2015
Nonprofit trains students to stay in school, become teachers
In her 20 years as CEO of Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Teachers, Bettye H. Perkins has seen hundreds of ninth-graders return to their schools as teachers after completing the nonprofit’s mentorship and training program. The mission of the White Plains-based nonprofit is to fill the diversity gap in the teaching profession by training culturally diverse and […]
Read MoreMale teachers in Quebec schools
Statistics from Quebec’s education ministry show there are fewer male teachers than ever in our schools. The numbers obtained by the Journal de Montreal show close to 2000 men have left teaching over the past five years. Overall males represent 21.6 per cent of teachers in schools, five years ago it was 23.3 per cent. […]
Read MoreBrief letter about teaching for 17 years
I first discovered MenTeach while researching men in early childhood for an online ECE class I was taking. While scouring the internet for information, I came across an article entitled “Myths About Men Who Work with Young Children.” It became a part of a larger research project, and that project led me to finding MenTeach. […]
Read MoreOn Sale: Men Who Teach Young Children – An international perspective
Few men around the world work in daycare settings, nursery schools or kindergartens. Yet wherever they are found, men who are perceived to have crossed the gender boundary in their choice of profession are widely acclaimed as gifted educators and excellent caregivers. Policy makers who care about providing quality education for young children need to […]
Read MoreI’m so glad we hired a male au pair
My husband recently moved abroad with work, returning on average for a week every month. We joke that he’s a tourist in the family, but it’s not always funny. I ploughed through the first few months juggling being a full-time mum to our two sons – school runs, play dates and winter viruses – and […]
Read MoreRecruiting Male Teachers
Charlotte-Mecklenburg School (CMS) district is on a special assignment. The district wants to have at least 22 percent of its new teachers this year to be male. Currently out of about 9,000 CMS teachers, 20 percent are male. The national average is about 24 percent of teachers are men. CMS superintendent Ann Clark believes increasing […]
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