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Men in the teaching profession in Georgia
“Mild” and “spicy” aren’t adjectives that Edgar Ray, a fourth-grade teacher at Bruce Elementary School, limits to descriptions of food. During a recent lesson on synonyms and antonyms, Ray used those words to explain to his students that words with similar meanings can express different ideas. In one example, he explained to students that “good” […]
Read MoreMale elementary school teachers in New England
Michael O’Dell didn’t have a male teacher until the seventh grade. He’s making sure his students can’t say the same thing. O’Dell, 40, began his career as a teacher Tuesday, hired over the summer as a new fourth-grade teacher at Bicentennial Elementary School in Nashua. As a male elementary school teacher, O’Dell knew coming in […]
Read MoreLake City man lives dream of being teacher
Rashad Myers said he discovered as a senior at Lake City High School that he wanted to become a teacher. He said his Chemistry II teacher was a role model to him and that he liked the idea of having a black male teacher. “Education is important and the key to success, no matter what […]
Read MoreNew report looks at best practices for enhancing the teaching & learning of minority boys in single-sex classrooms
Nipissing University, Schulich School of Education, tenured, full professor Dr. Douglas Gosse has released a groundbreaking new study that uncovers optimal teaching and learning approaches and strategies for minority boys, via the implementation of single-sex classrooms. Canadian boys, as in the USA and abroad, have greater literacy problems than girls. Boys also voice more disengagement […]
Read MoreMale educators in Grand Forks elementary classrooms
Early in his teaching career at Grand Forks’ Ben Franklin Elementary School, Harold Gustafson had a good student he described as “a little Pigpen,” named after the Peanuts character who was always followed by a trail of dust. The boy’s father kept urging him to clean his room, but the boy refused. One weekend, the […]
Read MoreOur schools need more male teachers
In recent years, education experts have converged on one big idea: Teachers matter. Studies show that years of good teaching can set a student on a good path, while years of bad teaching can do the opposite. Yet only a fraction of our teachers are the best and the brightest of their generation. According to […]
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