2010
Do male teachers get a bad rap?
At our kids’ school, teacher assignment letters are more anticipated than Santa on Christmas day. As soon as they arrive, the moms start texting each other at breakneck speed. When one of my son’s friends learned he was assigned a male teacher, his parents were less than pleased. “(Our son) just doesn’t do well with […]
Read MoreWhere are all the male teachers?
Recent reports that there will be no more male teachers in 20 years is of grave concern. In the 60s when I joined the teaching profession, we were fired with a sense of commitment, dedication and passion, and it was a vocation, but not anymore. As pointed out by my fellow teachers, now many enter […]
Read MoreFree Tuition and Board for Trainee Male Kindergarten Teachers in China
Jiangsu Province is offering free courses at pre-school primary education normal schools for male students in efforts to even out the preponderance of women in kindergarten teaching posts. It is hoped that in three-to-five years’ time there will be at least one male teacher in each of the province’s kindergartens. “The gender imbalance among kindergarten […]
Read MoreMenTeach E-News – May 2010
MenTeach E-News May 2010 1) Men in your teacher preparation program: five strategies to recruit & retain them 2) Survey of male early childhood and elementary teachers (PK-5) 3) Literacy project offers scholarship money to put men in classrooms 4) 90% of Korean Teachers Back Quota for Male Teachers 5) Male teachers in the Philippines […]
Read MoreRecruiting and supporting women teachers – A global perspective
In many emergency situations, it is easier to recruit male teachers than women, and unless specific measures are taken, this can mean that schools are dominated by male teachers and administrators. Although male teachers may be very supportive of girls’ education, and may pose no specific barrier to girls’ enrollment in some contexts, in others, […]
Read MoreMr. Teacher – Why the teaching profession–and our students–need more male educators.
After 26 years teaching elementary school, Tom White, a third-grade teacher at Lynnwood Elementary School in Lynnwood, Washington, doesn’t give too much thought to the gender imbalance in the teacher’s lounge-even though he is one of only five male teachers. What are the differences? Not surprisingly, says White, he is assigned more students who might […]
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