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Early childhood education needs more male teachers in New Zealand
Dean Hodge comes to work with a smile on his face, every day. The Ascot Park resident has been a teacher at Adventure Kindergarten in Whitby for more than two years and has just finished his diploma in teaching with Te Rito Maioha/Early Childhood New Zealand. It is a relief to put the study behind […]
Read MoreIn Praise of the Dude Teaching at My Son’s Preschool
I turned to close the preschool gate the other day and looked back to see what my three-year-old son was up to. And this is what I saw: His teacher in a laughing jog, leading a pack of toddlers in a full sprint. A few weeks ago I saw this teacher sliding on the ice […]
Read MoreChina’s New Five-Year Plan: Be a Man
Two days before the temperature in my town dropped to -9°F, my dad asked me, as he tends to do at the coldest point in the winter, to join him on a backcountry ski trip to Mount Moosilauke. Moosilauke is in Benton, New Hampshire. It may not be hyperborean by the standards of Alert, Nunavut, […]
Read MoreMenTeach E-News – February 2016
MenTeach E-News February 2016 1) Update for Malaysian 2) Wanted in China: More male teachers 3) Jobs: Why more men should become primary school teachers 4) Dear MenTeach – How do I change careers to become a teacher? 5) Group on assignment to recruit and retain black male teachers 6) Black, Male Teachers: a Dwindling […]
Read MoreMale teachers outnumber females at New Zealand Hamilton’s Rhode Street School
Male teachers outnumber females at a Hamilton primary school, bucking a national trend which sees women dominate the profession. There are 10 male teachers at Hamilton’s Rhode Street School and six females. Rhode Street School is reversing the national trend in which women make up about 84 per cent of the primary teaching workforce. Teaching […]
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