2007
Male Teachers in Primary – An online video from the United Kingdom
This is a link to an video about Male Teachers – Careers in Primary Education. It was produced in the United Kingdom to promote male teachers. It’s about 15 minutes long and an interesting video.
Read MoreLanguage nests in Hawaii have high male involvement
The Aha Punanaleo Hawaiian language-nest early childhood programs are modeled after he Kohanga Reo Maori “language-nest” programs in New Zealand also have similar numbers of male staff in their early childhood programs and offer another exemplary model of male involvement in early childhood education (ECE). In the Hawaiian language-nest early childhood programs I frequent, there […]
Read MoreHow to advertise to recruit male teachers for early education?
Since returning from the World Forum on Early Care and Education in Malaysia, I have been busy trying to get some relevant statistics regarding men in ECE here in Manitoba. Thanks to Kathy Reid, the Director of the Manitoba Child Care Program, here are the latest known figures as of June 2007. 172 (untrained) Child Care […]
Read MoreAre women more tolerant than men?
Since the NBC Nightly News Report Wanted: A Few Good Men, on October 1, 2007 about male teachers, we have had more than 100,000 hits to the MenTeach website. The most satisfying part of working with MenTeach is reading all the comments. Many of them write about their frustrations with the system. You can read one of many interesting posting in […]
Read MoreBay Area Schools Try To Lure Male Teachers
The National Education Association says it needs a few good men to become teachers. The number of male public school teachers hit a record 40-year low in 2005. They represent only about fourth of the total number of teachers. Gilroy public schools have about 516 teachers — of that number only 132 are men. Gilroy […]
Read MoreFrustration with not finding teaching jobs
Since the NBC Nightly News report and the Newsweek article there’s been a flurry of messages posted to the Forum. Some veteran teachers share that they are unable to get jobs. Each of their stories is different but several feel that they are being discriminated against and not even getting an interview. Some are saying […]
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