Teacher/Therapist gifts.

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Teacher/Therapist gifts.
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Thu, 11-29-2007 - 1:31pm

What are your best ideas ?


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Registered: 11-12-2007
Thu, 11-29-2007 - 1:47pm

I was thinking of gift cards from Starbucks, Target, and/or Barnes & Noble. But I wish I had an idea for something more personal. I would love to hear other ideas on this topic too.

-- Innie

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Thu, 11-29-2007 - 2:21pm

Well I have been buying teacher gifts for years (I have a 20 yr old) and one thing I know not to do is to buy all of those cutsie knicknacks.

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Thu, 11-29-2007 - 2:35pm

I usually do a food thing: hot cocoa (aka "snowman soup" -- I think I had a poem that went with it), cranberry-raspberry relish with a note that said my child "relished" having them for a teacher, sweet bread, etc.

This year I'm looking at some personalized pencils for my ds teacher since her students always seem to be out of pencils and borrowing/losing hers. I've seen some with wooden apples on top of the pencil, and I've seen candy cane shaped personalized pencils. I figure either one will be harder for the kids to "forget" to return since they'll be obviously the teacher's.

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Thu, 11-29-2007 - 2:39pm

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Edited 2/19/2008 12:04 pm ET by littleroses
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Thu, 11-29-2007 - 2:51pm

Oh, I forgot to say that I like when a room mom does a money collection of like $5-10/each. I think the teacher can get a much nicer gift that way, and it's easier on all the families.

(Tho' I was disappointed last year when ds room mom used the money to buy the teacher an iPod rather than just put the money in a gift card. The teacher was gracious about it, but I think it was so totally NOT his thing and a huge waste of a large sum of money.)

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Thu, 11-29-2007 - 4:06pm

I've got multiples to shop for too.


Ryan (Kindy) has a teacher and a parapro.

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Thu, 11-29-2007 - 4:20pm

There are some great ideas here thanks for sharing

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Thu, 11-29-2007 - 5:27pm

We have lots and lots of teachers/therapists/aides to deal with so I have gone the cookie route.

I get cute bags (those baskets sound AWESOME LR) and bake some homemade cookies and put a little ribbon on them. I make some kick butt cookies (home made biscotti, etc) beyond the regular cookies so it goes over well and the teachers got to look forward to it each year since I often had special ed teachers that were with us for many years.

For special teachers I would add a gift card or a book or a candle. Something of that nature. But the majority would be those other aides in the classroom you didn't want to leave out, etc. Cookies were easy and cheap when I was buying for 20 or so.

As a teacher, I got a little bag of chocolates with a ribbon and bow for thanksgiving from one student and it MADE MY WEEK! Just to be remembered with a nice thank you note was WAY more than enough honestly.

what I would like for christmas as a teacher? Gosh I would be happy with a candy cane. I WOULD LOVE a card made by my students. That would be really cool and I would keep it. I would love said card or picture with a picture of the student that I could keep. I would love to make a scrap book of my students from each year and if moms took a minute to sit down with their child and make something for me it would be the best. I honestly don't need anything else. Just to be appreciated and to have the parents say thank you now and again if they thought I was doing a good job would be more than enough. I don't want gifts because parents think they are supposed to buy one. I just want to know that they like the job I am doing, kwim?

Renee

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Thu, 11-29-2007 - 5:32pm

If a gift card make it to a teacher store, walmart or dollar tree or something similar.

I have found the hard way that there is a lot of materials I need for my class that I end up paying for myself. Everything from buttons for this weeks theme to crayons.

Sure you get a budget from the district but it is minimal and you have to make it last a year AND in my district between the time I order something and I get it in can take 6 weeks or more. I am sorry but there are somethings which just can't wait that long.

I have heard of teachers doing taxes having more than $1K in itemized deductions of just materials they bought for class with no reimbursment

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Thu, 11-29-2007 - 6:19pm

This is our 3rd year of xmas gifts becuase we had to do them all for rpeschool also.

 


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