National Teacher Appreciation Week 2013

Teachers play a key role in your child's success in school. Sometimes a simple "Thanks" is all a teacher needs to hear to feel appreciated and valued. But since May 6-10 is National Teacher Appreciation Week, why not take time to celebrate your child's teacher with a few of these ideas:


1. Write a letter or design a card. Encourage your child to design a special letter or card to say "Thank you" to his/her teacher.

2. Show your support for the tremendous work teachers do all year to provide the best instruction possible for the children in their care.

3. Work with several other parents and create a small gift basket of goodies for a teacher. Teachers love to receive small gifts that they can use in their classroom, like: sticky note pads, stickers, markers, tape, glue sticks, tissues, and hand sanitizer. Usually by this time of the year, school supplies are running out and teachers are having to buy things with their own money.

4. During NTA week, visit your child's school and offer to help in your child's classroom. Be a lunch monitor or playground monitor. Giving a teacher 15 minutes of "free time" will be a welcomed break and an appreciated gesture to show that you value the work of a teacher.

Talk to your child and think of special ways to honor your teacher. Let your child be creative and think of some fun ways to show his/her teacher how much she/he is appreciated for all their hard work at school.