Teacher Appreciation Blog

Become a teacher is decision you should make being aware that that is not an easy jobs. You must be sure that you could manage teacher jokes and you won’t be mad at first problems students will set you.
If, despite all you still want to become a teacher there a few thing you may like to know:
Public school teachers in every state must have a bachelor’s degree and if you would like to teach an specific subject as mathematics, sciences or art it is better that your degree is related to it.
Ir order to get a job in public system you will need to complete an approved teacher training program or even a master’s degree with a certain amount of credits in subjects as educational skills, practical training, teaching students, …
Anyone who wants to teach must have certain abilities to communicate, motive and inspire students so these can do the better they can. Famous teachers in the world have this skills and their are able to keep pupil’s attention to what they are saying.
Talking about salary, as higher level education is , higher the amount of money you get for your work. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a range of teacher’s earning from $ 26,000 in 2007 for preschool teachers to $ 52, 540 for average secondary school teacher.
Teaching involves a wide knowledge about subject being taught which requires a lot of studies and preparation. Some times this effort it is not considered by students or their families but you will always have teacher appreciation day

On the 15th of May, students from South Korea, Mexico and Colombia celebrated their teacher appreciation by organising a couple of events.

In South Korea, there were a lot of events held in Seoul, the capital, on teacher’s day. For example, people gathered in an elementary school to read books to children at a certain school and on another school parents, students and teachers organised and participated in a sports event.

In Mexico teacher appreciation day has even been a national holiday since 1918. The Mexican teacher day is one of the top 25 teacher celebration days in the world. Many college and university students organise special parties for their professors and some of the universities also give out cash awards to teachers. There are also many public schools, in which students perform songs, dances,… to show their gratitude. Furthermore, one of the traditional activities is giving love cards to the teachers.

While in Colombia there are special school activities with songs, folk and modern dances, poems and other performances. Furthermore there are also some parties organised for teacher. But the teacher’s day celebration is not this important as in other countries:

As you can see, every country celebrates this special day in their own way with their own habits. We all feel the urge to give something back to our teachers. As long as we all know that we need to respect them and show our appreciation, it’s fine in whichever way we do this.

Hundreds of Monterey High students protest teacher transfers; the situation is complex and confusing. There are many and ambiguous reasons for the youngsters who have been protesting for days. But the main problem is that, according to the news and comments, teachers who don’t perform good enough, get transferred to Seaside.

In these situations, you always find people who agree and people who don’t. Naturally the time passes by and confusion will take advantage of the situation. I think it is really important to let the students express their beliefs. Student’s involvement in this cause shows their interest for education and the ability to defend a noble opinion.
Whether these teachers have touched them or this transfer is just unfair for the students, they won’t let the teachers go away. In this way, they really show their teacher appreciation.

What is really happening in the classes? Let’s be careful of the media shaping our opinion and make sure we understand the situation to support the right decision. These last events have been heavily mediates as always.

The students are at best to judge the quality of the teacher and of the education system. They deserve to be listened to before the end of this chapter. By protesting, these Mexican students show their appreciation early. Because on Friday 15 May, it’s Teacher Appreciation Day in Mexico, let’s hope this will not be spoiled by the problems that are occurring.

Today is the last day of a week full of celebrations. Teacher Appreciation Week is ending and we all had a very special week.

Everyone did their best to express their gratefulness and appreciation towards their favourite teachers and we all made a beautiful week out of it. We will remember this week for a long time. From Monday until Friday, students all over the US surprised their teachers with gifts, songs, performances and “thank you’s”, With Tuesday 4th of April as the absolute highlight.

Teachers are recharged and motivated to give there best for a whole new year. We showed the appreciation that they needed and deserved and now we can go back to giving them headaches and sleepless nights which they will gladly accept. Because they treat us as their children and this week, we have shown that we treat them as our second parents.

So let’s already think about how we are going to surprise our teacher next year, because I know that they will keep on doing the great job that they have done in the past years.That’s why I want to end this week in the best possible way.

A couple of weeks ago, I received this e-mail of a person called Brian Asselin and he told me the following story:
“My name is Brian Asselin, I am a musician living in the Ottawa (Canada) area currently finishing up my education degree at Ottawa University. I came across your website and thought I might drop you a line because I feel one of the biggest reasons why I have chosen to be a teacher myself is because of the continual support I received from my teachers of the past. In fact, I wrote a song dedicated to those teachers who continue to inspire us everyday.”

He also gave me a link to the song and this is the AMAZING result: enjoy

I couldn’t imagine a better closure of a great week filled with joy.

Today, May the 4th has been declared as Teacher Appreciation Day and that is why I want to say congratulations to all the men and women who have dedicated their lives to engaging and teaching young minds. They all deserve appreciation for the difficult job they have by managing, teaching and educating all these children.

It is necessary to recognize the work en dedication of these educators by saying thank you, giving a gift or rewarding the many excellent teachers in schools. No-one will ever forget the influence that one or more great teachers had on our decisions and our lives. So it is also important to be grateful for the teachers who influence our children’s lives.

So I say thank you those teachers who have influenced our lives, thank you to those teachers who have influenced our children’s lives, thank you to those teachers who keep on trying, thank you to those teachers who never give up, thank you to those teachers who educate the economy of tomorrow, thank you to Teacher Appreciation Day for remembering me how grateful I am.

“ The noblest purpose in which a man can dedicate himself is to teach his fellows.” Simón Bolivar

What is the role of the teachers today? I start by asking this question because it is a shame that when we get older, we tend to forget who we were in the past and who that teacher was who left us something valuable. Somehow I think that, in modern times, being or becoming a teacher must be hard. Different sources show that prospective the amount of teachers in developed countries is declining. Are the countries thinking to work together with universities to encourage future professionals to choose education as a future career? Or do the politicians know that they must improve the conditions of teachers? Do people realize that education is the most important profession in every country around the world? We forget all the time that we had been kids before and we benefited from the efforts that our teachers did for us, and keep doing for the new generation every day.

So all these matters make you realize the need to explain the importance of teaching and the existence of prospective professionals to reconsider the idea of teaching: why not become an elementary school teacher? When I was going to choose my career, I thought about the idea of becoming one but I have to admit: when I saw the monetary benefits I stepped back, I just did not want to make it and I forgot completely the benefit for the future.

The most wonderful gift to give to our teachers in return is to recognize the real status they deserve within society despite their current situation. We probably all have kids or are going to have some and we would like them to have a good education at schools, good teachers and join a reasonable education system.

“When did teachers become the betes noir of public education? Why are they getting all the blame for America’s public education failings? Everywhere you look, people are piling on teachers as if they are at the root of all that is bad in our public education system. Even President Obama has gotten in the act, supporting the mass firing of teachers at a Rhode Island school that has been deemed ‘failing’.” Dr. Jim Taylor

We all know that there are some problems with public education in America. And these problems are spreading towards more countries in the world. But since when does everyone concider the teachers and schools to be the problem of this failure? We all know that they are not the reason for the failure of the children.  So why do we blame them? Maybe we should search for the reasons in our own society instead of blaming others.

You hear people from everywhere saying that teachers are responsible for poor test results of children, lagging education standards and the growing information gap between different students. But do you really think that these people who educate children in poorly performing schools have fun in doing so? According to me, nobody likes working late, giving extra courses, preparing lessons, correcting terrible tests,… for an underpaid job because he likes keeping students ignorant. These educators do everything to make sure that the next generation is as well prepared as possible and we all blame them.

Maybe we should take a look at how prepared or UNprepared children are when entering schools. The number of tasks of a teacher are getting larger every day. These days, they have to raise students, educate them, activate them, prepare them for work, intagrate more practical lessons, … Where does it end? You see more and more that both the parents have to work to generate enough money. This is why they spend less time in raising their children and preparing them for schools. So the children go totally unprepared to school and have to learn everything all at once. Do you still wonder why they achieve bad results?

Now to get back to the question: ‘Why do we blame teachers?’ I think the awnser is easy, to protect ourselfs. When you accuse someone else, nobody thinks of blaming you. In my opinion our society is responsible for the problems with the educational level of our children and teachers are just an easy target to blame so we don’t feel guilty ourselves. What do you think? Well, I feel that we should appreciate their efforts. They try to fix the future economy  that we are destroying and instead of praising their effords, we accuse them. Don’t you agree?

So I think it is about time that we start showing our appreciation to teachers, and when is a better time to start doing so than on teacher appreciation day? let us all express our appreciation and do something nice for them.

Teacher’s Appreciation will be up in no more than 4 weeks now. It is time for us talk about what it really means to be a teacher. For some people, teaching has always been a vocation. For others, however, the wonderland of education was a late discovery. What is sure is that teaching is unique and it doesn’t feel like anything else. Another fact is that teaching is hard: it requires a lot of particular skills, the ability to adapt to everything and everyone and the will to compromise for pupils. See below our selection of tips to excel at work.

•    Be good at explaining things: Teaching requires a lot of patience. Explaining will be your man activity and you have to be sure that people gets you.

•    Always keep your cool: Children and teenagers of all ages tend to be provocative sometimes. For most students, irritating you is usually a good way for them to put you to the test.

•    Set your rules and stick to it: It is important to show transparence in your class, especially when it come to grades. Explain how you proceed from the beginning, this way, nobody will have the opportunity to question your methods.

•    Be fair: It is sometimes very difficult to differentiate the work of a student and the student himself. Don’t forget that the pupils’ personalities are not at stake during a lesson and that everyone is to be treated equally.

•    Master the content you teach: being credible is essential for a teacher. He/she has to remain a model for their students. That is why proving you actually know what you are talking about is a great part of your prep work.

•    Manage your time: nothing is worse than a teacher that sidetracks from the actual subject of the class. Remain concise and control the time that has been given to you. This way, you will keep your students concentrated and interested.

•    Be rewarding: students need to be pushed, and they also need to know when they are doing great or not. Take the time to compliment when necessary.

•    Be entertaining: it has been proved that humor is a very good way to get people’s attention. Students will stay focused if they are entertained. Be passionate!

•    Communicate: if you happen to have problems with one of your student, a parent or a colleague, just talk it out. Isn’t it the best way to arrange work things out?

•    Chose the right age range to teach to: finally, you have to be comfortable with your students. If you are not good with children, for instance, don’t teach in elementary schools.

In Discovery Center in Springfield, it got several activities that been scheduled in the month of September that includes monthly efforts of collecting educational supplies for Salvation Army and those visitors that will be bringing a packaged educational supply are provided a discounted admission. Since, the Salvation Army will be providing educational supplies for the public schools in the southwest portion of Missouri. Aside of that, the Discovery Center in Springfield includes the Star Party of its teacher appreciation. Since, the Salvation Army already provides educational supplies of public campus schools in the area portion in southwest Missouri. In September 7 to 11, the Discovery Center will be entirely closed but this week break will entirely conclude the Teacher Appreciation Day in 4 to 7 pm in Sept. 11. The entire educators will be admitted freely in this Discovery Center in order to just roam around without its school children and just be able to plan out their next field trip and its additional guest admission is only $5.

Its been scheduled also that the Grandparents Day will be 1-5pm in Sept. 13, 2009 when the admission price of this grandparents and their senior citizen is only $3. So, for those individuals who will be signing up grandparent membership on that day will now be able to receive a $5 off for their membership price. On the upcoming Sept 18, this Discovery Center will now be filled with several younger crowd of this Science Sprouts in the Museum Day. This topic will now be the tornadoes of thier early childhood learners that is up to the age of 6 only. With that, throughout this day there will be now a special free science presentation with a science story time that will geared towards the young learners. Since, the groups will now be able to schedule a 30 minute educational programs for some additional fee on it. As a result, the groups are encouraged to do some pre register towards a group rate only.

With that, the Discovery Science Club will now be able to meet in 10am until this Sept 19. Since, this group was entirely been designed for both parents and its children in order to join their educational learning team. The main topic in this upcoming September will be Flights of Fancy. Since, the group is entirely design for the children those ages 6 until 12 with its accompanying parent. With that, the club members will now learn about new sciences education and be able to build a project for two or just be able to get to see the aspect behind its scenes in the areas of its museums or some special equipment or more. With that, the pre-registration and pre-payment entirely required a cost of $20 for its member parent and child and $25 per non member parent or child. With that, everyone are invited to this Star Party that is 5 to 8 pm in Sept 25 as this Discovery Center and Springfield Astronomical Society will now be continuing of celebrating their International Year of Astronomy in 2009. Since, this Discovery Center will want that the 150,000 individuals will be able to look into the world through this telescope. The Star Party in the patio was already been sponsored by this Jon Morse of Merrill Lynch and its admission entirely applies of the insider of this museum. Meanwhile, the scheduled of this SkySchool will be in Sept. 25 to 27. Since, this variety of three day will be use for the student community resources learning experiences in order to designed and be able to support both educators and learners explore science astronomy topics, and resourceful content. With that pre-registration and its pre-payment are entirely required. Its been considered that this Discovery Center in Springfield is entirely an hands on interactive science center that been located in 438 E of St. Louis St that is entirely located in the downtown of Springfield. With that, the Discovery Center will be open 9 am to 5pm especially in Tuesday until Thursday, while 9 am to 8pm in Friday and 10am to 5pm in Saturday. Meanwhile, 1-5pm in Sunday. The admission is entirely free for its members and those children that are under 2. Since, the non members will be paying about $9 for their adults, 7$ for children that ages 3 to 15 and $8 for the seniors.

The teacher appreciation celebrations in the United States have already finished. The well organize activities that been lead by the students and school administrators with some sponsors in order to financially support the activity have already come to an end both in the government and private institutions. Even though that the activity already ended but still the teachers treasures the aspects that had happened in the different activities especially to those teachers who receive awards and some special recognition such as scholarship of foregoing masters degree or doctorate educational program or just receiving a plaque of teachers appreciation awards that the organizers that been set as part of rewarding to their profession and performing their job function diligently and efficiently.

Even though that the activities in regards to teacher appreciation that involves gift giving to the teachers, providing plaque awards and some awards given by the government and school administrators or by the learners but appreciating the teachers must not end rather be continually practice appreciating the teachers even in ordinary days through saying thank you. By just saying a simple thanks to the teachers already considered as big aspect of appreciation that even gifts or any awards can’t be compared into. Since, it give them a sense of importance not only as being a mentor but as well being a friend or second mother or father especially to the young learners especially to the mere fact that school itself have already become a second home to the young individuals. In which, most of their time were allotted to the exposure of their fellow learners and their teacher as being their mentor of their continuing education.

Indeed, saying simple thank you had already brought a positive significant effect to the part of the teachers that money can’t buy. With that, appreciating the teachers must not only end in the teacher appreciation celebration but rather is just a start in order to le the learners and other people express their appreciation or thanks to their teachers who supported and mentor them in order to be successful individuals in the society that is quite in line with career field.