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 heard verbally that a teacher got really so tired with his or her profession? Did you hear someone frankly saying that he or she is quitting becoming a teacher because their students are extremely mischievous?

So far, in my years of existence where I am surrounded with teachers at home, in my community, and in my circle of community, I never get to hear teachers who professionally teach got to a point where they quit and stop teaching. I agree what my sibling told me. Yes, “teaching is not just a profession. It is a lifestyle. You don’t just teach just because you learned in for four years in college. You teach because it’s what you are actually passionate about.”

In your opinion, why do teachers keep on coming to work? When it comes to finances, their salary is not really that enormous compared to other earning professionals related to business or financing.

A certain blogger has actually pondered this question as well. What sustains our teachers during these times? Well, she actually had an informal survey in Facebook and asked the teachers that she knew concerning the issue. Most responses were wrapped up into three reasons:

1. They love working with kids,
2. They respect and appreciate their colleagues, and
3. They embrace the intellectual rigor and creativity that their work demands.

Quoting what the blogger posted, a respondent named Diana said that laughter keeps her going. “Surely somewhere it has been written, ‘Teachers, love the children more than you love the personal money you spend on hand sanitizer, tissues, paperbacks, writers’ notebooks, and writing utensils for them; teachers, love the children more than you love a clean house, a free weeknight, a calm Sunday afternoon, and a leisurely lunch; teachers, love the children more than you hate wasteful meetings, mindless paperwork, and pointless bureaucracy; teachers love the children more than you dread the faltering economy, the angry taxpayer, and personal bankruptcy. Perhaps I exaggerate.” She has been a teacher in the Middle School for a few years already.

Isn’t this very inspiring? That’s why, it is way too impossible not to show appreciation to the teachers on teacher appreciation day 2011. There are so many ways we can show our gratitude towards them. We can write teacher appreciation poems, make or buy teacher appreciation gifts, or even just a simple greeting through cards and social media sites make it possible. With all their effort not to give up and choose to sustain in their career, I think they deserve all praise.

Teacher Appreciation Day is one of the best days among teachers, as far as celebrations are concerned. During Christmas or Valentines Day, usually the teachers are the ones who give gifts to their loved ones. But during their day, particularly this teacher appreciation week 2011, it always becomes a day where they are not the ones who will be giving so much anymore. This will be the day where they will in fact receive more.

That’s why we give gifts of love during their most special day. To become more romantic, poems are suitable gift ideas given by older students and adults. The following poems below are very simple yet heart-warming. Giving these poems makes the perfect impression for an expressed appreciation.

Sonnet for An Unforgettable Teacher

(Teacher’s name),
When I began your class I think I knew
The kind of challenges you’d make me face.
You gave me motivation to pursue
The best, and to reject the commonplace.
Your thinking really opened up my mind.
With wisdom, style and grace, you made me see,
That what I’d choose to seek, I’d surely find;
You shook me out of my complacency.
I thank you now for everything you’ve done;
What you have taught me I will not outgrow.
Your kind attention touched my mind and heart;
In many ways that you will never know.
I will remember you my whole life through;
I wish that all my teachers were like you.
By Joanna Fuchs

Inspirational poems for teachers are in demand. This free verse thank you teacher poem is perfect for National Teacher Appreciation Day. Use it in a card or with a gift.

The Best Teachers

Teachers open up young minds,
showing them the wonders of the intellect
and the miracle
of being able to think for themselves.
A teacher exercises
the mental muscles of students,
stretching and strengthening,
so they can make challenging decisions,
find their way in the world,
and become independent.
The best teachers care enough
To gently push and prod students
to do their best
and fulfill their potential.
You are one of those.
Thank you.
By Joanna Fuchs

Did you celebrate Teacher Appreciation Day 2011 already in your country? Recently, the Philippines celebrated its Teacher’s Day and it was generally a success. Most students gave personalized gifts they made and bought to be given to their favorite teachers. Some parents also get to participate in the celebration by personally giving those gifts or giving them treats. It was a remarkable day for teachers to be recognized in such manner.

Now the part of the school is actually to implement programs to show teacher appreciation. And as part of the program, funny experiences among teachers may be considered.

The following stories below are few of the experiences a typical teacher encounters. Take time to read it; you probably have your funny experiences too that you can share within the program if you are a teacher.

I was substituting in my own son’s kindergarten classroom, and it happened to be his birthday. He told one of the children, and she asked me, “Is it really his birthday?” I replied, “Yes, he was born six years ago today.” The little girl looked at me in amazement. “You mean he was BORN on his BIRTHDAY? What a lucky boy!”

(I was substituting a 2nd grade class and the kids were working on their math workbooks. A little girl came up to me and said she didn’t understand a page that said to write an addition and subtraction story problem. I asked her “What is a story problem?” She hesitated a second and then said “It’s when something bad happens in a story.” I smiled and told her it was the best answer I had heard in months.

In my first year in the business of substituting I found myself in an 8th grade US History class. The students sensed my “newness” and let me have it, or so they thought. One boy walked to the window, opened it and threw his book out. The class roared, waiting for a response. I walked toward the window and the boy; he jumped out the window. A quick response of shutting the window and asking the class to carry on with the assignment worked in heading off problems. I then sent a note to the office and they handled the situation. I walked out of school that day and wondered if I’d be back. “I really like elementary school!” The secret is to keep your sense of humor.

One of my first experiences in subbing was quite humorous (for me anyway). This was a 10th grade math class. I usually just stand in the back and talk with students. While waiting for the bell to ring, a young man approached me. He was a student in the class. He was very nice and very charming. Just as the bell was ringing, he asked me out on a date, not knowing I was the Sub. I just smiled and headed for the front of the classroom. I looked directly at him while I said, “Hi my name is Mrs. Wilson, and I’m your substitute teacher.” His face turned bright red and never looked at me again. Needless to say, he was very quiet and well behaved after that!

“Teachers for Gender Equality.” – the October 5, 2011 WTD or World Teachers’ Day Theme.

Today, a salute to all teachers that celebrates Teacher Appreciation Day! Primarily in the Philippines, teachers and students are busy commemorating this special day. WTD or World Teachers’ Day is observed every 5th day of October yearly, in which the date celebrates the 1996 signing of the United Nations Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization or International Labor Organization Recommendation relating to the teachers status of Teachers.

There are lots of events occur not only in the Philippines but so as to other places around the world. For certain, programs to honor and awarding of teachers in general are not missing out, for they have made special contribution in education to a particular institution or community.

Since September 4 this year, there was a month-long campaign culmination in teachers appreciation day with “My Teacher, My Hero” theme; and the theme highlighted the extraordinary role of a teacher, the service, and the loyalty each has played in guiding families, in growth of communities, and the building of nation.

Recently, the ACT or Alliance of Concerned Teachers in the country led teachers a nationwide campaign aim to encourage the country’s verdict and the policy makers to develop the public school teachers’ economic condition. Last Oct. 1, 2011, Synergeia Foundation was organizing a community walk as well as arts and crafts program to honor the teachers. Teachers were presented by schools nationwide with teacher appreciation gifts, thank-you cards, and orchid corsages. –source: Manila Bulletin Philippines.

Recollecting the days of enlightenment and happiness on Teachers day, one can realize the years along the line how important those times were. The small moment inside the classroom gathering respect from one another- from teacher to students, and vice versa is a true compassion.

So if you value those days, it is time to express your thank you to your teacher fro their noble profession. Being students next to parents, teachers are important as how important parents are to you. The teachers have been the guidance and the helper for you and your classmates to enable you all to make something worthy and successful in your lives.

Apart from material things and/ or teacher appreciation gifts, there is anything that you could more specially offer to your teachers which is a genuine fulfillment – to see you or the former students of them as successful young professionals, exemplifying the values and the principles they have taught and instilled in the students, whereas selflessly give time to serve their community, their country, and fellow people.

Among the greatest of all services that can be rendered by men to Almighty God, is the education and training of children, so that they can foster by grace in the way of salvation, growing like pearls of divine bounty in the shell of education and will be one day the jewel in the crown of abiding glory.

As far as Teacher Day is concerned, it was often said that teaching was the worse profession a person could take. Some people just prefer business or communicative professions, but definitely not teaching. Teachers are the most “abused” kind of profession since not everybody has the passion to take it. Just as Henry Von Dyke quoted, do not enter the teaching profession unless you love it. It is, in fact, the worst paid and the best rewarded of vocations.

Being a teacher is honestly not an easy task. You have to have excellence coupled with equity and social justice. In this world filled with unfairness and prejudice? Standing for the sake of the good is not an easy commission.

According to the writers of the “Role of Teacher in a School”, teachers You need to achieve the objective of excellence coupled with equity and social justice by way of imparting quality education to all students without any discrimination between cast, creed, sex, religion and race so that they become physically fit, mentally alert, emotionally balanced and spiritually sound. Teachers are required to understand the need of every child for material education, education for becoming good human being and for divine education so that they can face the realities of life in the new millennium.

Teachers should even be promoting patriotism and education for national integration as well. Quite a task, isn’t it? Their foremost duty, added by the source, is to provide education in such a way so that the students can live and learn together and develop their full potentials.

Moreover, they also need to have international understanding, good quality modern education, and reasonable level of competence in three languages. It is definitely not a very easy work for teachers. But you know, there are those who really disregard the difficulties of a teacher’s responsibility and extend their passion for teaching and for the children’s sake! Now that is a responsibility worth for such appreciation!

Here we are again with our teacher jokes! Are you ready to get funny once again? Collect these funny and hilarious jokes and make this as icebreakers to your teachers during the Teacher Appreciation Day. You will surely love it a lot!

Here are the jokes then! Fasten your seatbelts!

Billy and Willy were at Sunday school studying about Noah’s ark. On the way home, Willy asked, “Do you think Noah did much fishing?”

“How could he?” said Billy. “He only had two worms”.

A teacher was having trouble teaching arithmetic to one little boy. So she said, “if you reached in your right pocket and found a nickel, and you reached in your left pocket and found another one, what would you have?”

“Somebody else’s pants.”

Teacher: “Sam, what is the outside of a tree called?”
Sam: “I don’t know.”
Teacher: “Bark, Sam, bark.”
Sam: “Bow, wow, wow!”

Teacher: Milton, how can you prove the earth is round?
Milton: I can’t. Besides, I never said it was.

Little Johnny returns from school and says he got an F in arithmetic.
“Why?” asks the father.
“The teacher asked ‘How much is 2×3?’ and I said ’6′”
“But that’s right!”
“Then she asked me ‘How much is 3×2?’”
“What’s the freaking difference?”
“That’s exactly what I said!”

The parents were very disappointed in the grades that their son brought home. “The only consolation I can find in these awful grades,” lamented the father, “is that I know he never cheated during his exams.”

“Dad, can you write in the dark?”
“I think so. What is it you want me to write?”
“Your name on this report card.”

The child comes home from his first day at school.
Mother asks, “What did you learn today?”
The kid replies, “Not enough. I have to go back tomorrow.”

Teacher: Johnny, you know you can’t sleep in my class.
Johnny: I know. But maybe if you were just a little quieter, I could.

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

The world has never seen such turmoil in viewing the state of every country’s economy. The rates of jobless people and wars have combined that gets in the way to take out the chance to steps forward; for most think that country’s have taken immense steps backward. Education is the answer of the obstructions happen in one place. Adequate knowledge leads numerous personal conducts to an individual, in which this makes teachers famous teachers in the whole world.

Thus, maintaining the proper teaching by teachers is the principal role to craft comprehensive knowledge etched the minds of the young people. Learning literally what exist in real life help individual withstands the inconsideration of the challenging world with alleviation and efficiency.

Through celebrating Teacher Appreciation Day event, students can take advantage to say ‘thank you’ and show to their teachers that they care for them. Most of the time, students prepare teacher appreciation gifts apart from the events for the awarding teachers and administrators. This day can give inspiration, encouragement, and can give teachers pats on the backs necessary to keep them work toward perfecting their profession crafting and shaping their students to become a good and successful person in the future.

The teacher appreciation gifts are part of the event. There are lots of nice gifts to give to your teacher in shops in the town or online. It does not matter what you can give toy our teacher, they will always appreciate your effort. Do not be bother to give expensive present for a true gift comes from a true heart. No matter what year or occasion may be, the thought is important instead of just a coffee mug, or a basket of cookies. The better way to show your gratitude is what to tell them how special they are to you – they have not received this type of gift a hundred times.

Last week, the Low Country Healthy Living is merging with the event and hosting Teacher Appreciation Day for the county schools of all Horry and Georgetown’s teachers and employees started 9:30 in the morning to 12:40 noon next to Litchfield Applewoods at the Grace Church Waccamaw.

The group of people in the county has been collecting various school supplies for every teacher as well as for the school employees. During the event, there are local gift certificates handed out that cost more than $2000; there had been free lunch, demonstrations by the Stanton Wellness Center, Health Point, Nutrition Detectives, and Anti-bullying techniques, and there are massages too. All were enjoying and very happy commemorating their Teacher Day for teacher’s appreciation.

Everyone likes to be appreciated in doing their jobs. This is the same as a special achievement for them more than anything else. For the record, teaching is the sole profession that builds everyone to become a knowledgeable person- familiarity with all the things that exist in the world; thus, Teacher Appreciation Day is how to value them.

Getting a massive academic enrichment is applied by professionals today bestowed by teachers to them through education. There are no striking structures of buildings unless an engineer gone through schooling, and there are no doctors to cure critical cases of diseases if they were not educated for this career, and all of them are the sum from teachers’ production.

The teacher appreciation week 2011 was celebrated by several countries already in the prior months. For those in the country where teacher appreciation week has not yet honored, the real appreciation to give and show to your favorite teachers in the form of genuine thanks and parental support is to prepare something that fortunately your teachers save them for inspiration.

How to tell the teachers that they really matter to you? There’s no need to fret! Here are some valuable teacher appreciation gift ideas for you to serve as examples:

Collection of stationeries

This is a nice gift for teachers. Collect different styles of stationeries and with different colors and shapes; scented ones are much appealing. A quite few of these will make your teachers surely be glad, since they tend to write various notes for some occasions. Just ensure that you present your stationeries beautifully and pleasingly.

Teaching is also a reflective, difficult profession, and a blank journal would show respect for a teacher’s feelings and needs. Choose a journal that inspires and/or reflects the teacher’s interests.

A subject-interrelated joke book

To give teachers’ happy remedy from strain out of their busy days, this can be a nice and amusing gift knowing that ‘laughter is the best medicine’. One example of this book is the ‘Coinage in France’- written by André Breton is Surrealist theoretician in 1935 to designate a sub-genre of satire and comedy in which laughter and amusement arises from skepticism and cynicism that’s more about the issue of death.

School Supplies

Anything that can be used in the school or inside the classroom is worth to give, including particularly the books for teachers, calculators, art supplies and large papers, and so on.

Teacher appreciation gift ideas should be sure not embarrassing because teachers often open their gifts in front of the students, that is why be certain to craft it school-appropriate.

Since teaching is one of the worldwide leading profession; for this reason- teachers, educators, professors, mentors, instructors – whatever you may call them, they deserve a Teacher Appreciation Day!

This month of August, Greenwood High School Student Union teachers and staffs were given honored at 3th annual celebration of teacher appreciation luncheon. There are approximate 400 people attended the event including all the school staffs. The event was not really publicly elaborated, but for sure the fun is on the highest level.

It is very heartwarming to know that these people are valued for they be worthy of it. From the staffs to the students and even to the parents, this is their most awaited day throughout a year to show their gratitude. During teacher appreciation day by means of presence and cards is how they say their ‘Thank You’ for being an influential person of their life.

Seeing that this day is actually the good opportunity to extend your honest gratefulness, to add spice to the celebration, apart from bits and pieces of gifts and cards teacher jokes to narrate and some riddles to puzzle teachers’ mind while the event is going on can definitely make your teachers proud of you!

Furthermore, this idea could make teachers and the crowd laugh out loud creating a very interesting and memorable day to everybody; something to treasure for a lifetime. There are funny stories where teachers can evoke the joy of their profession through your teacher jokes such as follows from iloveindia:

Fun at Kindergarten

On a special Teacher’s Day, a kindergarten teacher was receiving Teacher Day gifts. The Florist’s son handed her a gift. She shook it and held it over her head, and said, “I bet I know what it is..some flowers.” “That’s right!” said the boy. “But how did you know?” “Just a wild guess,” she said.

The next pupil was the candy storeowner’s daughter. The teacher held her gift overhead, shook it, and said, “I bet I can guess what it is…a box of candy.” “That’s right! But how did you know?” asked the girl. “Just a lucky guess,” said the teacher.

The next gift was from the liquor storeowner’s son. The teacher held it over her head but it was leaking. She touched a drop of the leakage with her finger and tasted it. “Is it wine?” she asked. “No,” the boy replied. The teacher repeated the process, touching another drop of the leakage to her tongue.

“Is it champagne?” she asked. “No,” the boy replied. The teacher then said, “I give up, what it is?” The boy replied, “A puppy!”