2020
‘Tackling racism in society means more black teachers’
I write this article from many perspectives – as a husband, a new father and a Christian. But also from one that in my teaching career has been relatively rare: that of a black, male teacher. Indeed, in my time in education, I can count the number of black, male teachers I have encountered on […]
Read MoreNew Call Me MISTER Scholarship
By The Charleston Chronicle & By Amy S. Mercer Dennis Wright says he never planned on being a teacher. It wasn’t until he was encouraged to enroll in the South Carolina Teacher Cadet program during his senior year of high school that his “eyes were opened” to a career in education. “I realized that I […]
Read MoreMenTeach E-News – May 2020
MenTeach E-News May 2020 MenTeach: COVID-19 has changed the way we interact, especially as teachers. How are you coping with the changes? Is your center or program still open? Send us an e-mail so we can share what is happening throughout the world. 1) Editorial: A Male Teaching in a Pandemic 2) Dundee Scotland equalities […]
Read MoreHow Male Teachers Can Empower Female Students
Glass ceilings are still aplenty in the workplace in 2020 USA. Some speculate that some young women are so affected by a systemic gender bias that favors men in school settings that they subconsciously play into it when they get to the adult workplace. Further, many homes are also very patriarchal, and that may be […]
Read MoreCompton Male Teachers of Color Network (CMToCN) May Virtual Summit
Compton Male Teachers of Color Network (CMToCN) May Virtual Summit. This will be our 2nd annual end-of-year meeting to share the excellent progress of our district-wide project. The CMToCN is a unique approach to building a profesional learning community that provides social emotional support and profesional development to male teachers and administrators of color in […]
Read MoreChinese male teachers face kindergarten conundrum
When Yu Zehong started teaching at a kindergarten in Beijing in 2018, some parents asked to transfer their children to other classes. The parents did not have a good impression of male teachers. Some were worried because of news reports about male staff members sexually assaulting children, while others thought a man would be too […]
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