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MenTeach E-News – October 2018
MenTeach E-News October 2018 1) Scholarships for Minority Males in California 2) Male teachers return to the classroom as better pay, conditions attract surge in enrollments 3) Alma Spikes Elementary in Pocahontas now has their first male elementary school teacher on staff 4) Gender and Power in the American Classroom 5) Can a white teacher […]
Read MoreTeacher’s Day: First and only male teacher at Xiaoxihu kindergarten in China
Guo Xinwang tells story for children at the Xiaoxihu kindergarten in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province, Sept. 6, 2018. Guo, born in 1993 and graduated from the Jiangsu Normal University, became the first and only male teacher of the Xiaoxihu kindergarten three years ago. There are 400 plus male teachers in Nanjing nowadays, […]
Read MoreEditorial: Who Do Others Say You Are?
Who are you to others? This question has often crossed my mind when I think about how I fit into this world. Currently, I am attending UW-Stout to pursue a career in Early Childhood Education. My small hometown consists of about 1,800 people. Consequently, I have experienced small class sizes that have made it easier […]
Read MoreThe few. The proud. The male elementary school teachers.
You young men out there … so you want to do something really tough and brave, something to change the world, something adventurous, something really different? Well, you could join the Marines, and you’d definitely do all of the above. But you could also do “all of the above” by becoming an elementary school teacher. […]
Read MoreCan a white teacher connect with black students?
Each school year, at least one male student shares with me a version of this story: While walking — sometimes to school, sometimes to or from work — the student is stopped by police. The police officer turns out the student’s pockets, empties his book bag if he has one, demands ID, sits him on […]
Read MoreGender and Power in the American Classroom
I am a diversity progressive who generally thinks that men have too much power. Because that is my worldview and because I am human, I am given to confirmation bias. In other words, I will look for cases that confirm my worldview – stories of men with too much power. But confirming your worldview is […]
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