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It’s like having four hundred grandkids
I am a retired Federal analyst. I retired at 55 with 32.5 years service (counting an Army stint). When I mentioned to a teacher friend/golfing buddy that I needed something to do, he suggested teaching school. Not wanting to work full time, I applied for a substitute teacher position and was hired. As a sub, […]
Read MoreEvery Head Start required to indicate male involvement
Every Head Start program will now need to pay attention to including books and posters of men as nurturers as they design their classroom environments. We will now be represented as posters and books in over 50,000 classrooms. The first team of monitors goes out on 10/26/08. The citation (1304.21 [a][3][i][E] is a Congressionally mandated […]
Read MoreMy son had an amazing experience teaching
My son, as he has told me, had an amazing experience working with children over the summer at the Daycare. The children anticipated his arrival on the days he worked. I had never seen the educators have so much fun and be so involved in “rough play” as when he was there. One educator who […]
Read MoreMen teaching in the news
Every day we see more and more stories about men teaching – the attention to this topic is hopeful and we believe an indication of the interest. Both the posting of the article to ABCNews.com and the Good Morning America segment generate more than 30,000 hits in one day to the MenTeach.org website! We’ve been […]
Read MoreBoys want male teachers
Jack Kammer, who created The Center for Men and Boys in Social Policy forwarded a new study that comes from the Maine Boys Network has come out with The Gender Divide in Academic Achievement (2008) that interviewed boys about their attitude about schools. In one part boys said what type of teachers they want: “Just over one-third of the groups discussed […]
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