According to June 2018 New Yorker Strategist Magazine article by Maxine Builder, a survey of teachers says they want practical things for their classrooms as gifts. My guess is that they usually spend their own money for these types of items. “The best teacher gifts aren’t knickknacks or desk objects shaped like pencils or apples or chalkboards. The best gifts for teachers are practical and generally fall into one of two categories: things that can be used in the classroom to enhance students’ experiences or gifts that make a teacher’s already-difficult job a little nicer. You also don’t want to give something too extravagant or expensive, since, more often than not, that’s against school policies.

”We now have a gift for elementary Teachers, Presented in Video.”