<p>Panhandlegal-<br>
As the mother of a new public school teacher, I like your sister’s approach.
Our son hopes he will be regarded someday as an outstanding teacher!</p>
<p>Our diplomas hang in our home office for our private delectation.</p>
<p>The diploma isn’t an official credential anyway; it’s the transcript that proves your worth to accrediting boards and employers.</p>
<p>I have always had my diplomas hanging in my office. I am an in-house lawyer, but we all tended to do that probably just to get them out of the house! </p>
<p>I like to look at diplomas and chat about where someone went to school. It’s just an interest of mine (probably why I am still on CC!).</p>
<p>I think that it is perfectly appropriate for teachers to display their diplomas as well as their teacher’s license. After all, we are all about promoting education. I am interested in my colleague’s credentials.</p>
<p>It’s funny seeing the views of parents on their diplomas 10-20+ years after getting them, yet when kids say they don’t want to go to graduation so few are understanding. ;)</p>
<p>I’m still fairly young and have my BS and MS framed in my bedroom at home since my parents like having them there, but once they decide to turn the room into something else I’ll proudly put them up somewhere where I’m living. My girlfriend also has her BS, MS, and PE license hanging in our apartment. At this point in our life it’s still a nice daily affirmation of all the hard work we’ve put in to get where we are.</p>
<p>I’ve never seen a diploma displayed other than in a doctor’s or lawyer’s office, and I’m not sure even then it matters. But at one of my D’s schools, the teachers didn’t disply their diplomas, they decorated their doors in their college colors, with penants, etc. It got interesting during the time surrounding the big football rivalry between the two state flagships. I always enjoyed seeing what the teachers liked to put on the doors.</p>
<p>I think that kind of thing makes a much bigger impression on the kids though, than the parents. I figure they all assume the teachers did actually graduate and have credentials.</p>
<p>jym, it seems that my iPad self-corrects to fish rather than Greek letters. My two finger touch-pad typing and “one eye distance, one eye close” contacts could also have been a factor.
Your comment was pretty funny!</p>
<p>We paid to have D1’s diploma framed. She’s never lived in a place where it made sense for her to display it. So it sits at our house, on the wall in my Momcave. I like looking at it…it cost us a little less than what we paid for our house 20 years ago. :eek: </p>
<p>That diploma came in handy this summer. D1 got a discount on her car insurance because she graduated from college. They needed proof of her graduation–I was able to send them a jpg of her diploma. I knew that degree would come in handy!</p>
<p>I have never seen any diplomas displaced in my school, but last year we were asked to give our UG school’s name to a fella so he could put its logo in frames. They are displayed over our classroom doors and really look very nice. The intention was that students would ask us about them, engendering interest in college, since it is not a real big thing where I work. I think it is working. I have enjoyed telling those who ask about my alma mater.</p>
<p>dragonmom, not sure which grade you teach. But I do think that it is a good thing to have out for students to see, and be able to ask questions about. My son graduated from a HS with a historically low college attendance rate. Mostly because most of their parents did not attend college, and many of their futures are running the family business. In this HS, as well as the middle school, they started an initiative where teachers all have the college they graduated from posted on the name plate outside their classroom door, and at least one thing in the classroom that mentions their college. Additionally, one of the “casual Fridays” each month was a college day. Teachers would wear t-shirts and other items to identify their school (or the local state college). I am not sure that it has or will increase the % of students that attend college at the school, but it does open up discussions with students and give them the opportunity to ask questions about college.</p>
<p>Wow. Should be displayed, not displaced in #32.</p>
<p>I have my diploma and a state certification (required for my position) on the wall of my office mixed in with favorite art pieces. They make for good conversation starters. Just last week, a visitor noticed the certification and we ended up discussing the requirements for certification and how he could earn them.</p>
<p>My daughter teaches in an inner city school where educators are encouraged to display diplomas as something for the students to aspire to. On her desk, she also keeps a small framed picture of herself and husband in their graduation gowns. She considers it an example, especially for the girls, that you can go to college and have a partner too.</p>
<p>My high school yearbook had two pages that were essentially a faculty and administration directory of what colleges they had attended, and what degrees they had earned. By the time my children arrived at high school, that practice had been abandoned, apparently.</p>
<p>The administration probably found that it created headaches for them when parents complained about the backgrounds and qualifications of the teachers.</p>
<p>As for displaying diplomas, ours are displayed in a room used as an office, where normally only family can see them. I think if I were a teacher, I’d probably not put mine up.</p>
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<p>This actually reminds me of a similar thing a lot of teachers did at my HS. They’d have students bring back a bumper sticker or something similar for the college they went to. It was really cool to see all the different places people went to over the years, and how not everyone stayed local.</p>
<p>I have only seen diplomas displayed in Physician’s offices. Never once in either a public or private school teacher’s classroom.</p>
<p>I am not sure it makes a difference. I think you should do whatever makes you feel good. A classroom is an environment that you the teacher create and it is up to you to create whatever feels comfortable to you and your students. I don’t think there is a correct answer at all here.</p>
<p>Good luck with your school year!</p>
<p>I’m a psychologist and I absolutely did have all 3 of my diplomas framed as well as my psychological license and displayed them in my office. I got the feeling it was expected.</p>
<p>My various diplomas & licenses and awards are all in folders and/or the hall closet. Don’t even know if H has his diploma ANYWHERE. Not sure if S’s diploma is in our home or his. D hopes to get hers this spring. Have only seen diplomas & the like at MD & JD offices, ever.</p>
<p>When I taught school, administrators often had their diplomas hanging in their offices, but teachers didn’t display their diplomas in their classrooms. This was true even in pretty status-conscious private schools, where my fancy, name-brand education surely helped me get hired.</p>
<p>(Come to think of it, more often than not, I didn’t even have a classroom of my own in which I could have hung my diplomas if I’d wanted to.)</p>
<p>At several schools where I’ve taught, there is one day a year where teachers are encouraged to wear a sweatshirt from their college. The questions it led to made me put my credentials on display, so that students would know every day how hard I had worked to get the credentials required to stand in front of them.</p>
<p>Put those diplomas and honors up. Be proud of them.</p>
<p>For some of us, our homes ARE our offices and we don’t have any clients or others come to it to view anything we have on display. When I practiced, did have the diplomas, etc. on display on the wall of my office in the firm. Now, am not sure anyone would care one way or another. If I were to “display” them in the bathroom, would worry about mold & mildew–which are common in our state & generally a problem with bathrooms anyway.</p>