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London Early Years – Men in Childcare Report
At London Early Years (LEYF), we have always been proud of our reputation for employing more male practitioners in our nurseries than is normally the case across the sector. We have also been a keen supporter of initiatives promoting the benefits of men in childcare, both in the UK and overseas. So we are particularly […]
Read MoreAcclaimed South African Author: Teaching not just for women
Acclaimed authour, JM Coetzee received an honorary doctorate from Wits University, in The Great Hall on the university campus. Coetzee, a double recipient of the Booker Prize and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, received a Doctor of Literature degree. Twenty years ago, if I had been standing on this platform addressing new […]
Read MoreWhy Black/Latino Male Teachers aren’t as Effective in the Classroom…Yet
There’s plenty of discussion about the need for more black/Latino males becoming teachers, capped by a recent discussion by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in which he promoted a program (TEACH) to help improve those numbers. In Jacksonville, FL, for instance, The Achieve Instill Inspire Foundation is looking to encourage more black males as […]
Read MoreFoundation pays education expenses to increase male black and Hispanic elementary teachers
Joshua Shubert sometimes thinks his third-grade teacher, Wayne Mitchell, is mean. Octavia Shubert, Joshua’s mother, disagrees. “No, he’s firm,” Shubert says of Mitchell. “And that’s what I like. Especially [for] a young black man with the way the world is today.” Mitchell, 45, in his fourth year teaching at George Washington Carver Elementary, is a […]
Read MoreMenTeach E-News – November 2012
MenTeach E-News November 2012 1) Male elementary school teachers in New England 2) Where men make up 97% of the teachers? 3) Men in Early Childhood – Colorado 4) More Male Teachers in Chinese Kindergarten 5) Why I became a teacher: I changed career to do something memorable 6) Increase in male trainee teachers in […]
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