Teacher Appreciation Week (the first full week in May) is a time to honor teachers and recognize the lasting contributions they make to our lives. Here at Mathnasium, we champion that cause and we want to send your teachers all of the appreciation they can stand!
We work alongside your students’ teachers throughout the year to fill in gaps and provide support for your students where it’s needed. This year and last we’ve been amazed by the resiliency we’ve seen from teachers as they’ve redesigned their lessons to fit virtual classrooms and have gone above and beyond to engage with their students.
We’re celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week at Mathnasium by decorating Teacher Appreciation cards, sharing stories about our favorite teachers, and working with our local schools to provide some gift baskets and other treats to the teachers who have gone above and beyond this year.
Everybody enjoys hearing that they’re appreciated, and a card or a note is a great way to share your appreciation so that it can be revisited and remembered throughout the year. Mathnasium students are able to decorate this Teacher Appreciation Coloring Page during their visit, or you can print one out and decorate it at home!
Download our Teacher Appreciation Coloring Page
This May we want to show our local teachers how much we appreciate them! Nominate you or your student’s favorite teacher and they could win a basket full of goodies from Mathnasium!
There are 3 ways to nominate a teacher for this prize:
Facebook:
✨ Visit our Facebook Page and find the Teacher Appreciation Contest post (pinned to the top of our feed)
✨ Take a picture of your student creating a Thank You Card for their favorite teacher
✨ Post that photo in the comments section of this post
✨ Make sure to include the name of the teacher and which school they teach at
Instagram:
✨ Take a photo of your student creating a Thank You Card for their favorite teacher
✨ Post that photo on Instagram and tag us @mathnasiumoftysons
✨ Make sure to include the name of the teacher and which school they teach at
✨ Ensure your privacy settings allow us to see the picture so we can count it as an entry
✨ Take a photo of your student creating a Thank You Card for their favorite teacher
✨ Email the photo to [email protected] along with written permission for us to share the photo on our social media pages!
✨ Make sure to include the name of the teacher and which school they teach at
Entries are being accepted during Teacher Appreciation Week, from May 3rd - 7th
The winner will be announced on our Facebook and Instagram pages on May 10th!
“Ms. Koehler and Ms. Beckett were my English teachers for senior year. There is no way I could mention one without the other. Both welcomed their students with open arms and created a classroom environment that no other teacher could. They worked wonderfully as a team to make education fun. Both of them taught me how to never give up and if I put my mind to it anything is possible. Ms. Koehler shared her love of chocolate bars to everyone. Ms. Beckett shared her love of experience and knowledge with everyone. To this day, I keep in touch with them both. I'm so grateful I had the opportunity to learn from them; they truly are the type of teachers you never forget.”
-Katie Allsopp, Center Director
“My favorite teacher is Dr. Jones. She was one of my many math professors in college at Old Dominion University and she taught Ordinary Differential Equations and Calculus 3. She is my favorite teacher because she was engaging in class and incredibly smart. I even got the opportunity to interview her for one of my teaching classes to learn about how math concepts can be understood differently between children and experts in the field. She is an inspiration for me and one of the many reasons why I love math!”
-Theresa Waggoner, Assistant Center Director
“My favorite teacher would be my 9th grade Algebra 2 teacher named Mrs. R. She was my favorite since she not only engaged us with her teaching and her amazingly terrible puns, but she also made sure to check in with me every so often in the halls throughout the rest of high school. Before high school, math wasn't my favorite subject ever, but after taking her class I grew to appreciate math much more and it became my favorite subject!”
-Rachael A., Instructor
“My favorite teacher was Mr. Lowder. It was third grade, and he was the best teacher I've ever had. Not only did he have snakes in the classroom that we got to take care of, we had fun and engaging projects that helped me learn things from cursive all the way to JFK. He always had a smile and a great attitude. He was willing to answer questions and able to help anyone.”
-Bella H., Instructor
“My Favorite teacher was William [a former Mathnasium Center Director] because he helped me learn everything there is to know about the Mathnasium way and how to teach and handle the kids who come into the center. He taught about calculus, functions, factoring, and geometry.”
-Nestor B., Instructor
“My favorite teacher was my 8th grade geometry teacher, Mr. Choi. I had spent the prior summer watching geometry videos online to try to teach myself because I was bored, and was expecting to spend the year slacking off because I already knew the material. Instead, the class ended up being very challenging and fun. Mr. Choi allowed me to help teach the class and help the other students, and this inspired my love of teaching. Without him, I wouldn’t have been inspired to apply for this job. It was the first math class that I took that truly challenged me, and the way of solving problems that I learned in that class continues to guide me to this day.”
-Teresa E., Instructor
