What to give a teacher for Teacher's Day instead of flowers and sweets? TOP-5 modern and inexpensive gifts for teachers that will be useful in distance learning mode
In a week, Ukrainian teachers will celebrate their professional holiday. For many teachers, this day will be held in quarantine mode: with the transition to the yellow zone, offline education in schools where 80% of the teaching staff is not vaccinated was canceled in Ukraine. However, this does not mean that there is no need to congratulate teachers. They are still doing their job, only remotely. If the format of the study is different, then the gifts must correspond to it. We have compiled a rating of not too expensive, but useful gadgets that will be useful for teachers during distance learning.
USB lamp for laptop (from 150 UAH)
A laptop lamp will save the teacher's eyesight / collage kolobok.ua / open sources
Not all teachers come to school to conduct online classes. Some are more comfortable and more comfortable work from home
. In this case, good lighting is very important, because during the broadcast in Zoom, the teacher should not "look out of the underground." Therefore, a flexible USB lamp for a laptop will be an actual gift. It is very compact, connects to a USB port (there are battery-powered options) and locks perfectly in the desired position. There are models in which you can change the lighting mode: from soft and dim (then the lamp can be used as night lamp) to a bright light in which it is quite possible to check the notebooks.Mini-board on a stand (from 250 UAH)
It will be convenient for the teacher to work on the mini blackboard from home / open sources
Many teachers (especially the old school) cannot quickly "switch" to the format of interactive lessons. Out of habit, they want to go up to the blackboard in order to “write down” the problem or formula with their own hands. It is very convenient to use a compact desktop board for teaching from home. With dimensions of 35 * 45 cm, it fits perfectly on the table and easily "goes" into the view of the laptop camera. Such boards are most often made double-sided: on one side you can write with chalk, and the other side is magnetic, and in addition, it is suitable for a marker.
Laptop microphone (from 130 UAH)
Microphone will help not to shout out students / collage kolobok.ua / open sources
During online lessons, it is very difficult for a teacher to keep the attention of students. At home, children feel more free, they make noise and shout down to each other. The noise is superimposed on the quality of communication, because of this, the teacher is often hard to hear. So he has to raise his voice almost more often on the remote than at school. An excellent solution in this case would be a laptop microphone. Like a USB lamp, it plugs into a USB port, so it doesn't take up much desk space. A flexible holder will allow the teacher to adjust the height and tilt of the microphone "to suit him."
External battery (from 250 UAH)
Situations vary, and sometimes your laptop runs out of battery. It's good if you can connect it to the network. And if the charge runs out in the midst of a lesson, and the cable simply does not reach the nearest outlet? In this case, a portable external battery or a Power Bank will come to the rescue. Even if it is not useful for a teacher for classes, in the modern world a power bank is an irreplaceable thing. Many people today buy two or even three of these devices, because phones, headphones and other gadgets usually run out of power at the most inopportune moment.
Glasses against blue light (from 300 UAH)
Computer glasses will protect the teacher's eyes from blue radiation / open sources
Modern teachers also spend a lot of time in front of the computer in the usual mode of study: they keep an electronic journal, select interactive teaching material on the Internet. With the transition to remote control, the time spent at the monitor doubles. Therefore, computer glasses will be a pleasant surprise for the teacher. The glasses in them are treated with a special coating that protects the eyes from flicker and from exposure to blue light. The choice of models is not limited today, but for a teacher it is worth buying a classic female or male model. Optimally, if in optics you will be given the opportunity to change glasses for another model (suddenly the teacher will not like your option).
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