Editorials
Professionalism in Education: A Perspective from a Male Student Teacher
If you ask every teacher and staff member in an elementary school to give their definition of professionalism, chances are, every definition will be different. Many responses hit on some similarities to the definition, but in all reality the word holds a different meaning for everybody. So, how do you know if you are showing […]
Read MoreEditorial: A New Twist to Resolutions
Happy New Year! Time is flying by, apparent as the calendar turns to February. Hopefully, you are on target and feeling success in maintaining any New Year resolutions you set. Over the holidays, discussions with my four millennial children regarding New Year resolutions afforded me the opportunity to review my tradition of creating resolutions. I […]
Read MoreMenTeach has had millions of hits
MenTeach: A few readers have asked how much web traffic does our site have. MenTeach.org has been around since April 2002. We’ve had one revision of our site back starting February 2007. You’ll see below that we’ve had over 2.4 millions hits in the last two years. The software that tracks our site traffic screens […]
Read MoreEditorial: The List Maker
Every year around the Christmas holiday when I hear the words to this famous carol, “making a list, checking it twice” I smile to myself. You see, I consider myself the queen of lists because I carefully create and re-create lists daily. Are you a list maker? Did you know that there are many reasons […]
Read MoreStudents Of Color Increasing And Teachers Of Color Not – Here’s Why And What We Can Do About It
Promoting diversity to increase the number of Black male teachers, and Hispanic male teachers, in public schools is vital to improving the educational outcomes for boys and young men of color to put them on a path to success. For the first time in history, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Black, […]
Read MoreEditorial: With Gratitude for the Gifts
Gratitude is the quality of being thankful, showing appreciation for, and returning kindness. Having just celebrated Thanksgiving, it is impossible to negate the meaning of the holiday especially from the perspective of an educator. Sometimes, in the day-to-day happenings of being a teacher it is easy to become overwhelmed when negative aspects of teaching come […]
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