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A man teaching Kindergarten in Wisconsin
Rocco Marchionda is a bit of an oddity. At a glance, his kindergarten classroom at Merrill Elementary School in Oshkosh looks like any other song-filled, activity-oriented room of 5- and 6-year olds. The unusual part is Marchionda himself: He’s a man. Teaching kindergarten. “Pretty much everyone I’ve ever worked with is female. I can’t imagine […]
Read MoreMale teacher bridges language gap
Brent Benkelman is unique among Kalispell’s public school teachers. For starters, he is the only male kindergarten teacher in Kalispell Public Schools. But Benkelman also has distinguished himself by learning enough Russian to communicate with students whose first language isn’t English. His first experience teaching a student whose first language was Russian happened two years […]
Read MoreA man in a female dominated profession in Vietnam
Tran Do Hoang Anh has been teaching preschool kids at Vanh Khuyen Kindergarten in Thu Duc District, HCMC for the last 7 years. Tran Do Hoang Anh changes the common perception that only women can be preschool teachers. Hoang Anh, who has been teaching preschool kids at Vanh Khuyen Kindergarten in Thu Duc District, HCMC […]
Read MoreResearch about male teachers wanted
A researcher, David Brody, is currently writing a book about male preschool teachers in different societies. He is looking for a male teacher in the Detroit or Ann Arbor and Portland, Oregon area. If you live there and would be interested in participating in this important study, or if you know of someone who fits […]
Read MoreAttracting More Men to Child Care – How to…and why you should
It’s a well known fact: the vast majority of people working in child care are females. Figures from the ABS show that at least 95 per cent of the working population of child care workers are female. Attracting men to the industry is difficult and complicated: there are issues surrounding parental suspicion of men and […]
Read MoreWanted: Black Male Teachers Across the Nation
It’s a nationwide problem – the shortage of Black male teachers. Only two percent of the nation’s nearly five million teachers are African American. “That’s one in 50 teachers. Something is wrong with that picture,” says U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. “As a country, we have a huge challenge to make sure many more […]
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