Your Autograph, Please!
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Want a great memento of your teaching years? Keep a guest book!
Have guest speakers, parents, students, and other classroom visitors sign the book. You never know who among your students will become famous! My neighbor taught a very young Robin Williams and has the autograph to prove it. Even if none of your students rise to celebrity status, a guest book is a great way to remember students and events in your classroom.
The article above was featured in the June 2011 edition of the Classroom Connection newsletter. Read more great tips and articles from that edition below:
A Summertime Listening Library
When A Picture Is Worth One Word
Tech-Savvy Teacher Tells How to Get Organized
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Make memories of your teaching career last with this idea by Brenda, a 6th Grade Teacher, from Smiths Grove, KY.
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Commented On June 5th, 2011 11:09 pm
I think this is a very good idea. We should also have our students sign it. So many of our students aspire to be famous one day and this would be a great item to have.
Commented On June 8th, 2011 3:53 pm
This would be a great way to help remember who was in your classroom and in what year as well. I might have to borrow this idea. Love it!
Commented On June 17th, 2011 10:11 pm
I’m going to do this next year. What a neat idea.
Commented On June 19th, 2011 9:42 pm
I tell my students all the time to remember me when they become famous and that I will never forget them, so I am going to start this idea with the 2011-2012 school year. What a wonderful idea!
Commented On June 23rd, 2011 6:28 pm
This is a great idea. I have class photos. At the retirement party of one of my own former teachers, she returned drawings, notes, gifts, etc. to individual students that she had kept over the years. I thought that was really neat.
LindaC
Commented On July 11th, 2011 7:46 am
I use to have guests sign a Guest Page and then all kids present signed. At the end of the year, I would photocopy the page for all of the kids to put in their Memory Books that we kept all year long. When I moved, I forgot to keep it going. Thanks for the reminder =o)
Commented On July 11th, 2011 4:22 pm
I love this idea!! One thing I do every year is tape my class picture in a scrapbook and I have the kids sign the page. It’s a keepsake to last forever.
Commented On July 12th, 2011 12:23 pm
I do a yearbook every year where the students have to write a blurb about themselves. Their picture is with it and the last day- we sign each other’s yearbooks. I have 13 yearbooks for 13/14 years I have taught!
Commented On August 2nd, 2011 10:41 pm
Next time I find some guest books, I’m going to buy several for new teacher gifts and share this idea.
Commented On August 21st, 2011 11:28 am
What an awesome idea! Do you recommend keeping a different guest book for each school year, or keeping one with as many years as possible in it?
Commented On August 21st, 2011 12:03 pm
I have my students put their handprint on my wall when they graduate, but I love this idea. Students could also write a memory.
Commented On January 29th, 2012 12:27 pm
This is a great idea.