You can’t imagine the conflicting feelings your teacher must be experiencing as he/she consider the end of his/her educational career. So plan a teacher retirement party to ease the transition of retirement. Be creative, and add intimate details to throw a party that will send off the honoree with good memories rather than sentimentality.
How to Plan the Teacher Retirement Party?
Plan a creative and successful teacher retirement party need to consider many things include date, venue, invitations, appropriate theme and decorations, meaningful entertainment ideas and more. While arranging a retirement party for teacher, keep in mind a few things:
- First, don’t invite too many people. Don’t make your retirement party a crowd as the personal touch is lost when too many people gather. Just the colleague and students.
- Don’t plan too many activities, students will want to talk to teacher.
- Remember it’s retirement party and not a birthday party. So let the atmosphere be serene and sophisticated rather than get over-enthusiastic.
Theme
What’s the theme of the special party? Retirement! Ok, but we need more detailed, such as name of the theme – flashback? It is self-explanatory. It is meant to take teacher to the days when they had started his/her journey as a teacher.
Decorations
The Appropriate decorations should be according to the unique theme. How to use right decorations ideas to make up the theme – flashback? balloons, banners and flowers are necessaries for every party, but you also need more creative, like decorate the room with teacher’s photos, mostly of his/her first teaching year, that is perfect if you can collect many photos of teacher, at least one class photo of each year!
Food
Prepare some teacher’s favorite food is thoughtful, if you don’t know the taste and interest of teacher, ask your parents and teacher’s colleague help you. Do not make or order too many food items, just 3-4 are enough.
Entertainment
Center your entertainment around flashback theme. Plan a music with tunes that can recall the beautiful old memories. You can ask some of the students to share some of their special memories about teacher, don’t forget invite teacher’s colleagues to do this to know more unfamiliar things about teacher.
Sentimental Gifts Ideas
Giving any personalized retirement gifts or mementos for teacher offers a tangible way to express your heartfelt gratitude and best wishes, and that will be the highlight of the unique teacher retirement party.
Include some sentimental elements in your party. Create a retirement memory book by pasting flashback themed images on a plain-covered scrapbook.
Using craft paint or permanent paint markers, write a title on the front of the album, such as “Retirement Memories” or “You Will Be Missed.”
Obtain a photo or memento from each students prior to the party, and arrange them in the album.
Or make a surprise for teacher that customize an exquisite crystal plaque engraved with his/her name, dates of service, and your earnest appreciation wording.
