Letters
Student in Malaysia doing a Male Teacher Survey
I’m Ahmad from Malaysia. I’m student and majoring in Early Childhood Education. Now I’m working on my Project Paper: Male Teacher Involvement in ECE. I’m pleased because I get a lot of information from the MenTeach.org website. It is really beneficial and helpful. The reason why choose this topic is to promote and increase the […]
Read MoreMale Student Needs Help: How To Win Respect?
Hello! I’m a male going into Elementary Education! I had begun my student teaching last fall and had a very bad experience with a college evaluator who was very critical and unsupportive of my work. My evaluator treated me unfairly it seemed compared to the rest of the female student teachers whom she was in […]
Read MoreWrite your story for a new book
TO: Male Educators FROM: Dr. Sheldon Woods, Associate Professor, Northern Illinois University Dr. Lemuel W. Watson, Professor and Dean of Education, Northern Illinois University DATE: June 5, 2009 DEADLINE: September 15, 2009 SUBJECT: Invitation to contribute a Chapter to a Monograph about Men in the Lives of Children We are inviting you to contribute a […]
Read MoreAdditional movies about male teachers
I would like to add “Good Will Hunting” (1998) and “Finding Forrester” (2001) to your list of films portraying male teachers as role models. Perhaps a tad on the unorthodox side, both of these films deal with adolescents/young men ‘in trouble’ who happen to stumble across older males, also ‘in trouble’, who take on an […]
Read MoreFalse allegation
[MenTeach: We receive letters from people and unfortunately can be common. Do you have advice?] I have a friend of a friend who has a son (25 years old and recently married) who is a day care teacher and has been wrongly accused of something two years after the event. This supposedly happened to a […]
Read MoreAre men hired as administrators?
I am a male teacher and I just want to thank you for your web site. It is nice to see. I do have my administrators license and the last interview I went on, it seemed like I had the job but the last comment made to me… (in a “off the record” kind of […]
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