Supplement Recommendations

<p>If a student is going to ask for a recommendation from someone other than an academic subject teacher, perhaps a teacher from a different class that they are close with, how does the teacher go about filling out the rec? Do they just type up a letter about the student and send it in on school letter head? If so, what do you do when the teacher has left the district and is now back teaching middle school? Would they use that letter head or the school from which they worked at with the student? Or, do they use the same form that the academic subject teachers use? Or, can they just write a letter and send that in, without letter head? What is the rule of thumb here?</p>

<p>Anybody know what to do with a supplemental rec? What should the person write the rec on? Just type it up on plain paper with a letterhead? Does it matter if that teacher left the district and is now teaching at a middle school? The point is I got very close with a teacher who I have known for over four years now. He was laid off due to our district being in debt, got scared and went to a different district, and then couldn't return when he got called back. How should he go about writing a rec for me? And what should I send him?</p>

<p>I would send him the standard form, just so he can get an idea what is expected in terms of analysis of the applicant. Letter format is fine.</p>

<p>What about the colleges that have forms strictly for academic teachers? In this case, he is not. He was my teacher from 8th grade, but we kept in touch, then he was moved up to the high school and he was the teacher I was a Peer Mentor for (tutor students in class), only I never really needed to. I helped him out throughout last year with checking his students' vocab papers because unlike him, I could get through all six of his hours in an hour and a half. Now he is at a different school and I'm losing my mind because I don't get to talk to him at all really. Haven't heard from him in two months! I actually wrote to him in the mail this time rather than waiting for an email. I am asking him in this letter I sent if he'll write the rec. I then need to get everything together in case he says he'll write one.</p>

<p>As MomofWildChild said, I would send him the standard form, so he has an idea of what subjects to cover. Then he can write his recommendation on any letterhead Make sure he puts your name, birthdate and SSN on the rec he writes in the upper right or left corner.</p>

<p>Don't worry about what form he uses. Or that he is now at a different school. It doesn't matter. For colleges which have forms strictly for academic teachers, make sure you have two of your current/recent academic teachers submit those recs. This one will be an extra and can be in its own format. The only thing to double check is that some colleges discourage additional recs, so don't use him for any such college you might apply to.</p>