June, 2009

1) Do you want to volunteer to work with children?
2) Bureau of Labor Statistics data can be misleading
3) 15 male teachers in one primary school
4) Steve Shuman Award for the Support of Men in Early Education and Care
5) What's New in New Zealand
6) Stories about male teachers making a difference
7) Male actor heading to the classroom
8) Malaysian men don't rule in school
9) MenTeach Mentors needed in Minneapolis/St. Paul
10) Dr. Edgar Klugman talks about his 59 years in the early childhood profession

ABOUT MenTeach

[MenTeach: There has been a discussion about the article below on the ECEMen's List about whether the research about father's applies to male teachers? What do you think?]

Men Teachers
The course will explore current research and practice about male teachers including the status of men who teach, challenges facing men who teach, current models used to encourage and support men who teach, and resources for men who teach.

You will have an opportunity to read current research and interact via an online discussion board.

The childcare sector in Ireland has the lowest representation of male workers in Europe -- less than one per cent. In this female-dominated sector, many children in childcare have no contact with men between 8am and 5pm.

In a society that is increasingly concerned with equality issues, we need to look at men in childcare as a viable option:

Travel through rural America along country roads, and you will occasionally spot an old, dilapidated building near the road. The roof and walls are in poor repair, the windows are broken out, and the yard is overcome with weeds. This long-neglected rustic structure was the one-room school, once at the forefront of public education in Kansas.
K-State doctoral student Matthew Skillen brings to us the story of one of the last remaining one-room school teachers. Laurence Pacey of Miltonvale, Kansas has a rich history from the one-room school era of Kansas public education.