What is a good retirement present for a French teacher?
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at
8:28 am
Zully asked:
I’ve been with my French teacher for 4 years, and she is retiring this year. She was going to retire last year, but she decided to stay and see my class graduate. What would be a good retirement present to get her? Any ideas are appreciated! Thanks!
I’ve been with my French teacher for 4 years, and she is retiring this year. She was going to retire last year, but she decided to stay and see my class graduate. What would be a good retirement present to get her? Any ideas are appreciated! Thanks!
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french fries! lol jk! but how about some french perfume or something that has the Eiffel tower on it–yah that would be so cool!
Please consider giving her something to remember you guys by. If you think about it, teachers are quickly forgotten at schools because the student population changes completely every 4 years. Often retiring teachers will come back to visit and no one will know them–it’s really sad because these teachers are remembered. . .there’s just no sign of it. So, it would be so meaningful if you guys did something to let her know she’ll be remembered, and to remind her of the influence she had on you.
When one of my coworkers retired, we had all her students who wanted to write her a letter. We took the letters and put them in a photo album. You could do something similar. . .maybe even put a group photo on the front. You could, of course make it French themed.
If this gift is from only you, you could give her a card with a letter in it explaining specifically what you learned from her. Honestly, you could go out and buy some knicknack, but more than anything teachers tend to like to see what you’ve made, so a scrapbook, big card from lots of student, powerpoint of the students in your class, or imovie of people saying “thanks.” would all be morre meaningful–even though they’re more work.
Ask her if she has your class’s year book. If she hasn’t get one, and get your class to sign it with a kind thought.
Write a letter outlining how important she has been in your life. I’m sure that if she stayed one more year, she knows all of you very well as students and probably as people as well.
Make a list of all the crazy things that happened in your 4 years in her class. If you’ve got an artist in the class, try to get that person to draw some of these situations.
Get that artist to do caricatures of all of you, sign them and present it to her with a letter of thanks.
combine any of these
Have fun with this and she will cherish it forever.
buy her tickets to canada or france and maek it a big class present.
recondmend air canada and air france