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Recruiting and supporting women teachers – A global perspective
In many emergency situations, it is easier to recruit male teachers than women, and unless specific measures are taken, this can mean that schools are dominated by male teachers and administrators. Although male teachers may be very supportive of girls’ education, and may pose no specific barrier to girls’ enrollment in some contexts, in others, […]
Read MoreMr. Teacher – Why the teaching profession–and our students–need more male educators.
After 26 years teaching elementary school, Tom White, a third-grade teacher at Lynnwood Elementary School in Lynnwood, Washington, doesn’t give too much thought to the gender imbalance in the teacher’s lounge-even though he is one of only five male teachers. What are the differences? Not surprisingly, says White, he is assigned more students who might […]
Read MoreAlternative Teacher Certification Programs Report Success Recruiting Men
When the Houston Alternative Certification Programs for teacher certification were first introduced in 1987, they were met with a great deal of opposition. Not only were some higher education institutions upset by the expedited process of certifying teachers, but teachers themselves were disgruntled by all of the “newbies” who seemed to take an accelerated course […]
Read MoreLiteracy project offers scholarship money to put men in classrooms
First-grade students’ reading skills would improve and high-poverty schools would employ more minority teachers with graduate degrees if a new partnership between the Charleston County School District and the College of Charleston works out the way officials say it will. The Literacy Intern Project is the latest in the school district’s efforts to focus on […]
Read MoreNumber of Black Male Teachers Belies Their Influence
Tynita Johnson had attended predominantly black schools in Prince George’s County for 10 years when she walked into Will Thomas’s AP government class last August and found something she had never seen. “I was kind of shocked,” said Tynita, 15, of Upper Marlboro. “I have never had a black male teacher before, except for P.E.” […]
Read MoreNew Teachers Edged Out Of Job Market
As school teachers prepare to return to the classroom, many with new teaching degrees are having a hard time finding jobs. Andy Middlen graduated from Augustana College in May and now helps with the Sioux Falls School District’s Kids Inc. summer program. It’s a temporary fix for a problem that has no easy solution. “My […]
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