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MenTeach E-News – September 2018
MenTeach E-News September 2018 1) Scholarships for Minority Males in California 2) How Many Black Male Teachers Did You Have Growing Up? 3) Why more men should work in childcare in Australia 4) Teach for Armenia: Emerging Europe’s Young Empowerment Initiative of the Year 5) John Engel: Babysitter training: Where are the boys? 6) England: […]
Read MoreChinese Public schools face shortage of male teachers due to chronically low pay
As the new school semester begins in September, more and more Chinese primary and middle schools, as well as parents of students, are realizing that urban schools are increasingly facing a shortage of male teachers, and rural schools are facing an overall teacher shortage. “My child is now in the sixth grade in primary school… […]
Read MoreMale teachers return to the classroom as better pay, conditions attract surge in enrollments
After years of decline, men are finally getting back into primary teaching — lured by family-friendly hours, good salaries and the satisfaction of making a difference. Nowhere is their resurgence more apparent than at Melville Primary School in Perth’s southern suburbs. It has the highest ratio of male teachers to students of any public school […]
Read MoreFirst male special education teacher at Qatar Foundation’s Renad Academy
The first male special education teacher at Qatar Foundation’s Renad Academy has emphasised the importance of more men taking up the profession. Joseph Norton, lead teacher at Renad Academy, said that the required change in pattern would enable teachers to show students that male teachers can also be enthusiastic, compassionate and gentle. In 2016, Norton […]
Read MoreEngland: So you want to get more men into primary teaching?
Just 14 per cent of the nursery and primary teaching workforce in state-maintained schools in England is male, according to the Department for Education. Many small primary schools have no male teachers (or even any male staff) and so from a young age many children perceive primary teaching as exclusively female. As primary schools struggle […]
Read MoreEditorial: Honoring All Who Make a Difference
Summertime brings celebrations; many which pay tribute and honor to those who have gone before us. At the end of May, we celebrated Memorial Day; a day dedicated to the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. On July 4th we commemorated our freedom and on Labor Day we will honor […]
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