Editorials
Repeat after me: we need more men
I have been immobilised by flu, so my husband offered to pick up our daughter from nursery earlier last week. Isabella looked worried: ‘Ooooooooh, I don’t know if they allow men in our school,’ she said as she shook her head. I suddenly realised that both her (co-ed) nursery and the (co-ed) primary school it […]
Read MoreBoy, what a difference
Marks are up, misbehaving is down when girls aren’t in the classroom She was a kind-faced principal, on the verge of retirement and clearly loved kids. I was visiting her for a story about crumbling school buildings. We’d finished the tour of her school and were chatting on the bench outside her office, the same […]
Read MoreA Report about – A National Symposium – Men in the Lives of Young Children
MenTeach.org, Chattahoochee Technical College (CTC), National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) – Men in Education Network (M.E.N.) and the Child Care Information Exchange held A National Symposium – Men in the Lives of Young Children on Wednesday, November 9, 2006 as a pre-conference session at the annual NAEYC National Conference. The symposium featured developments on men in the lives of […]
Read MoreClassroom Distinctions – One man’s classroom experience
MenTeach: This opinion piece appeared in the New York Times. Tom Moore, a 10th-grade history teacher at a public school in the Bronx, is writing a book about his teaching experiences. IN the past year or so I have seen Matthew Perry drink 30 cartons of milk, Ted Danson explain the difference between a rook […]
Read MoreEditorial: Abuse of children
One of the findings of our national study showed that one of the three major reasons why men do not enter or remain as teachers is because of fear of accusation of abuse. We receive e-mails every year from men falsely accused and then ultimately acquitted for the accusation. The fact remains that parents and people close […]
Read MoreA Discussion About Men Teachers
There’s been a great discussion over at a weblog by Dr. Helen. Below is my comment in response to the discussions: What a great discussion! First, I want to thank Dr. Helen for starting this discussion. I work with a national non-profit called MenTeach. You can see our website about men teaching at MenTeach.org. People were asking about data about […]
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