<p>Yeah, my question is what the title says. I don't know what kind of gift is appropriate for teachers. I really want to thank them. I will def. give them thank you cards but what else can be the "gift"??</p>
<p>any suggestion will be appreciated.</p>
<p>The nicest thing that you can give them is a handwritten note expressing appreciation fro specific things that they have taught you and specific ways that theyhave helped you. It's also very thoughtful to thank them again in writing after you've decided where you're going to college. Specify in the note where you're going, and also let them know about any other acceptances.</p>
<p>Icing on the cake would be sending them a postcard next fall from college.</p>
<p>Most people who are teachers and GCs do their low paid work because they love to help students, and the best thank-you that they get is when students let them know how much the teachers/GCs have helped.Teachers and GCs treasure such notes and tend to keep them for years. Those gifts are worth more than material gifts. If teachers and GCs were motivated by material things, they'd have chosen a different line of work.</p>
<p>Ugh, time to sit down and write thank you notes then...</p>
<p>I just gave $20 gift cards to them for Christmas.</p>
<p>I gave my GC a thank-you boat...
My dad taught me how to make them. Apparently it's a common origami trick in Taiwan.</p>
<p>Cookies and a note!</p>
<p>I'm not a senior yet, but for a summer rec I gave my teacher cookie cutters because she loves baking cookies.</p>
<p>I think anything personalized - suited to their tastes - whether it be a note or an actual present, just something that shows that you obviously put effort and/or thinking into the present will do fine.</p>
<p>I agree with Tako, it's always nice if you personalize it. I haven't heard back from any colleges yet, but once I do I plan to buy my English teacher a couple of Suduko (sp?) books because she's completely addicted to them and she wrote me a REALLY nice rec. letter. And of course a nice thank-you letter (non-generic, maybe even hand-written) is always good to include with whatever little "goodies" you get them.</p>
<p>My daughter gave one teacher a model car (replica of her car) because he loves her car and he teases her about it all the time. She gave another teacher a nicely framed class picture. She also wrote them each a thank-you card. I think the point is that she personalized it and it didn't cost a lot of money.</p>
<p>I went the personalized route with my thank-you gifts:</p>
<p>I gave one of my teacher recommenders (English teacher) a journal (notebook) that I had bought in Edinburgh. It had John Singer Sargent's portrait of Lady Agnew on it--there was sort of a mild perpetual joke in the English class that I took from this teacher because of one of the students' resemblance to Lady Agnew. :p</p>
<p>I gave my other recommender (French teacher) a Monet calendar that I'd bought in Paris. </p>
<p>I donated a "share" of a llama to Heifer International in the name of my third recommender. He's an alpaca farmer as well as a teacher (drama and world religions--I asked him to do Stanford's optional letter of recommendation, since it's supposed to be more of an EC point of view, and he has seen me onstage more than in an academic classroom setting), and he's a big proponent of Heifer and other charities.</p>
<p>I didn't give anything to one teacher, even though I love her, just because I was broke.</p>
<p>But my other recommender was extremely supportive. She had sent me an atlas when she found out I got a 5 on the AP World History and 100 on Global Regents because she knew I loved maps. So I bought her the DvD "The Constant Gardener" because it's one of my favorite movies and I thought she'd like it, because she's very interested in things like thatr.</p>
<p>Eh, I think I'm just going to do nice long thank you letters and my senior pic since they like to collect those. The postcard from college next year is really nice. I really can't afford 7 or so books/DVD's. Tis the thought that counts.</p>
<p>"I just gave $20 gift cards to them for Christmas"</p>
<p>I am a former professor, and I would not have liked that kind of gift. I would have felt like I were being paid or bought off.</p>
<p>For me, the best gift would be a nice handwritten note or a very small, inexpensive gift like the cookie cutters that someone mentioned that they gave to a teacher who liked to cook.</p>
<p>I was digging through the Valentine's day candy randomly at the store and I found these really cute chocolate apples. So I bought one for all three of the teachers that wrote recommendations for me. </p>
<p>Still need to think of what to get my GC, I want it to be a little nicer and more personal. She's really helped me a lot.</p>
<p>I gave my teachers presents around Christmas because they wrote me recommendations for my EA app... so they were sort of Christmas presents too. I gave one teacher painted ornaments (and my mom added a "spy" set for her 1st-grade son) because she had traveled with me, given me a book and my little brother a t-shirt, etc. I gave two other teachers books (chosen carefully based on inside jokes, etc - travel book for the one who was retiring, critique of language for the English teacher). For my guidance counselor I bought a painted glass vase. None of my gifts cost more than $15. I included thank-you cards and personally thanked them for their help. I think they were all very happy. :)</p>
<p>Starbucks gift baskets!!</p>
<p>At my DS's school we are prohibited from buying teachers/GCs gifts. It's not a bad policy. It means they get lots of homemade cookies, since that falls under the radar, but I strongly believe a heart-felt thank you note is worth more than even the most expensive gift.</p>
<p>Gummy worms!</p>