Roberts) to implement authority on the students, who used to -bully teachers, but the movie goes to conquering each dilemma and how teacher Catherine, in the end, touched the students’ lives and enabled them to pursue the dreams that they have studied on the first place.

Teacher Catherine was an inspiration, if we make a definition to her. What are indeed the other definitions of teachers from other people? Here are its characterizations:

A teacher is the image of Brahma.
- Manu

The teacher is the maker of man.
- Sir John Adams

The true teacher is he who can immediately come down to the level of the student, transfer his soul to the student’s soul and see through and understand through his mind. Such a teacher can really teach and none else.
- Swami Vivekanand

Every teacher and educationist of experience knows that even the best curriculum and the most perfect syllabus remains dead unless quickened in to life by the right method of teaching and the right kind of teachers.
- Secondary Education Commission

The teacher’s place in society is of vital importance. He acts as the pivot for the transmission of intellectual traditions and technical skills from generation to generation and helps to keep the lamp of civilization burning.
- Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge, but merely repeats his lessons to his students, can only load their minds. He can not quicken them.
- Tagore

These definitions can be used as teacher appreciation ideas when you make your self-made cards or notes for your favorite teachers. These will be very inspiring words of gratitude for teachers who look forward to their most awaited -recognition “the teachers day.

So if you wanted to give something that defines the teacher that you have been looking up to, these definitions would make a fine description. If you want, you can add up the list. Feel free to comment.

Teacher Appreciation Day 2011 is perhaps gradually approaching into your country nowadays. You may be excited, you may be passive. Yet, when this day will surely come, whether you passively welcome or excitingly greet Teacher’s Day, a simple word of appreciation towards teachers is really a heart-warming thing to do for them.

You don’t need to have a favorite teacher just to give words of gratitude. These teachers, whether they are your favorite or not, might be your mother, your sister, your neighbor, or even your friend.

Share these quotes below that appreciate your teacher and I’m sure they will really be touched. Teacher appreciation poems are not the only words you can give to your teachers, you know. Quotes can also be of good thoughts to ponder.

“A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money”
- Anonymous

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.”
- Aristotle

“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.”
- Japanese proverb

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
- Anatole France

“Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.”
- Anonymous

“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”
- Jacques Barzun

“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”
- Karl Menninger

“A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.”
- Anonymous

“The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.”
- William Arthur Ward

“Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.”
- Eugene P. Bertin

“Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.”

- Helen Caldicott

“Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.”

- Anonymous

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

- Jacques Barzun

For all the teachers across the globe, there is none of you who desire nonentity for your student, rather through your profession, you are the person who deal with the true worth of life by means education; developing student’s skills and abilities, and the hopes and dreams of everyone are translated into almost come true because of the weapon that only teachers have geared up all.

As a result, when the Teacher Appreciation Week is coming, everybody supposed to prepare something special for their teachers, but because of the tough economic times it may be difficult to purchase for gifts. Since gifts are great way to say thank to your teacher, see and try the suggested gifts below:

Tote Bag

Buy a tote bag, decorate it with glitters and puff paint. Put on items to fill the bags with teacher’s stuffs. Depending on the personality of the teacher, you can make the teacher appreciate your gift if you add more decorations that connect to your teacher’s like. Color scheme and the style of design will differ upon the teacher’s like.

Teachers Appreciation Poems

Every word to be written in the card for your teachers appreciation poems must captivate the attention of your teacher, and ensure that the words you put will address your teacher in true words. Tell through your poem what you have learned and what your greatest joy while being with your teacher.

Vase

A vase with a bunch of flowers and a personally engraved sign with the name of the teacher on it can surely appreciate the teacher. If you want, try to plant your choice of flower, or possibly the favorite flower of your teacher where he/ she can enjoy years of joy as the flower along with the remembrance of the gift is a memory from you.

There have been lots of wonderful and exciting gift to prepare and give for teachers. People have all different great treat of gratitude to present to the teachers that have lend their hands along the way. But remember that your gift to give for your teacher appreciation does not need to be expensive. Just exert some effort for your gift to look very inspiring and appealing. Happy Teachers Day! Lat us celebrate and give high fives for them across the world over.

Teachers’ function imparted good values and academic comprehension to the people in the whole world. As a result, previous years of teachers appreciation day 2011 and to the forthcoming many years has been celebrated and to celebrate endlessly as an honor of teacher profession; for the contributions they construct to child learning and development and to the society.

In fact because of good ratio between teachers and students in school and beyond school premises, students develop compassion to some of their teachers whom they called their ˜favorite teachers’; whence, these students are making duly preparation when teacher appreciation week is near approaching.

Different countries have different designated teacher appreciation week. It has been a tradition for several countries that during the definite day or week of celebration, a good number of students, teachers, and some local businesses occasionally join to show their appreciation for teachers in a way of giving them recognition awards and gifts.

However, recently this year (2011) a budget deal from the lawmakers in Olympia implemented cut teacher pay by 1.9% and 3% pay for school administrative staff over the next 2 years. As a result, the teacher unions all over the state who have struggled to the protests the cuts for the past few months are not please with the news.

What happen to Olympia? Is the cut due to the world recession? Teachers suppose to receive priorities through their stipend. Even though that the teacher union has disagreed with the legislation of pay cuts for the period of the union negotiations, nonetheless, they have inadequate power to fight for their right.

According to the prepared testimonial by House Ways and Ross Hunter, Means Chairman that was made public in the Seattle Times ” -This isn’t the budget any of us would have written, given the choice. But our job is to make the most responsible decisions we can in these tough times. I think we do that in this budget. It is thoughtful and sustainable. ” where the amount of pay cuts to $179 million and $4 billion are in part of cuts projected by the lawmakers to plug a budget deficit amount of $5 billion in the state.

A spokesperson for the Washington Education Association, Rich Wood said that the budget cut has finely ripped over $2 billion from K-12 and higher education that could probably hurt students. The result of the cut could possibly cause the following:

1. Cannot not keep and catch the attention of high quality teachers
2. Can be the ground of severe over-crowding of classrooms
3. It can affect the quality of education

And above outcome is not good at all! Wood added that the said budget cuts fund for larger than 1,000 education jobs. Next year there are expected to be more students but fewer teachers. He concluded, -The legislature did not really focus on kids when they prepared this budget.

As far as celebrating the Teacher’s Day is concerned, teacher appreciation poems are not the only things you can break during this event.

Even jokes can make a difference.

If you’re looking for teacher jokes to crack for the Teacher Appreciation Day, you might want to care to read these jokes below and burse yourself into laughter.

Joke #1

Summer vacation was over and Little Johnny returned back to school.
Only two days later his teacher phoned his mother to tell her that he was misbehaving.
“Wait a minute,” she said. “I had Johnny with me for three months and I never called you once when he misbehaved!”

Joke #2

A little girl came home from school and said to her mother, “Mommy, today in school I was punished for something that I didn’t do.”
The mother exclaimed, “But that’s terrible! I’m going to have a talk with your teacher about this … by the way, what was it that you didn’t do?”
The little girl replied, “My homework.”

Joke #3

The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: “Take only ONE. God is watching.”
Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. A child had written a note, “Take all you want. God is watching the apples.”

Joke #4

The teacher came up with a good problem. “Suppose,” she asked the second-graders, “there were a dozen sheep and six of them jumped over a fence. How many would be left?”
“None,” answered little Norman.
“None? Norman, you don’t know your arithmetic.”
“Teacher, you don’t know your sheep. When one goes, they all go!”

Joke #5

Teacher: Why are you late, Joseph?
Joseph: Because of a sign down the road.
Teacher: What do the sign have to do with your being late?
Joseph: The sign said, “School Ahead, Go Slow!”

Joke #6

A man in a hurry taking his eight-year-old son to school made a turn at a red light where it was prohibited.
“Uh-oh, I think I just made an illegal turn!” the man said.
“It’s okay, Dad,” the boy said, “The police car right behind us did the same thing.”

Joke #7

Two men were sitting next to each other at a bar.
After a while, one guy looks at the other and says, “I can’t help but think, from listening to you, that you’re from Ireland.”
The other guy responds proudly, “Yes, that I am!”
The first guy says, “So am I! And where abouts from Ireland might you be?”
The other guy answers, “I’m from Dublin, I am.”
The first guy responds, “Sure and begora, and so am I! And what street did you live on in Dublin?”
The other guy says, “A lovely little area it was, I lived on McCleary Street in the old central part of town.”
The first guy says, “Faith & it’s a small world, so did I! And to what school would you have been going?”
The other guy answers, “Well now, I went to St. Mary’s of course.”
The first guy gets really excited, and says, “And so did I. Tell me, what year did you graduate?”
The other guy answers, “Well, now, I graduated in 1964.”
The first guy exclaims, “The Good Lord must be smiling down upon us! I can hardly believe our good luck at winding up in the same bar tonight. Can you believe it, I graduated from St. Mary’s in 1964 my own self.”
About this time, another guy walks into the bar, sits down, and orders a beer.
The bartender walks over shaking his head & mutters, “It’s going to be a long night tonight, the Murphy twins are drunk again.”

Appreciation poems are not the only phrases you could render to your teacher during their most-awaited day of their career. If there is what you call poems to appreciate teachers, then there are also songs that you can give to them to show appreciative you are to them.

Do you want to check the songs? The lyrics are written then. Hope you enjoy its lyrics and how it conveys your message to the teacher you look to as an inspiration.

This Is A Beautiful Song
By Elton John

She was long and she was lean
She’s a middle-aged dream
And that lady means the whole world to me
It’s a natural achievement
Conquering my homework
With her image pounding in my brain
She’s an inspiration
For my graduation
And she helps to keep the classroom sane
Oh teacher I need you like a little child
You got something in you to drive a schoolboy wild
You give me education in the lovesick blues
Help me get straight come out and say
Teacher I, teacher I, teacher I, Teacher I need you
I have to write a letter
Tell about my feelings
Just to let her know the scene
Focus my attention
On some further education
In connection with the birdies and the bees
So I’m sitting in the classroom
I’m looking like a zombie
I’m waiting for the bell to ring
I’ve got John Wayne stances
I’ve got Erroll Flynn advances
And it doesn’t mean a doggone thing

Teacher Teacher
By Dragonette

I’m so glad to finally reach ya
You know how I wanna treat ya
You’re my very favorite teacher, teacher
It’s my turn to learn ya something
Won’t no one be omethi’ us in
No one ever tells on teacher, teacher
If it’s against the rules
I won’t go back to school

Don’t know too much but I know enough
I learned a little bit about the good stuff
Not too much but I know enough
I learned the good stuff

Tell me where to meet ya, teacher
So I can complete ya, teacher
A little one on one will get things done
Daddy said he’s going to beat ya
Mama’s going to call the preacher
Teacher you an I we’re on the run
So it’s against the rules
I won’t go back to school

Don’t know too much but I know enough
I learned a little bit about the good stuff
Not too much but I know enough
I learned a little bit about the good stuff
I learned a little bit about the good stuff
I learned a little bit about the good stuff
I learned a little bit about the good stuff
I learned a little bit about the good stuff

(Good stuff) I learned a little bit about the good stuff

Got omething’ I wanna teach ya
Demonstrate my favorite feature
Betcha that you’ll like this teacher, teacher
I’m so glad to finally reach ya
You know how I’m gonna treat ya
You’re my very favorite teacher, teacher

Don’t know too much but I know enough
I learned a little bit about the good stuff
Not too much but I know enough
I learned a little bit about the good stuff
Don’t know too much but I know enough
I learned a little bit about the good stuff
Not too much but I know enough
I learned a little bit about the good stuff

School Day
By: Chuck Berry

p in the mornin’ and out to school
The teacher is teachin’ the Golden Rule
American history and practical math
You studyin’ hard and hopin’ to pass
Workin’ your fingers right down to the bone
And the guy behind you won’t leave you alone

Ring, ring goes the bell
The cook in the lunch room’s ready to sell
You’re lucky if you can find a seat
You’re fortunate if you have time to eat
Back in the classroom, open your books
Keep up the teacher don’t know how mean she looks

Soon as three o’clock rolls around
You finally lay your burden down
Close up your books, get out of your seat
Down the halls and into the street
Up to the corner and ’round the bend
Right to the juke joint, you go in

Drop the coin right into the slot
You’re gotta hear somethin’ that’s really hot
With the one you love, you’re makin’ romance
All day long you been wantin’ to dance,
Feeling the music from head to toe
Round and round and round we go

Hail, hail rock and roll
Deliver me from the days of old
Long live rock and roll
The beat of the drums, loud and bold
Rock, rock, rock and roll
The feelin’ is there, body and soul

All of us want to show gratitude to our teachers during teacher appreciation week. This only happens annually and we really want to make the most of this event. Even if some people may be too passive or pays little and no regard with how the teachers give great effort for their students, there are some who recognize such effort and want to really show appreciation with what they are doing.

Those people may be just like you.

That’s why, as a token of appreciation to all the teachers around the world, we have provided various ways to celebrate their much-awaited event.

1. Make and display posters, fliers, and banners in schools and even in your local community to promote Teacher Appreciation Week. That would make such simple effort but big impact not just towards your teacher but even to other teachers in your community as well.
2. Discuss creative ways to honor teachers in your school with other students. If you are a parent, you might also want to include the parents of your child’s classmates. The more people who makes discussions like these, the more ideas come up, and I’m sure, you’ll end up to a more wonderful and innovative ideas.
3. Come up with suggestions along with your school principal about significant ways to honor the teachers under his/her administration. Definitely, such person in a position can think of various ways perhaps much better than you have, so it’s good to be informative.
4. Adding people within your group like businessmen, community groups, and even area merchants to involve in such participation makes the appreciation more enjoyable.
5. Give teachers some positive feedbacks on their ways and methods of teaching and how it has affected you as a person. You may do this by sending them thank-you notes. Of course, you might also want other parents and students to do the same. It would do so much for the teachers.
6. Design a resource file for your school that includes your parent and families’ names that might be willing to use their skills to assists teachers on projects and activities.
7. Do you have publishing skills? Print out proclamations in the PTA newsletter then and you can actually post these in the school.
8. If you want to go this far, you might want to go to the office of the mayor or county board of supervisors to send a request a proclamation in observance of the Teacher Appreciation Week in your locale.
9. Think about beginning a year-long project to tell your teachers how important they are.

Isn’t it inspiring to become an inspiration to your teachers as well? We are not close to the idea that they are the only ones who can become an inspiration. We, students or pupils in general, can become inspirations to them too.

That’s why, this teacher’s day, let us keep on extending our gratitude to our dearly beloved teachers by giving them teacher appreciation poems. You may or may not make your own poems depending on your talents and skills, but when it comes to creativity, the sky is honestly the limit.

I have here the lists of the various teacher appreciation poems you can give to your teachers on their most awaited celebration “the teachers day. Enjoy these poems and I hope these can fully express your stances on what you feel towards your teacher.

Wonderful Teacher

With a special gift for learning
And with a heart that deeply cares,
You add a lot of love
To everything you share,
And even though
You mean a lot,
You’ll never know how much,
For you helped
To change the world
Through every life you touched.
You sparked the creativity
In the students whom you taught,
And helped them strive for goals
That could not be bought,
You are such a special teacher
That no words can truly tell
However much you’re valued
For the work you do so well.

Number One Teacher
By Joanna Fuchs
(Name of teacher),

I’m happy that you’re my teacher;
I enjoy each lesson you teach.
As my role model you inspire me
To dream and to work and to reach.

With your kindness you get my attention;
Every day you are planting a seed
Of curiosity and motivation
To know and to grow and succeed.

You help me fulfill my potential;
I’m thankful for all that you’ve done.
I admire you each day, and I just want to say,
As a teacher, you’re number one!

A brand new day is dawning
A brand new day is dawning
And as it gets its start,
I want you know I am thinking
Of you with warmth in my heart.

I hope your birthday is special,
No one deserves it more than you!
You are such a kindhearted person,
It shows in everything that you do.

So, have a perfect morning
And an even lovelier day…
May happiness surround you
Always…. not just for today!

Lessons Learned

Thank you for what you taught me
and for helping me to grow.
You have expanded so much my learning
and taught me what I know.

You are someone I will never forget
Nor the lessons I have learned
For they will never be wiped clean
They’re in my memory burned.

Imparter of Knowledge
Teacher and advisor
Counselor and friend
Imparter of knowledge
Which never has an end.

All these things you were to me
And I’m thankful to this day.
I have now succeeded
And you helped show me the way.

Because of You
Sharon Hendricks

A teacher is a person
Who helps you every day.
Who scolds you when you’re bad
And helps you find your way.

Thanks for what you did for me,
for teaching me something new.
For I would not be here today
If it hadn’t been for you.

Answers
Each day you stood before us
and gave to us your time.
You gave to us your patience
and helped expand our minds.

Thanks for what you gave me
And for what you have taught.
You helped me with the questions
For the answers I have sought.

Teaching is the single and primary most important profession across the globe. Teachers are the one who pass right values and knowledge to their students through education. They are the one who prepare everyone for working life. Whether you are a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer, or a manager in a reputed company, do not forget that you bestow proper knowledge regarding your career under the principal supervision of a teacher.

That is why, teachers are known to be the vital line of profession and the main contributors of the industries operators and in any fields of work to good education, that basically ended up to the success of the society. But unfortunately in majority of the most developing countries, teaching does not seems appealing to qualified and striving people for it is unsuccessfully remunerated.

Because of the duly effort of teachers they deserve a day attribute for their hard work. The great teachers build a great school. Teacher appreciation week has been acknowledge in thousands of communities all over the world to honor the teachers for their significant roles in constructing and playing to certify each student’s quality education.

And when this week is approaching, students together with their parents are starting to plan for ideas what to give to their teachers, because students develop special relationships with their teachers.

One of the idyllic preparations to give for the teachers is luncheon. This is a good opportunity to say Thank You to them in personal. To organize a gathering for lunch with the invited teachers and some classmates to serve a meal often offered pleasure and entertainment; for sure, teachers will appreciate the idea.

Teachers’ Luncheon

Call your classmates and ask for their participation. Plan the most effective way to you’re your teacher’s appreciate during the teacher appreciation week. Each participant must do their part to prepare a teacher luncheon buffet. This is nice to serve in the teachers’ lounge with the teacher’s favorite foods and decorations around such as a large banner with each student’s signature.

Add up cards from every student to hand over to their favorite teachers. Additionally, why not make a short speech from the heart how their chosen teachers played the very important role in student’s life that molded them to become extraordinary person and how the teachers helped them through the years of their academic school? In such a way, teachers will thoroughly enjoy the day!