My daughter has been a 6th grade teacher for 7 years now. Currently she treasures the home-made ornaments from her students. (Mainly because she asked me to make some for her special teachers when she was that age.) She just put up her tree and has put them all on her tree. So how long has this teacher been teaching? I would say to stay away from coffee mugs, travel mugs because they have a lot on them. Wish list supplies are always greatly appreciated. One of the parents had an excess of office supplies because they were closing an office, so they donated legal sized photo copy paper, large envelopes, and various other items and the way the teachers reacted you would have thought it was Christmas morning.