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Report: Male teachers now an ‘endangered species’
Male pre-kindergarten and early education teachers are almost as rare as komodo dragons, and they’re getting rarer, according to recent findings and recommendations released by the Community Advocates for Young Learners (CAYL) Institute. The number of men working in education has reached its lowest point in the past 40 years, the Cambridge-based organization found. The […]
Read MoreTeachers Make a Difference: A Male Student’s Journey
Derrick Vestal doesn’t mind being the only male in his Early Childhood Education classes at Cleveland State. In fact, he could not be more certain he made the right decision on his choice of a major. The Niota native said he has known since he was in seventh grade that he wanted to be a […]
Read MoreObama’s win could have effects within classroom
Like so many people throughout Atlanta, I was awed by the celebration over Barack Obama‘s victory in the presidential election. I witnessed another poignant victory the next day, when I visited a high school history class in the southwest part of the city. The teacher played portions of Obama’s acceptance speech and asked students for their […]
Read MoreHunt is on for more men to lead classrooms
If it didn’t run afoul of employment laws, principal Thomas DeVito would consider taking out the following newspaper advertisement: “Wanted: Male teachers.” At his Ferryway School, where boys slightly outnumber girls, male teachers are a rare species, presiding over only four of the 35 classrooms. “The district has a job fair every year, but […]
Read MoreEvery Head Start required to indicate male involvement
Every Head Start program will now need to pay attention to including books and posters of men as nurturers as they design their classroom environments. We will now be represented as posters and books in over 50,000 classrooms. The first team of monitors goes out on 10/26/08. The citation (1304.21 [a][3][i][E] is a Congressionally mandated […]
Read MoreProgram staff should represent communities served
Women are the majority of the early care and education workforce. Recent Massachusetts workforce development policy recommendations for the early childhood field suggest that program staff reflect the diverse composition of communities served, yet men comprise less than 6% of that workforce. (Such data is not currently tracked in the Commonwealth, but nationally they constitute […]
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