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Men of learning in Australia
Thirteen is the lucky number for Berwick Primary School, where 13 of the school’s 40 staff members are male. Principal Kaye Seton said the male teachers, often rare in a Primary School setting, provided positive male role models for students. “This has not been a deliberate staffing decision but over the years the number of […]
Read More90% of Korean Teachers Back Quota for Male Teachers
Nearly 90 percent of elementary and secondary schoolteachers in a selective survey said schools should establish a quota for male teachers to correct the gender imbalance. The Korean Federation of Teachers’ Associations (KFTA) surveyed a total of 549 teachers; 433 males and 116 females across the nation between July 3 and 6. Most of the […]
Read MoreLiteracy project offers scholarship money to put men in classrooms
First-grade students’ reading skills would improve and high-poverty schools would employ more minority teachers with graduate degrees if a new partnership between the Charleston County School District and the College of Charleston works out the way officials say it will. The Literacy Intern Project is the latest in the school district’s efforts to focus on […]
Read MoreNumber of Black Male Teachers Belies Their Influence
Tynita Johnson had attended predominantly black schools in Prince George’s County for 10 years when she walked into Will Thomas’s AP government class last August and found something she had never seen. “I was kind of shocked,” said Tynita, 15, of Upper Marlboro. “I have never had a black male teacher before, except for P.E.” […]
Read MoreSurvey of male early childhood and elementary teachers (PK-5)
The attached is a letter distributed to numerous school districts in the nation (United States). We would like your help in getting the survey out to more men in teaching. I am enclosing a short survey and introduction letter for our study of male early and elementary school teachers. If you have previously taught those levels or […]
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