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MenTeach E-News – March 2010
MenTeach E-News March 2010 1) Radio Interview: Fear of Men In Early Childhood Education 2) New Zealand Teacher calls for more men to join the profession 3) 50% rise in men applying to be primary teachers 4) Canada: Bridging daycare’s gender divide 5) In search of black male teachers 6) Men wanted – because teaching […]
Read MoreFatherless boys have significantly higher feelings of self worth with male teacher
Paul Dawson, Oregon State System of Higher Education, Monmouth [MenTeach: Here is so early research from the 1970s showing that there is a positive effect having male teachers.] The research to be described includes two related investigations, one of which was a study of elementary school teachers’ perceptions of fatherless boys. The second study involved […]
Read MoreA Student Using Education Statistics
I have looked a the National Center for Education Statistics site that you suggested, the problem is that it has so many statistics and tables it is hard to navigate through to the specific information one is searching for. Although I could not find exactly what I was looking for I did find some extremely useful data. […]
Read MoreMenTeach – New England (Men in Education Network) honors James St. Clair
Jim St. Clair is being awarded the second Steve Shuman Award in support of Men in early education and care for his longtime commitment in the field of Early Education and Care. By his success and shear devotion to helping young children he has shown that men too can make a difference and has been […]
Read MoreIt’s elementary: Male teachers rare
When third-grade teacher Andrew Bean wanders by female colleagues who have stopped to chat about a co-worker’s pregnancy, he’ll joke, “How ’bout those Seahawks?” “You’ve got to have a sense of humor about it,” said Bean, the only male classroom teacher at Fairmount Park Elementary in West Seattle. In Seattle, about 20 percent of elementary […]
Read MoreSchools Employ Bouncers Instead of Teachers
Schools in the UK have started employing hired muscle in order to control rowdy classrooms across the country. A London teacher revealed at the annual conference of the National Union of Teachers that bouncers were being taken on as supervisory staff to instil discipline in children and oversee crowd control. The initiative comes just months […]
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