Program Ideas:
Solicit Teachers for wish list -- to be handed out throughout the week.
Decorate the teacher lounge in the school’s theme for the year.
Theme box lunches.
Raffle prices every day during announcements.
Have students wear their teacher’s favorite color.
Put out a flyer to let parents know appreciation week is coming.
Ask students and parents to write letters or short notes of appreciation.
Ask the teachers if they had time to answer this question: 'Why do you continue to teach with extreme buget cuts, lack of respect for the profession, larger and larger class sizes, and lack of respect from the children?' With the answers I included them on the front page of the flyer with the teacher’s name and grade and subject taught. These answers were amazing. Then I included on the back the ways we planned on letting them know they are appreciated:
Collect canned goods and non perishables for local food pantry in honor of SOUP-er Teachers
Highlighters in mailboxes with label 'It would be impossible to highlight all you do.'
Desk planners with next school year’s calendar of events
Create School Supplies "Cake" to help teachers prepare for following school year.
Walk of Appreciation: Ask students (and parent helpers) to come to school early one day. Provide them with chalk to write/draw notes to the teachers on the walkway into the building—one sidewalk block for each class.
Teacher Appreciation Sharpies -- As a gift during teacher appreciation week, they each received a Sharpie marker with the following on an attached note: 'Let’s just put it in black and white: Thanks for making our kids so sharp.'
Mystery Feature Teacher on its bulletin board in the school lobby. The group selects a teacher and finds out interesting facts about that person’s family, hobbies, and schooling, among other things. The clues are then posted on the bulletin board, with arrows leading to a covered panel. Parents and students try to guess that month’s Feature Teacher based on the clues before lifting up the panel to reveal the picture and name of the mystery teacher.
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