2013
Do you have a Men in Early Education Group in the United States?
We are preparing for a presentation at the NAEYC conference in November: Men Belong: developing networking opportunities for male teachers to promote recruitment and retention Friday, Nov. 22, 2013 8:00 AM Our goal is to highlight the value of networking, camaraderie and support for men in ECE, as well as to provide suggestions for starting […]
Read MoreMenTeach E-News – October 2013
MenTeach E-News October 2013 1) German government campaigns for more male kindergarten teachers 2) Hiring Males Is School District Priority 3) Male Kindergarten Teacher to Principal in China 4) Increasingly, male teachers found at head of elementary class 5) Research: Turkish Female Preschool Teachers’ Attitude toward Male Preschool Teachers While Hiring Job 6) New Zealand […]
Read MoreNational USA Conference Meeting in Washington DC
Awards Celebration for Men and Others This is a fun event to celebrate you! Join us in celebrating the different identities that make up our organization. The Celebration of Diversity mission is to build more visibility, support, membership and leadership roles for the groups they represent both within the organization and the ECE field. These […]
Read MoreMen Teaching in Montessori Programs
A little background: I live in a small city (35,000) in North Central Washington called Wenatchee. At present, Wenatchee has two Montessori programs, each program offers a 3-6 yrs. of age program of up to 30 students. One program doesn’t accept interns, while the other program does. I interned at the later program, but it […]
Read MoreEstonian National Strategy Aims to Increase Share of Male Teachers to 25%
One of the goals of the Ministry of Education’s newly-drafted lifelong learning strategy for 2014-2020 is to increase the share of young teachers and male teachers, uudised.err.ee reported. In 2012, 85.7 percent of teachers were women, in one example of the traditional gender gap that appears to be more strongly entrenched in Estonia compared with […]
Read MoreFormer coach influencing lives as special education teacher
Teachers at Spanish River Community High School in Boca Raton call Ray Berger the “gentle giant.” His former football players call him “coach.” A big man, Berger works with almost 30 special needs students, many of whom have severe physical disabilities. Now the school’s “crisis intervention” teacher, Berger, 50, is respected, not feared. “I wanted […]
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