Teacher Appreciation Blog

It’s school time again after a long period of summer break! Teachers are for sure busy preparing their lesson plans and set up the things in the classroom for students to use. We know that teachers dedicate their time and effort in educating and guiding students to the right path, instilling them good values, and putting forward comprehensive knowledge all for students’ future.

Education is the leading key to achieve a good life that’s full of hope, and only teachers can make a way through it. Hence, if you fail to express your gratefulness and appreciation to your previous teachers, don’t let it happen this time, new teacher means a new encouragement.

On Teachers Day, write something wonderful to your teacher. It will absolutely make her appreciate your present too. The appreciation poems for about teachers could evoke a torrent of amazing positive reception that can help them build up their teaching.

A teacher poem from a student named Roxandra, has shown her teacher appreciation because of the best education her teacher’s endowed her and to all her classmates. This is how she expressed her thankfulness:

“No words can sum it up,
No gifts will ever be enough
To show our appreciation to you,
The people whose lives many of us made so tough.
Some may say it is your job to go the extra mile,
But you even go as far as making each student smile.

You help us to be a success in the future,
Through your scoldings, hard work and nurture.
May you be blessed for your patience, time and encouragement?
Oh we thank God for every one of you precious gifts he has sent.

Many of you left your homes and family
To be a part of our school’s assembly.
No matter where we reach in life,
We will always remember the beauty of your sacrifice.”

Actually, if you compose like what Roxandra articulates in the content of her appreciation poem, for sure, it will make your teacher smile on a beaming face!

She teaches me to read
She teaches me to write
She puts into my head
Those little sparks of light

She plants a little seed
And makes me want to grow

…And I forgot the next lines!

This poem was the poem I once recited in a teacher appreciation day when I was in Kindergarten. And to recall how long it was, I think that was like 18 years ago. It was on a stage, of course, to celebrate the teacher’s day annually, and I was assigned to recite a poem for them.

Could you imagine a five-year old kid reciting a poem in front of not-so-few people? Well, I could remember being confident at that time. If I wasn’t, I wouldn’t be reciting a poem to the crowd on the first place, right?

I honestly have forgotten some of the lines of the poem itself. But what I surely remember was the happy face of my favorite kindergarten teacher who was really smiling at me when I was reciting. Seeing her smile like that was a returned compliment to my part. The stage fright and effort to memorize such poem was not invested in vain. I saw, as far as I can remember, how my teacher was really appreciated during that time.

My favorite teacher’s response will certainly be the responses of your favorite teachers too once you use teacher appreciation poems to express how wonderful they really are to our lives. They deserve to be well-appreciated. I could recall being so childish with my diction and pronunciation when I recited the poem. I even sounded funny to emphasize each of the words. But regardless of how I pronounced it, as long as I touched the heart of my teacher during that time, I know I have indeed returned the compliment. She was certainly happy she was my teacher that time and was very proud that she saw me in a stage with confidence.

I bet all teachers would be proud of the accomplishments of her students; wouldn’t you agree?

Appreciating teachers is definitely the most precious way we can repay all the hard work that our teachers had given to us. They have labored so hard, not to mention the very limited salary income they receive monthly, still, they continue to pursue on their profession. I guess this is what a real teacher is: dedicated to his work without really focusing on what financial returns she receives. She is gladly satisfied to see her students become great people that helps bring change to the world.

That is why, on the first place, the Teacher Appreciation Week is celebrated annually. We recognize their ability; we respect their duty; and we definitely look forward to their ultimate success as well. They deserve to be appreciated, and if it’s necessary to shout it as loud as the usage of media is possible, then somebody will implement it.

In fact, there really are some groups of young people who appreciated their teachers by using the media. It wasn’t actually very special. What makes it special at some point is that the names of the teachers were specifically mentioned by these youngsters as they really showed how their teachers served as their inspiration.

According to CNN, its School of Thought and CNN Student News asked some of their audiences to send some iReports during their celebration with the National Teacher Appreciation Week. Lots of students were really expressing their gratitude towards their teachers and they never failed to mention them.

Teachers all over the world—teachers like Mr. Balch, Mrs. Bachman, Miss Manal, Miss Regne, Mrs. Thomson, Mrs. Gast, Mrs. Clapham, Mrs. Murray, Ms. Marker, and all others—from different locations like Texas, North Dakota, and even the Philippines were special mentioned by their loving students. They were well-appreciated.

As for us, we don’t really necessarily need to use the influence of media to show appreciation to our teachers. Good if we take advantage of them, but there are also various ways we can express how thankful we are that they exist. What else could you possibly think of more?

If you are a fan of your own favorite teacher and the rest of all the teachers across the world, then you will definitely be celebrating Teachers Appreciation Week with vibrant and enthusiasm. Of course, when we celebrate their week, we wanted to make it special: rendering appreciation poems, singing them their most favorite teacher song, giving them special gifts, treating them to their favorite restaurant, taking them out, and even more. We can explore lots and lots of simple to extravagant ways to letting our teachers feel that they have a special place in our hearts.

But thinking how we become so active during their appreciation week, undeniably, we’re also overlooking how we—along with other people involved—treat our teachers before and after the Teacher Appreciation Week.

Ask your teachers; they may not detail you the figures they receive monthly, but sadly, it’s smaller than what they should be worth receiving. Some concerned officials have been protesting some salary increase to the teachers when teacher appreciation week 2012 was implemented since their job is indeed a tough responsibility of training, equipping, mentoring, and teaching, but it’s been overlooked by others.

In my country, a board-passer, award-achiever newly graduated teacher can start in as low as a minimum wage of a typical office clerk. And mostly, they get to the job of being an assistant teacher first before proceeding to becoming an adviser. This is then most of the dirty work takes their job and the beginner teacher starts from making endless props, challenging lesson plans with sleepless nights. In some cases, they are sent to the most rural areas of my country and teach to less-privileged people—with the lowest income you can think of, no transportation allowance, so far away from her relatives, and mostly even forgotten that they are there.

Good thing most teachers have indeed the heart of teaching. Regardless of how small their wages really are, they still choose to teach; it’s because teaching is not an elective responsibility; it’s a zealous mandate.

Love is usually expressed on special occasions such as Valentine’s Day, Mother or Father’s Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year. Even though we know for a fact that we express love to our loved ones depending on a certain occasion, still, we could express love to our beloved people even without any occasion at all.

But we’re talking about a special day here. And for the teachers whom you really love the most, we’re going to recognize their teacher appreciation day as their most exciting day of their lives.

Our teachers can be parents as well. If they are women, their children celebrate them Mother’s Day every year. If they are men, it’s Father’s Day also. But aside from being parents to their own children, it would certainly be a great opportunity to them to recognize their being teachers as well and allow them to feel the love they have rendered throughout their lives.

Materializing the love, as what the title expresses means you will not just express love by expressing it with your typical way. If you have been frequently saying I love you to your teachers, this teacher appreciation day 2012, express it with a little more effort.

Giving gifts is one of the most typical things you can do for their most special day. From greeting cards to favorite stuffs your teacher may need or want, you can buy or made the gift you think is best for them. It doesn’t need to be that expensive. All you got to have is a sincere motive and unconditional expression of giving gifts to your teachers.

Besides, this is only a once in a year event, right? We don’t want to be stingy for this special day for a special person like our teacher.

If you want various lists of gift ideas for your teachers, you can take time to read our previous articles. Mind you, it really helps.

You and I have special people in our lives. During Christmas and thanksgiving, the most special people we can name on the top list is our family. During Valentine’s Day, it’s our lovers and spouses. During Graduation Day, it’s of course our graduates.

But during teacher appreciation week, knowing that it is not really a highly recognized event by all people since it’s not a holiday, still, we recognize that the people who is mostly important during this day is our teachers—not the parents, not us students, but our beloved teachers!

And there are so many ideas we can name of just to show how appreciative we really are that we have our teachers. Thinking that they have given up their lives for this life-absorbing profession makes them the people that need to be appreciated wonderfully. It’s really not a very easy task to become a sincere and dedicated teacher. People even describe this as a career that lets you stay in the school for the rest of their lives and earns too little compared to others.

But the best part of this teaching career is that they touch their student’s life, making them the greatest inspiration and motivation to pursue learning. I don’t need to make some argument with this, but business tycoons, influential politicians, and rich career pursuers would not be very successful if not for their teachers!

That’s why we show appreciation to them during their most special week. One of the simplest ways to do so is to offer them something to show that we appreciate them—like poems, for example. Here is one of the various teacher poems I found online. This may perhaps be a good poem you might want to include in your most inspired gift to be given to them.

A Special Teacher Thank You!
Thank you teacher for opening the door
To a wonderful world that I can explore
For opening my eyes to see new things
To find the road of new beginnings
Ever changing, ever moving
Forwards, upwards to a greater world.

Thank you teacher for believing in me
Week by week proving all I could be
Thanks for inspiring and making it fun
Your own enthusiasm has been worth a ton!
Ever changing, ever moving
Forwards, upwards to a greater world.

So don’t fail to show how appreciative you really are that you have your teachers. This is indeed the best way to express that you love that your teachers have become such.

GMRC; have you heard of this acronym before? You can Google this if you want and perhaps the acronyms it will provide you must have been Gas Machinery Research Council, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company, or even Green Mountain Running Camp.

But all these acronyms are not related to the thing that teachers are looking forward to: the National Teacher Appreciation Week.

What I am pertaining to when I say GMRC that relates to our teachers means Good Manners and Right Conduct. Yes, the best teacher appreciation gift ideas that I think would greatly appreciate our teachers most is the GMRC!

Anyone can make a teacher poem and be given to the teacher; just simply copy it in the internet, paste in the default design, and there, a gift is made—without any sincerity or genuine feelings at all. Some also may give cookies, baked goods, and other makeable stuff, but they can just give it for the sake of giving. People can fake words of appreciation with flattery and giving gifts can be easily overlooked, but nothing beats the good manners and right conduct you can render for your teachers!

I am not against gifts or poems to be used as ideas for the teacher’s day bear that in mind. In fact, this sight is even encouraging you to make these as basic ideas to show teacher appreciation effectively. But my point here is that, if you really are willing to express teacher appreciation, don’t just flaunt to fake it, you know. If you are not sincere at all, then it’s better to just keep the complacency. Don’t pretend that you have appreciated your teachers at all with unreal expressions.

Do you know that being your good self and showing respect, loyalty, honesty, and excellence in studies are the best gifts you can give to your teachers? You will not just reduce your teacher’s stress for this matter, but you will also let them become proud of you.

Your teachers may have keep your well-written poems and well decorated gifts during teacher’s day, but your good manners and right conduct will be kept in their hearts throughout their lifetime. No physical efforts, no money spent—just plain good deeds! GMRC indeed!

There was a time when my sister whose profession is a teacher was asked by her pupil one time. It was relevant to their lessons about various kinds of transportation, including airplanes. After the lesson, this particular pupil came to her and asked, “Teacher, do you think ants would also be able to ride on the plane, just like the people.” My sister thought for a while. “Well, maybe. They could probably stay in the cargo,” she just answered indiscreetly.

Her student surprised her with a follow up question. The pupil said, “But what if that cargo fell from the plane and the ants also fall from it. Do you think the ant would die?”

What do you think?

Surely, there are lots of pretty challenging but funny questions and responses that young pupils burst out from their minds. Ask them a certain question and they will respond you in such way that it will blow your mind!

This teacher appreciation day, you can discuss some personal teacher jokes that you experienced with you and your fellow students. If you haven’t had something to share, probably the following jokes below would make an addition.

Student 1: (to female teacher) Can you hold on to my wallet for me while we take the exam? There may or may not be money in it.
Teacher: I can’t be bought!
Student 2: Yes, but can you be rented for a little while?

Kid: My teacher has gone crazy Mom.
Mother: Why do you think so?
Kid: Yesterday he said that 3 times 4 is 12. Today he is saying that 12 is 6 times 2.

Teacher: Tell me an example of a creature which can live on water as well as the land.
Student: Frog.
Teacher: Another example.
Student: Another frog.

Opening the book in the class, the teacher asked, ‘So, where were we?’
Student: In this class, Sir.

Just like any typical writing day for this wonderful teacher site, I was looking for some teacher poems I might want to include in the article. However, I found an even more amazing literature that highlights our appreciation to our teachers.

There’s this collected works that I found in a particular site that I really find so funny and somewhat real to teachers. The literature was entitled “How to Tell if you are a Real Teacher”, author unknown.

Teacher or not, you will find the following facts (I think) enlisted below very funny and true. These definitely add up our lists of teacher appreciation week ideas.

Not everyone might have noticed this, but do you know that one of the fivefold ministries mentioned in the bible is teachers? There were pastors, prophets, evangelists, and apostles, but the only ministry mentioned in the bible that also applies in the secular world is teachers. Teachers are indeed, versatile in all beliefs, whether in Christianity, Buddhism, or any other credence.

No wonder there are poems written in a more inspirational way. I mean, besides, teachers do really come from God on the first place right? So if you want to express to your teachers on Teachers Day that they are blessings to you and to their future students, express them in gratitude through teacher appreciation poems.

Here are two of the most common God-inspired poems you might want to know about.

Why God Made Teachers
by: Kevin William Huff

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.

God Made Teachers . . .
Author Unknown

God understood our thirst for
knowledge, and our need to be led
by someone wiser;
He needed a heart of compassion,
of encouragement, and patience;
Someone who would accept
the challenge regardless of the
opposition;
Someone who could see potential
and believe in the best in others . . .
So He made Teachers