<p>Anyone giving their teachers a gift (small, token) as a thank you for writing their recommendations? If so, what are you giving?</p>
<p>Baked goods, small music download cards, small restaurant gift cards, nice handwritten note. Just a small gesture -- don't go overboard.</p>
<p>^ iTunes gift cards . . .? No thank you lol.</p>
<p>Bake some brownies and/or cookies and give them those. Always works like a charm.</p>
<p>A thank you letter (handwritten, not emailed) is sufficient.</p>
<p>I just wrote each teacher a thank you note....don't forget to send a thank you note to your guidance counselor at the end of the year...they do a lot of work!! I did it to be nice....and my GC approached me after graduation and told me how thankful he was because most students never thank him for the work he does.</p>
<p>The best thing to do is a handwritten, thoughtful note of appreciation. Sadly, most students don't bother to do even that simple expression of gratitude for someone's taking about an hour of their time to help them.</p>
<p>There was a thread on this last year you may want to look at. But at a minimum a thank you note should be done.</p>
<p>sAxsKy: My suggestion of music cards is HEAVILY influenced by the fact that a large no. of my daughter's teachers are huge music fans -- maybe it's not a great idea overall. LOL</p>
<p>I was thinking about giving my teachers nice handwritten thank you notes and an oriental porcelain vase--does that sound okay?</p>
<p>T26E4: Haha my bad. I guess since the majority of my teachers are > 40-45 I have a different perspective.</p>
<p>that itunes gift card is really clever, my math teacher who is writing my recommendation is a huge interpol fan and buys all of his music off itunes, and is always exchanging cd copies with his students. (he's 53)</p>
<p>i give starbucks cards</p>
<p>My daughter did handwritten thankyous but last year a classmate of her's gave her college counselor a coffee mug (from the college she was attending) filled with personlized M&M's in her new school colors with "thank you" written on them... I wish we would have thought of that!!!</p>
<p>As a former prof, I treasure the handwritten notes of appreciation that I've gotten from students far more than I treasure any material gifts from them.</p>
<p>I'm definitely going to write personalized notes to all of my rec teachers and my counselor (probably on cards with my photography on the front) and may bake something as well. I'm not going to buy anything though, I feel weird about that...</p>
<p>My daughter wrote thank you notes and a small gift for one of her teachers.
At the end of the year, I brought flowers and a box of chocolates to her guidance counselor to thank her for all of her support.
I felt that she ( as well as her secretary ) were instrumental in getting both of my girls ino their colleges as well as scholarships</p>
<p>For both guidance counselor and teachers who wrote recommendations, my daughters wrote personalized thank yous and we gave a lovely, simply styled glass candle jar sold as a fundraiser for “College Visions”, a local non profit providing college counseling assistance to inner city and first generation students. The gift box comes with a note about how the proceeds will help students in need. I felt that my kids were lucky to have the support of great teachers and guidance counselors (well, mostly!) and that we were in the position of having the knowledge and resources to help them navigate the application process. I guess this was our way of honoring the teachers and guidance counselors with a donation in their name to a needy organization.</p>
<p>The candle is very high quality and unisex…worked for everyone!</p>