Teacher Appreciation Blog

Is your teacher important for you? We should all give value to our teachers because they stand as our second parents. In fact, 5 days of the week 8 hours per day, we are together with our teachers rather than our parents. When national teacher appreciation week approaches, make an honorable action for your teacher by simply giving him or her a gift. In such a way you can make her happy and proud of him/ herself too for the gratitude.

Teachers gifts are plentiful. You can give teacher poems or maybe crafted gifts. So why not make a special, simple, homemade gift that is affordable to put up with your budget for your much loved teacher? Anyway since Christmas Day is coming, learn how to gift wrap your gift so that it will look more fabulous and attractive to your teacher.

Christmas only happens once a year, but this can be the right time to show your appreciation to your teacher if ever the national teacher appreciation week in your country has already ended. You can give away teacher gifts year round for ample of reasons anyway.

With so many ways to quickly personalize the gift wrapping, try to create your own custom in this regard. You can also use and make unique gift toppers. So, if you give a present, do without expensing too much. Learn how to gift wrap and see the instructions below:

Gift Wrapping Ideas and Methods

• It is nice to reuse special news story that is interesting to share. You can cut the part of the newspaper and wrap the present using that page, just make sure to put in front the highlight of the story you want to share to your teacher that remind you of the offering’s recipient.
• Make a ribbon flower to add an idealistic touch to any gift. You can also create small ones to put even on the greeting cards. To do this, you need to fold the ribbon in a unique pattern back and forth until it is all packed up; pull on one of the unfastened ends and it will automatically arranges itself into a shape of flower which actually nice and cool to see.
• In the wrapper, you can put some glitters or sequins to make it more attractive.

These gift ideas are just the thing to give as a present for national teacher appreciation week!

Have you ever wondered why Teacher Appreciation Day is annually celebrated especially for teachers? Yes, we all know teaching is a special kind of profession, and we honestly couldn’t deny that. But I was also wondering, why don’t we celebrate Engineer Appreciation Day or Doctor Appreciation Day? Why is it that when it comes to teachers, we always have a soft spot in our hearts?

In my country, teachers are considered to be the modern heroes of today. Our country acknowledges the bravery of the people in our past, especially when those people fought for my country’s liberty and independence. We were once a captured nation during the late 18 hundreds, but thanks to them we are now considered free. As of today, the heroes that we now recognized are the teachers.

Teaching is honestly not a very easy job, frankly speaking. Some may took this profession for granted and even mock at the position the status quo has placed in it. Worse, there are even some who doesn’t pay the necessary wage worthy of the teaching career. They think teaching is a low-class occupation. It provides little amount of salary; has to deal with mischievous kids all the time; talk to blabbering parents; and even get accused of libel for pointing out that your student did not make his assignment. Not a very encouraging situation, isn’t it?

But some teachers still continue to pursue such profession because most believe that teaching is not just what you’ve learned in college. It’s actually what you are passionate with. If someone is passionate about teaching, that person is not motivated with the biggest salary, or even discouraged having undisciplined students. When teachers are teachers for real, they are able to withstand all these circumstances. Yes, thankful are the teachers for the big salary, (they honestly deserve it anyway), but real teachers are not stimulated for money. They are motivated with their passion to impart knowledge; to grow kids into responsible and law-abiding citizens; to shape the future of their students. Engineers build buildings, businessmen build investments, but teachers are actually the builders of all these builders as well. Teachers build engineers, businessmen, doctors, and all kinds of profession. That’s the best part of being a teacher.

That’s why teachers have their own special day. They deserve such teacher appreciation. If you’re thinking of protesting, think again.

Teachers really have multi-faceted roles. They can be a teacher, but they can also be a parent, a mentor, a disciplinarian, a friend, a shoulder to cry on, a lunch date, etc. That’s why on Teacher’s Day, teachers can be appreciated in various ways as well. Teacher poems, for example, are recommended as the simplest but most heart whelming teacher appreciation gift ideas.

Looking for poems to appreciate your teachers? Here are four on the lists.

My Teacher
- Maryam Mashhadi

Thank you, my teacher, for being there
At times when skies were gray

Thank you, my teacher, for lending an ear
When I had things to say
You showered love on me lavishly
When no one seemed to care
You brought me joys untold
To fill my heart with moments of gold
I would have felt isolated and lonely
If you had not been there
I lack the words to let you know
How much you mean to me,
But I will profusely thank God for you
Until the Eternity.

Teacher Appreciation Poem
- Author Unknown

T is for talented that you surely are
E is for explaining so patiently
A is for the ability to make the class fun
C is for correcting us when we were wrong
H is for helping us in every way
E is for encouraging us to do our best
R is for rare, there is only one of you!
So thank you special teacher; we think you’re great too!

Tribute To A Teacher
- Myrna Beth Lambert

We held their hands the first day of school.
Our hearts were filled with pride.
There was an aura of fear and apprehension
As we stood close to their side.

We deposited our children at your door,
Our most precious and prized possessions.
We trusted that you would give them more
Then Reading and Writing lessons.

Our unspoken words were, give them self worth.
They are little children, respect their rights.
Teach them with love and remember compassion.
Use a firm hand to break up their fights.

As the years went by, you did us proud
With your guiding hand and understanding smile.
You gave much more then we expected.
That was your way, your undeniable style.

What higher tribute can we pay a teacher?
To what greater heights can he ascend?
Than to have his students praise his work,
And to say “He is my friend.”

You Are My Special Teacher
- Author Unknown

You are my special teacher
I just want you to know
I always had fun in your class
How the time has flown!

Thank you for helping me
To learn all that I know
I will always remember you
Even when I’m grown!

I’ll miss you being my teacher
I know the reason why
I am feeling very sad
Because it’s time to say goodbye

Teacher’s Day is one of the most-awaited days that teachers are really looking forward to. They may not be that obvious with their excitement, but they are once that day approaches. And to celebrate this momentous event, usually, the school celebrates it in a serious manner. Perhaps there are some things that would make the celebration more different; do you agree?

Funny moments would actually make the celebration more enthusiastic. Yes, there may be teary-eyed moments where people might be too sentimental during this event, but appreciation would be more appreciated it if we add funny things in the event. If you want samples, here are funny poems as examples for teacher appreciation gifts.

Here are some that would make you feel tickled.

English Lecture Coma
- James Grengs

I think I know
What it feels like to slip into a coma.
I am sitting,
My teacher is rambling,
And my senses are going.
Slowly,
I slip
Into
Darkness…

Bored To Death
- Leila Light

I am in class taking anatomy & physiology lecture
Oh! I am so tired I can not even stare at the teacher
He is so talkative & talks too much, as he has a PHD in literature
I can not even take a note, I do not care
I can not wait to see him walk out through the door.
Monday is always boring
But, not as boring as that old slim teacher, who moves like a string
I can’t take it anymore shall ask permission

Where do all the teachers go?
- Peter Dixon

Where do all the teachers go
When its four o’clock?
Do they live in houses
And do they wash their socks?

Do they wear pajamas?
And do they watch TV?
And do they pick their noses
The same as you and me?

Do they live with other people
Have they mums and dads?
And were they ever children
And were they ever bad?

Did they ever, never spell right
Did they ever make mistakes?
Were they punished in the corner
If they pinched the chocolate flakes?

Did they ever lose their hymn books
Did they ever leave their greens?
Did they ever scribble on the desktop
Did they wear old dirty jeans?

I’ll follow one back home today
I’ll find out what they do
Then I’ll put it in a poem
That they can read to you.

Teachers Appreciation Day for the next month is fast approaching. There couple of countries around the globe anticipates for this special day to be proud and give honor for their beloved and most favorite teachers. But why there are still dire circumstances wherein teachers are not liked by their students? Is this because of the way they teach and express their procedure of teaching?

There are students who have been likely forced to listen to a tedious coaching of a teacher in a class. If you have one teacher that is special to you because he or she is kind, but not because he teach you well, you can create an idea in order to help him improve his way of teaching and make your classmates be alive once he teaches the class by handing him a book with a content “how to improve teachers teaching procedure and skills.”

Of course, it might be dishonorable if as a student like you will just give the tips as easy as it seems. So the best thing for you to do is to make it one of your teacher appreciation gifts. Or else, compile the following helpful procedures below to make a handbook. Simply bind it in a cardboard, put some attractive decoration to make the handbook appealing to read with your heartily intention to help your teacher in a very kind way.

These are the 5 helpful principles to improve teachers teaching skills:

1. The teacher has to understand the fundamental concepts, structures of discipline he instructed, tools of analysis, and able to create teaching experiences knowledgeable fort he students that make the subject matter meaningful in every feature.
2. The teacher mainly needs to understand the level of his students learning and development. At the same time, teacher must be capable to provide students learning opportunities that basically support their intellectual, personal, and social development.
3. The teacher essentially need to understand each student differences regarding their way of approaches to learning, moreover, to create teaching opportunities that are tailored to diverse learners.
4. The teacher also need to understand and use different range of instructional tactics in order to encourage the students’ progress of critical thinking, performance on academic skills, and problem-solving.
5. The teacher need to use a comprehension to deal of individual and group drive plus behavior to build a learning environment that give confidence to positive social interaction, self-motivation, as well as active engagement in learning for all students.

The 5 principles are helpful modification and learning as well for a teacher to improve his teaching skills to be a good teacher, in which is a very nice teacher appreciation gifts to consider.

Education is known to be the integral part of individual’s life. This is also an added venture that all parents should expend for sufficient time for every child education. The teacher appreciation week ideas should be well-plan because the teachers are the one who are the only proficient professionals that can facilitate merely to educate students accurately and with authorization.

By means of schooling, parents contribute to their child’s future which is the most precious business for parents to give in most efficient way; especially when their child needs special attention. Those who are entitled to have special education are intended for students with:

• Children that differ from the others in age, ability, learning approach, and personality.
• Children with impairments such as vision impairments and hearing loss.
• Students with disabilities physically and psychologically retardation, which can range from mild to profound.
• Those who have unique learning needs and require a number of special education such as specifically designed teaching, speech or language therapy, modifications to the wide-ranging education curriculum, adapted materials, or adaptive physical education.
• Students who have physical disabilities and depend to the use of wheelchairs.
• Chronic health problems and numerous disabilities that can make their movements difficult to learning matters.

In a way, the special education deals with every student individual needs and differences; and this process idyllically involves the systematically supervise arrangement of the procedures of instructing, their accessible classroom environment, the adapted materials and equipment, and so as other interventions.
Same to those in typical education, teachers are also part in the teacher appreciation week 2011, in which teachers surely felt the genuine feelings being appreciated by their in-needs students. In a special education, the teachers help the learners in their education with their special needs to reach a higher level of personal self-support.
In this case, these students success when the environment of the school itself and the community is available where they can access to a customary classroom education, because students with impairments and disabilities are to be expected to assist and promote from supplementary educational services.
Children with special needs are also as the intellectual giftedness. Majority of the developed countries, the teachers have special modifying teaching procedures and background meant to accommodate the maximum number of students to be served in common education environments. This unique type of education in developed countries such as America is often to be watched as a range of services that is open in every school; the integration may able to decrease mainly the social stigmas and progress the academic feat for many students.

Because we value our teachers, that is why teachers appreciation day exist. This profession throughout the world is acknowledged as the premier noble line of career ever. Without them no other career could be real for the total knowledge of all commence from them.

In the United States, they raised the qualifications of their candidates, train, and offer to pay them more as published by the report in US educational system. It was declared by Andreas Schleicher- the leader of the (Directorate for Education) Indicators and Analysis Division at the (OECD) Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and is as well as a professor at University of Heidelberg in Germany -

“Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful, dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and, in many cases, insufficient support from their leadership.”

With all the teachers’ effort, they deserve to appreciate during teachers day. This issue was tackled in a conference recently organized by the federal Department of Education. There are ministers and leaders of teachers’ unions gathered together from sixteen countries together with the state superintendents from 9 different states in America.

Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education in the US, hoped that those educational leaders presented there would share their useful strategies in that conference for raising the achievement of students.

Top-scoring 3 countries in International Achievement Test are:

1. Korea
2. Singapore
3. Finland

These mentioned countries recruit only high performance of college graduates for job positions in teaching, as well as supporting them with mentoring, whereas other assist in the classroom, and of course, take steps to elevate the respect for this profession. Chiefly in South Korea, they acknowledged their teachers as the ‘nation builders,’ and every teachers day they widely heed its importance.

Due to United States eagerness to support every American student’s achievement, that is why the conference was held, wherein the meeting occurs in a period when teachers’ privileges, roles and their responsibilities are being generally debated in the nation.

Certainly, no matter how the teachers give their effort but they lack support from the government, things won’t be achieving. Thus, “You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don’t spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won’t get higher student outcomes,” according to Mr. Schleicher.

When I was browsing in the Internet, I was honestly looking for teacher appreciation ideas that would give me new insights in how to appreciate teachers. To my surprise, I actually didn’t find the ideas in it, but what I read first is the reason why we should appreciate teachers.

Wouldn’t it be suitable to know the reasons why we appreciate teachers give us the motivation to pursue giving appreciation ideas for our teachers? Well, I click the link and here are the reasons written by Susan Dunn. In fact, she specifically mentioned the name of the teacher in itself, why she appreciates these teachers. Allow me to write these personal reasons for us to know also why we should appreciate our very own teachers.

1. He taught me to question! To use my brain and not allow myself to be spoon-fed. He told us verbs were conjugated one way on Monday, and then introduced the other way on Tuesday, saying, “And now you’re saying, ‘My teacher has lied to me.’ Well, they do!” It kept me on my toes, so to speak, and brought me into the real world where the rules don’t always apply and tricky things can happen. (Appreciating her first- year Latin teacher)
2. He taught me how much I respect someone who stands for something and enforces it. The students had been picking on a girl I’ll call Clara. [He] sent her from class one day on an errand, and gave us a lecture about how people were going to be treated in her classroom. I can still see her pacing the floor, making her point. Things changed for Clara after that … and for me. (Appreciating her third-year Latin teacher)
3. She cared enough to notice I was goofing off and called me on it, teaching me to respect myself. She refused to accept the half-a**** paper I had turned in, saying it was nowhere near what I was capable of producing, and told me to do it over. (Appreciating her high school English teacher)
4. [She] gave me a role model for how a woman can live a balanced life. At the time, few women were working outside the home. She had a Ph.D. and taught full-time at the college, and also had 2 children. She invited us to her home often enough for me to see she was excellent at both. (Appreciating her college professor)
5. He taught me how to reason. And also that when you have self-confidence you can be warm and funny. Brilliant, he was also very funny. He taught the senior Logic Seminar. No quarters! (Appreciating her college English professor)

How about you? Do you personally appreciate your teachers too? Make room to know why you appreciate your teachers this teacher appreciation week 2011 so that thinking of how you are going to appreciate them would become much easier.

Science teachers always get humorous experiences they hear from their young students. Usually, the students are being asked with “why is it that so-and-so is so-and so?” well, since kids are naturally smart (and witty as well), they could either provide correct answers or give the alternative ones.

Just like the examples below as to what young students understand some basic concepts related to science. You will laugh at these teacher jokes. It does not only show such enthusiastic teacher appreciation but it will really make us laugh out loud. Take a look at these.

Question: What is one horsepower?
Answer: One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.

You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don’t hear it you got hit, so never mind.

Talc is found on rocks and on babies.

The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down.

When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.

When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting.

Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.

While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it is really only centrificating. [this guy is going to do well in college! *haha* ...Lj]

Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction.

South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage.

Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime.

Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There are 180 degrees between freezing and boiling because there are 180 degrees between north and south.

A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go.

There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. Finding them all means living forever.

There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the Earth because of so much population stomping around up there these days.

Lime is a green-tasting rock.

Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil.

Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don’t why you should.

Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they’re there.

Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it’s brother against brother.

Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers.

We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation.
Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.

To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up.

In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H’s as O’s.

Clouds are high flying fogs.

I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing.

Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around and around.
There is not much else to do.

Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does.

Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water.

We keep track of the humidity in the air so we won’t drown when we breathe.

Rain is often known as soft water, oppositely known as hail.

Rain is saved up in cloud banks.

In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.

Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dogs tongue will kill the strongest man.

A blizzard is when it snows sideways.

A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size.

A monsoon is a French gentleman.

Thunder is a rich source of loudness.

Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.

It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places.

The wind is like the air, only pushier.

Teachers in Asia and from across the globe, teach young people to free from ignorance by outfitting them knowledge in methods of reading and writing. In today’s generation, they teachers use games, computers, videos, and other useful tools to educate the student in different subjects. So, teacher appreciation gift ideas must be presented when teachers day is to celebrate.

Gifts such as crafts are nice for souvenirs especially if this is your last period in academic of that school. But to give the most polite keepsake, the teacher appreciation poem is what you need. Take a look at the following poem elite for the teachers only.

‘Why God Made Teachers’

When God created teachers,
He gave us special friends
To help us understand His world
And truly comprehend
The beauty and the wonder
Of everything we see,
And become a better person
With each discovery.

When God created teachers,
He gave us special guides
To show us ways in which to grow
So we can all decide
How to live and how to do
What’s right instead of wrong,
To lead us so that we can lead
And learn how to be strong.

Why God created teachers,
In His wisdom and His grace,
Was to help us learn to make our world
A better, wiser place.

(This teacher poem was created by Kevin William Huff of dltk kids)

Observe how demanding is teachers profession can be:

• Teachers have done so many things to meet the needs of their profession. They planned their lessons as their guide to teach, they explain the information in relation to the topic, and make all lectures easy to understand so that students with different learning level can learn in the easiest way for them.
• Teachers assign class homework and projects, which they find helpful to expand the skill of the student to learn. They even help the students when they are not doing well.
• Kindergarten and elementary teachers teach various subjects, whilst high school teachers concentrates on one subject only. They spend more time to explain clearly their subject.

With all the pressure and the hard work that teachers necessarily accomplish week day, do you think they deserve teacher appreciation poem on teachers appreciation day?