Graduation gift for future teacher?? Help me out HS teachers!

[KarenAylwood]

My friend who was in my graduate program is finishing her Masters, and just defended her thesis yesterday. Since she's an hour or so away, and I started work on Monday, so I couldn't go- was going to try next week but timing is off and she's visiting her family in NC.

I have at least a week to figure things out.

For my defense she gave me a Job Hunting for Dummies book (because I was in the middle of trying to find a job and not having much success). She's going to be spending the summer teaching at a HS program at a college, and then in August/Sept starts teaching chemistry at a local high school.

What's a good gift?? I'm thinking of spending maybe $20 - what do highschool teachers need/want?? I have no idea where to start with this girl- she's really low maintenance so buying something to wear or other girly stuff wouldn't work. I'm thinking something functional.

Help me out teachers!!

 

[Crankyshank]

Not a teacher but my friend just got her masters in education and said the coolest small gift she got was a nice coffee mug with a gc to a local educational supply store, a laser pointer, and an assortment of red pens.

 

[disykat]

The gifts I particularly enjoyed when I graduated were a nice book bag and some assorted notepads - some teacher themed, some not. I used both those gifts regularly the first couple of years.

You also can't go wrong with a gift certificate to a bookstore - I'd do amazon.com because that's where I buy many of my teaching related books.

 

[MoniqueU]

I would say maybe a best buy gift card. She might need some stuff from there.