What do the children think? Read comments from children from Europe about their beliefs about having a male teacher.Boys can do better at school when their teachers are also male, according to a survey.
September, 2009
What do children think: Does it matter if your teacher is male?
What do the children think? Read comments from children from Europe about their beliefs about having a male teacher.Boys can do better at school when their teachers are also male, according to a survey.
Why don't men want to teach?
Primary schools have long been an almost entirely man-free zone, but research published last week suggests that secondary schools could soon be heading the same way. According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency 23.8% of those qualifying to become teachers in 2006-07 were men - a fall of 1.5% on the previous year and the lowest figure over the past five. Despite repeated government drives to recruit more male teachers, men just aren't that interested.
Needed: More black male teachers in Florida
The Ketterlinus Elementary first-graders are typical 6- and 7-year-olds.
A little giggly. A little antsy. And a lot chatty.
Their teacher is anything but typical in this St. Augustine school.
"You'd better tighten up," Curtis Lewis, 27, tells a couple of boys getting a little too rambunctious.
In a school that has only three male teachers, Lewis is the only one who is black.
That's not unique in St. Johns County, where less than 1 percent of the school system's 1,797 teachers are black males.
A little giggly. A little antsy. And a lot chatty.
Their teacher is anything but typical in this St. Augustine school.
"You'd better tighten up," Curtis Lewis, 27, tells a couple of boys getting a little too rambunctious.
In a school that has only three male teachers, Lewis is the only one who is black.
That's not unique in St. Johns County, where less than 1 percent of the school system's 1,797 teachers are black males.
Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment program is a great success!
[MenTeach: Mr. Holm has been working to recruit young men to work in his preschool through the Mayor's Summer Youth Program. Others are working to replicate the program in ever major city using Workforce funding that is available every summer.]Each year the City of Cambridge offers High School Students summer work in the public as well as the private sector of Cambridge.
Male Call: Black Male Teachers are a Missing Ingredient
William Alexander was all ears at his mother's home in Riverside during President Barack Obama's back-to-school message to kids Tuesday. The Oakland elementary school teacher who was in the area attending a conference knows the importance of encouraging children to stay in school. In 2004 he became the first in his family to go to college.MenTeach - E-News - September 2009
MenTeach E-News
September 2009
1) Order the new DVD about male teachers - Expect male involvement
2) Needed: More black male teachers in Florida
3) Correction: Additional movies about male teachers suggested by readers
4) What do children think: Does it matter if your teacher is male?
5) Mayor's Summer Youth Employment program is a great success!
6) Retired troops gain career in classrooms
7) Report from Men in Early Childhood Education in Austria
8) Student in Malaysia doing a Male Teacher Survey
September 2009
1) Order the new DVD about male teachers - Expect male involvement
2) Needed: More black male teachers in Florida
3) Correction: Additional movies about male teachers suggested by readers
4) What do children think: Does it matter if your teacher is male?
5) Mayor's Summer Youth Employment program is a great success!
6) Retired troops gain career in classrooms
7) Report from Men in Early Childhood Education in Austria
8) Student in Malaysia doing a Male Teacher Survey
Retired troops gain career in classrooms
The three years John Roberson spent as an Army drill sergeant were not enough to satisfy his itch to teach."I often thought, ‘Well, if I enjoy this, being an instructor, I might enjoy being a schoolteacher at some point in my life,'” the retired sergeant major said.
So after tours of duty in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the California-born Roberson came to Oklahoma for a second career.
Report from Men in Early Childhood Education in Austria
Lately, the field of Early Childhood Education (ECE) has been widely debated in Austria. Raising requirements for Early Childhood Educators to the tertiary level, making a Bache-lor’s degree mandatory, is one of the major issues. Another issue gaining a lot of attention is last year’s decision by several Austrian provinces to keep pre-school year free of charge. Student in Malaysia doing a Male Teacher Survey
I'm Ahmad from Malaysia. I'm student and majoring in Early Childhood Education. Now I'm working on my Project Paper: Male Teacher Involvement in ECE.
I'm pleased because I get a lot of information from the MenTeach.org website. It is really beneficial and helpful.