What to give to the teacher on Teacher's Day?

Teacher's Day in Russia is celebrated on October 5. Russians congratulate educators together with the whole world - on this day, World Teachers' Day, established by UNESCO, is celebrated. And according to the good old tradition, it is customary to give gifts to teachers, class teachers. And then parents have a lot of questions, the main of which is how to choose a good present.

Not so long ago, for some reason, it was believed that a box of chocolates and a bouquet of flowers for the teacher was enough for a good mood on their professional holiday. Today, there are tendencies towards a more personalized selection of gifts, and this cannot but rejoice. Parents and children try to present original gifts so that they will be remembered by your beloved teacher for many years.

When choosing a gift, you should take into account that we are talking about a professional holiday, and the present should fully correspond to the spirit of this day, and also reflect the area of ​​interests and hobbies of a particular teacher. The gender and age of the teacher should also be considered. It will be good if the gift matches the specialization of the teacher.

Based on this, it is immediately worthwhile to understand that such presentations will not be too appropriate for a professional teacher's holiday.

• Too expensive gifts - even if they are presented with a pure heart, and others and teachers, gold and expensive gadgets can be regarded as an attempt to bribe. An expensive gift puts the teacher in an uncomfortable position.
• Cash - it doesn’t matter how many there are in the envelope (even a little), cash is a bribe.The teacher violates the law by accepting such a gift.
• Cosmetics, perfumes - regardless of gender and age, the presented cream or lipstick, perfume or powder can be regarded as a hint that the hero of the occasion does not look the best.
• Jewelry and clothes - these are so individual things that a person tries to pick up for himself personally, trying on, wondering if this thing is suitable for others already in the wardrobe. Clothing and jewelry are an inappropriate gift for a teacher, which is considered to be a good one, but still not a native person for you.
• Food and alcohol. Cheap food and a bottle of liquor are an inappropriate and indecent gift, while expensive delicacies and elite alcohol are another bribe option.

So what to present to the teacher on his professional holiday? Try to find the answer to this question in the profession of the hero of the occasion. To facilitate the task, we provide TOP of universal gifts, which will be both appropriate and inexpensive.

• Books - It’s good if they are publications that are somehow related to the subject, which is taught by the teacher, but you should not buy textbooks. The teacher already has them. A great option is to become a class and buy a good detailed encyclopedia with beautiful illustrations. If you know the teacher’s literary preferences for sure, you can choose fiction, but it’s easy to guess, it’s possible that a person has already read the book.

• Beautiful notebook or glider - The main thing is that it be roomy, large, but compact in format, so that it fits easily in the bag. Teachers write a lot, plan, take notes and memos, and therefore such a gift will come in handy.

• Folder for papers and documents - It is better to choose a high-quality leather that will serve the teacher for many years. Design can be any, but it is better to adhere to a strict and formal tone.

• Convenient table lamp - It will come in handy at work and at home, because teachers read, write, check notebooks, fill out a classroom journal, and often take part of the work home to complete in the calm atmosphere in the evening what was difficult in the school rush. A lamp with concentrated dim light will be very handy.

• Compact stationery set - it is better to choose a desktop option, which includes pencils, pens, paper clips, a stapler, a stand for all this.

• Gift Certificate - This is a personalized gift option. If you see that your teacher pays great attention to his appearance and jewelry, then give him a gift certificate to a store of good cosmetics, where the teacher will be able to choose what he really needs. If the teacher is fond of sports, then you should give a certificate to a sports store, and for a lover of plants and animals you can present a certificate to a flower shop, a pet store.

• Personalized tableware - the teacher will always have a tea or coffee mug by the way, and if it is personalized, it will be doubly pleasant. On a cup or glass, you can order a wish inscription with an appeal by name, a photo of the entire class, as well as any other designs.

• Flowers - this is not about a bouquet that will fade in a few days and will be in the trash, but about the flowers in the pot. Even if the teacher is not a great connoisseur of the intricacies of growing indoor plants, he can place a beautiful plant in the classroom on the windowsill. The main thing is that the selected plant often bloom beautifully.

There are some gender nuances, i.e. when choosing a gift should take into account the gender of the teacher. Women teachers can be lovingly presented with a bouquet, not of flowers, but of sweets. Also, many pastry shops today offer a service such as baking themed cookies.

Is your geography teacher not formed by receiving a box of cookies in the form of continents, countries, continents as a gift? A biology teacher will definitely appreciate cookies in the form of animals, plants. In the same way, you can order a small cake with a periodic table for a chemistry teacher.

Cookies and sweets are useless for male teachers, because most of the stronger sex are indifferent to sweets. You should also choose practical gifts, because all men, regardless of profession, are rational. Therefore, for a male teacher, it’s better to choose what he can use daily. These are the folders and notebooks listed above (if it’s not about a physical education teacher), as well as more original gifts, for example, a heated cup powered by USB. A man will be pleased if he is presented with a large supply of coffee beans or tea (depending on which drink he prefers).

A male teacher will be delighted by a large flash memory card, the main thing is that it has a strict neutral design. Although a physical education teacher, for example, just needs a flash drive in the shape of a soccer ball, and a labor teacher uses a flash drive made in the form of a hammer or chisel.

Of all the teachers, it is the class teacher who is usually closest to the students and their parents. It is with him that the most important issues are resolved, it is he who helps to understand conflict situations and rejoices for the success of each of his students. Therefore, a gift to the class teacher is a special topic for conversation.

Usually, the preferences and hobbies of the class teacher and the children and parents know better than the hobbies and hobbies of other teachers, leading the children with certain objects, and therefore the choice of a gift in this case can really be personified as much as possible. Here are some ideas for a gift from the class on Teacher's Day.

• Portrait of a teacher in his photograph. Such a gift will be a true recognition, a sign of respect and gratitude. Valid portraits in any technique - graphics, watercolors, paintings. Today, such a service as the transformation of a person in a portrait depending on his profile of activity is also in great demand. For example, you can order a portrait in which a class teacher teaching history appears in the image of a Roman commander or Queen of Egypt, and a class teacher teaching literature in the image of a poet of the Middle Ages. You can simply make the king, princess, fairy or wizard out of the class teacher. The possibilities are endless.

• Personalized cake. The design of the confectionery product may be as arbitrary as the design of the portrait described above. It all depends on the imagination of the donors and the capabilities of the confectioner, who will take up the order.

• Wall Clock. It can be either a finished product on a school theme, or made to order, with a portrait of a teacher, for example, or the entire class. Such a clock will fit perfectly into the interior of the classroom and will remind the teacher of the class for a long time even after the children grow up and leave the walls of the school.

• Elegant metal bookmarks for books and textbooks - Such a small but pleasant gift will always come in handy, because teachers deal with a large number of paper carriers.

• Portrait of a teacher from photos of students - a very unusual gift, which is now very popular. A relatively new service of photo workshops is the production of a portrait of a person from a photograph from a mass of small pictures of his students. It looks very unusual and touching.

• Movie or mini-movie. Parents and children can make such a gift together.There are a lot of ideas on how to congratulate the class teacher, in addition, most children are already coping well with the task of making a video and editing it in a single video. Such a congratulation for the teacher is of particular value, because it is clear that a solid preparation is required for the video - you need a script, you need to shoot everything, and then put the music on and mount it. You can insert photos and videos into the clip, starting from the year when the class teacher accepted the class, to make modern shots.

• Photo album. It's not about an ordinary album for photographs, but a personalized beautiful album in which parents will carefully collect pictures of children from the very first year of their education with this class teacher.

Like all other teachers, a class teacher will do gift certificate to a particular store or beauty salon, to visit the water park, cinema, theater. But you should take into account the open date and the number of those who can make the company a teacher. For example, if you know for sure that the class teacher has a husband and two children, present a certificate to the water park for four, so that your teacher can spend an unforgettable day out with his family.

The headmaster is by far the most important person in it. But, alas, he is far less familiar to most students and parents than the class teacher, unless, of course, the class teacher is not the director of the school. Pupils and mothers with dads usually do not really know anything about the character traits, hobbies, hobbies and life views of the director. In the best case, rumors can be heard about them that are dangerous to trust. And here the question of choosing a gift becomes perhaps the most difficult.

First you need to clearly understand that personal things, for example, a tie, cufflinks, items of clothing, money, alcohol, are not given to the director under any circumstances and on no occasion. You should not look at the director as an official, manager, who does not have a special relationship with Teacher’s Day. Before getting such a position, your director, most likely, has come a long way from a simple teacher, and maybe continues to teach now, but because for him this professional holiday is no less important than for other teachers.

Any gift from this list will help to emphasize the importance of the profession, express your recognition to the director.

• Magnetic Whiteboard - it will help him to conduct meetings more effectively, receive reports from ordinary teachers, and will always allow him to keep in front of his eyes the important things that cannot be forgotten.

• Large office organizer - the director’s work is regulated, scheduled every day, so the organizer will come in handy.

• Signature Engraved Pen - it all depends on the budget. You can take inexpensive options, but you can more solid. Engraving is ordered separately.On it you can engrave the initials of the person to whom the gift is intended, as well as a dedicatory inscription, for example, "Ivan Semenovich from 7th" B "class."

If the director himself is a subject teacher, you can build a gift theme based on his specialization. Here, custom-made confectionery products will come to your aid: a cake with physical formulas - for the director-physicist, cookies with predictions - for the director-historian, chocolate chess for the director-mathematician, etc. You can present a gift set of good fresh honey.

The director, as well as the class teacher, can be given as a gift a portrait to order from a photograph, but with imagination you should be careful here. Not every director will want to hang his own portrait in his office, in which he is represented in the image of Ivan the Terrible or as the principal of the Hogwarts Dumbledore school. Will be better, if it will be an ordinary, but high-quality portrait made in any technique. You can order it from artists in any city, as well as in art salons.

The headmaster may like A good gift game set (checkers, chess). He sometimes has free time, and with some visitors it can be much more diplomatic to conduct difficult negotiations over a game of chess.

You can give a picture on the mouthpiece, a stationary desktop case for glasses with a soft bottom, a desktop card holder-cube. You can present a beautiful wooden or stone box - on numerous shelves of the director’s office there is sure to be a place for it.

Given that the director often receives guests, you can present a coffee or tea service. It is important that he be moderately strict, fit perfectly into the atmosphere of the director's office.

His work is nervous, and it does not depend on his age, gender, and therefore, a director who has a certain sense of humor and easily makes contact with people can be presented with something that will help him relax. There is a large selection of antistress souvenirs, a foot massager that can be discreetly placed under the table and combine work with a pleasant relaxing foot massage procedure.

Beautiful gift hourglass that can be installed on the table, "Newton's cradle", as well as the contemplation of swimming fish, are good stress relievers. In order not to burden the director with the need to care for the aquarium, give a closed ecosystem - an aqua farm. In it, small fish swimming in a small table-top aquarium provide nutrition to green plants growing above, while plants provide oxygen and nutrition to fish. And beautiful, and does not require special care and cleaning.

If the director loves indoor flowers (this is perfectly noticeable by the degree of gardening of his office), feel free to give the plant in a pot. Choose an elegant and beautiful culture that will often bloom and delight its owner. You can buy a small tangerine tree or lemon in a pot or give Japanese bonsai.

Please note that the handicrafts of his students made and presented from the bottom of their hearts are of particular value to the school principal. Let the most talented and needlework guys in the class do this. It could be:

• panels from natural materials;
• beautiful quilling painting;
• glass vase decorated with the hands of students using the stained glass technique;
• Homemade photo frame made from natural materials.

Among the unusual gift ideas for the director, one can offer the following options:

• small USB aquarium with a goldfish - in addition to contemplating the movements of a graceful goldfish calming a person, the director will be able to take advantage of other opportunities of such a presentation - it has a watch, a stand for office supplies;

• heated hammock - the thing is very interesting, attached to the side of the table on the inside and makes the process more enjoyable;

• massager for the back on the back of the chair - there are a lot of options - from ball massagers to vibration;

• small table fan - great help in hot weather;

• perpetual calendar - it is best to give preference to a wooden model, it looks great, and for many years will relieve the hero of the occasion from the need to buy paper analogues.

Among the unusual gifts, of which there are a great many, I would like to mention separately the table fountains and the Levitron globe (a small globe that hovers on a magnetic field) - these things will not only serve the good purpose of relaxing the tired director, but will also be an excellent interior decoration of the office.

Subject teachers are a diverse people, and therefore, buying the same notebooks for everyone is not the best option. You need to understand that each of them first of all teaches a certain subject, therefore it is best to choose themed and practical gifts that will please the teacher and will be useful to the teacher or teacher in his daily work.

• Teacher of Russian language and literature - an e-book, a good set of pens, a beautiful notepad-glider, a certificate in a bookstore or a gift edition of the Dahl dictionary, a dictionary of borrowed words, stresses and so on.

• To the teacher of algebra, geometry - a laser pointer, a compact USB-powered table lamp, a set of gift stickers on which you can write down formulas and always keep them in front of your eyes, a personalized ballpoint or fountain pen with engraving.

• Biology teacher - roses or other flowers in a flask, a projector with a screen, plants and flowers in pots, seeds of exotic plants, an electron microscope, an aqua farm or a desktop mini aquarium with a goldfish, a colorful gift encyclopedia of the animal, underwater or plant world.

• Chemistry teacher - a good solid coat, in which it will be convenient to carry out laboratory practical work with reagents, a set of flasks and glass rods for mixing reagents, a chocolate periodic table (each element is represented by a candy with the name of the element), a diary for a chemist with formulas and reference data.

• Foreign language teacher - a large dictionary, a portrait from a photograph on the background of the symbol of the country whose language the teacher conveys to the children. For example, a French teacher on the background of the Eiffel Tower, an English teacher on the background of Big Ben, a German teacher on the background of the German monument, the female symbol of the country. You can also present a box with a flag or national emblem, a notebook with the same symbols.

• Geography teacher - globe, sweet globe made of chocolate, globe cake. You can give a desktop safe-piggy bank in the form of a globe. In professional activities, a laser pointer, models of continents and continents, as well as collections of atlases, maps, and an encyclopedia on the subject of this subject will be useful.

• Trudovik - a recipe book with illustrations, if the teacher teaches girls, any kitchen utensils, dishes. A teacher who teaches labor education in boys can be presented with a set of tools, electronic roulette, power tools and consumables for him.

• Drawing teacher - a set of good wax crayons, paints, gouache, pencils, watercolors, a palette, a set of brushes. You can present a small set for pottery, as well as a gift certificate to an art salon or shop, which presents a large selection of products for those involved in modeling and fine art.

• Computer science teacher - a capacious flash memory card, a convenient leather case for CDs, a wireless mouse, an external computer memory, a heated cup powered by USB.

• Music teacher - music notebooks, a set of discs with a collection of classical music, a bright illustrated encyclopedia with a description of the biography and creative path of world composers.

• Physical education teacher - a fitness bracelet, a smart watch with a pedometer, heart rate monitor and calorie counter, a good ball autographed by a famous soccer player or basketball player, a cup or a medal for first place and an engraving on “The best physical education of all time”, tickets for the match of your favorite team (previously, though , you need to find out which team your physical education fan is for the gift to be appropriate), a gift certificate to the sporting goods store.

This is just a rough list of gift ideas for teachers. A lot depends on how well you know your teacher. If you know for sure that your physics teacher spends his free time hiking and fishing, feel free to present a tent, a camping set of dishes, a sleeping bag, a compass, and a set of mosquito and tick remedies (very useful for hiking). And if your chemistry teacher knits soft toys at leisure, give him a set for creativity that will allow him to create new masterpieces.

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