Ten ready-made teacher appreciation poems

It is always better to write your own teacher appreciation poem. “What matters is trying”. Don’t worry if it doesn’t sound so “literary” as other poems you’ve heard. It has a higher value: it’s yours! But, if you need some inspiration, have a look at the poems below. If you decide to use one of them for your teacher appreciation work, make sure to change it in order to personalize the text.

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Why God Made teachers
When You Thought I Wasn’t Looking
Whose Child Is This?
Unity
A Teacher, One Hundred Years From Now
God Made Teachers…
Teachers
Please Teach Me

Ready-made poem to go with a teacher appreciation gift. 1
For teaching children lessons,
to help them as they grow,
Let this gift remind you,
You're the best teacher we know!
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Ready-made poem to go with a teacher appreciation gift. 2
I chose this special present because I wanted you to know,
That I'm grateful for your hard work in helping me to grow.
For your constant understanding and for always being there,
To tell me I can do it and to show me that you care!
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Ready-made teacher appreciation poems:
“WHY GOD MADE TEACHERS”
When God created teachers,
He gave us special friends
To help us understand His world
And truly comprehend
The beauty and the wonder
Of everything we see,
And become a better person
With each discovery.
When God created teachers,
He gave us special guides
To show us ways in which to grow
So we can all decide
How to live and how to do
What's right instead of wrong,
To lead us so that we can lead
And learn how to be strong.
Why God created teachers,
In His wisdom and His grace,
Was to help us learn to make our world
A better, wiser place.

Ready-made teacher appreciation poems:
“WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN’T LOOKING”
When you thought I wasn’t looking, you displayed my first report, and I wanted to do another.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, you fed a stray cat, and I thought it was good to be kind to animals.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, you gave me a sticker, and I knew that little things were special things.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, you put your arm around me, and I felt loved.
When you thought I wasn’t looking I saw tears come from your eyes, and I learned that sometimes things hurt--but that it’s all right to cry.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, you smiled, and it made me want to look that pretty too.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, you cared, and I wanted to be everything I could be.
When you thought I wasn’t looking--I looked...and wanted to say thanks for all those things you did when you thought I wasn’t looking.

Ready-made teacher appreciation poems:
“WHOSE CHILD IS THIS?”
"Whose child is this?" I asked one day
Seeing a little one out at play
"Mine", said the parent with a tender smile
"Mine to keep a little while
To bathe his hands and comb his hair
To tell him what he is to wear
To prepare him that he may always be good
And each day do the things he should"
"Whose child is this?" I asked again
As the door opened and someone came in
"Mine", said the teacher with the same tender smile
"Mine, to keep just for a little while
To teach him how to be gentle and kind
To train and direct his dear little mind
To help him live by every rule
And get the best he can from school"
"Whose child is this?" I ask once more
Just as the little one entered the door
"Ours" said the parent and the teacher as they smiled
And each took the hand of the little child
"Ours to love and train together
Ours this blessed task forever."

Ready-made teacher appreciation poems:
“UNITY”
I dreamed I stood in a studio
And watched two sculptors there,
The clay they used was a young child’s mind
And they fashioned it with care.
One was a teacher:
the tools she used were books and music and art;
One was a parent
With a guiding hand and gentle loving heart.
And when at last their work was done,
They were proud of what they had wrought.
For the things they had worked into the child
Could never be sold or bought!
And each agreed she would have failed
if she had worked alone.
For behind the parent stood the school,
and behind the teacher stood the home!

Ready-made teacher appreciation poems:
“A TEACHER, ONE HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW”
One Hundred Years from now
One Hundred Years from now
It will not matter
what kind of car I drove,
What kind of house I lived in,
how much money was in my bank account
nor what my clothes looked like.
But the world may be a better place because
I was important in the life of a child.

Ready-made teacher appreciation poems:
“GOD MADE TEACHERS…”
God understood our thirst for
knowledge, and our need to be led
by someone wiser;
He needed a heart of compassion,
of encouragement, and patience;
Someone who would accept
the challenge regardless of the
opposition;
Someone who could see potential
and believe in the best in others . . .
So He made Teachers.

Ready-made teacher appreciation poems:
“TEACHERS”
Teachers
Paint their minds
and guide their thoughts
Share their achievements
and advise their faults.
Inspire a Love
of knowledge and truth
As you light the path
Which leads our youth.
For our future brightens
with each lesson you teach
Each smile you lengthen
Each goal you help reach.
For the dawn of each poet
each philosopher and king
Begins with a Teacher
And the wisdom they bring.

Ready-made teacher appreciation poems:
“PLEASE TEACH ME”
Please teach me everything I’ll need,
Teach me to calculate and speak,
Teach me to stop being so weak:
Teach me to think and write and read.
‘Cause there isn’t much I’ll learn alone,
and my mind is hungry for your food,
the food for thought that makes us good
and without which we’re dry as stone.
Teach me to be just like yourself,
The person I so much admire,
The one whose intellectual fire
I wish I’ll have one day myself.
Take a seat and start to teach,
Let me thus the wonders see
Of this world where I will be
A bit better thanks to each
Of the teachers that I had,
and thanks to yourself, the one
who’s made me sure that I can,
that in fact, I’m not that bad
as a student. I’ll succeed.
You’re the one who made me start
To realize that it’s an art
To develop the great seed
That you planted in my young brain.
I’ll water that seed all the time
With your great teaching, and with time
You’ll see your efforts were not in vain.