2011
Student Perspective: Benefits to being a man in a female-dominated teaching position
Perhaps those who are surprised think it strange for a man to be going into teaching young children. That is valid, as there are not many male teachers. But the idea that men are not as suited for teaching as women is a cop-out. I find this notion similar to the expectation that female doctors […]
Read MoreJon Hamm (TV Actor) Talks About The Lack Of Positive Male Role Models
Get ready to fall even more in love with Jon Hamm. Seriously. There are new levels of adoration for this man and we’re about to discover them together. Hamm was recently a speaker at the Rape Treatment Center benefit brunch in Beverly Hills where he spoke about his pre-Mad Men employment history — which we […]
Read MoreMale Call: Recruiting More Men to Teach Elementary School
Public schools are searching for a few good men — male teachers, that is. Men accounted for less than one-fourth of all teachers in 2006, according to statistics released recently by the National Education Association (NEA), and there is little indication of that figure changing anytime soon. Although education has historically been a predominantly female […]
Read MoreCall for men to teach, become role models
They are the minority in every staff room but are highly in demand. Male teachers make up just one-fifth of the teaching population in Victorian state schools. In the Grampians region, there are 700 male teachers and 1328 female teachers in state schools. For the Catholic diocese of Ballarat, there are 934 female teachers and […]
Read MoreLow Number of Male Teachers Affects Youth
Education experts say that a lower salary and stereotypes are to blame for a shortage of male teachers across the Piedmont Triad. Bill Budusky is a Pre-Kindergarten teacher at Hunter Elementary School in Greensboro. Watch the video. Budusky is one of only six male teachers out of 75. The father of two said having male […]
Read MoreSeeking more male teachers in Barbados
. . . The whining schoolboy with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school. – William Shakespeare There are just not enough male schoolteachers, says Captain Errol Brathwaite. And it won’t be the first time the utterance has been made by an educator. The new principal of Ellerslie Secondary School […]
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