[MenTeach: Almost all of the information we provide is about recruiting and retaining male teachers. This article provides a global perspective about the need to recruit female teachers.]
June, 2010
Mr. Teacher - Why the teaching profession--and our students--need more male educators.
After 26 years teaching elementary school, Tom White, a third-grade teacher at Lynnwood Elementary School in Lynnwood, Washington, doesn't give too much thought to the gender imbalance in the teacher's lounge-even though he is one of only five male teachers. What are the differences? Not surprisingly, says White, he is assigned more students who might be in need of a male role model.MenTeach E-News - May 2010
MenTeach E-News
May 2010
1) Men in your teacher preparation program: five strategies to recruit & retain them
2) Survey of male early childhood and elementary teachers (PK-5)
3) Literacy project offers scholarship money to put men in classrooms
4) 90% of Korean Teachers Back Quota for Male Teachers
5) Male teachers in the Philippines
6) Married to a man teaching in early childhood
7) Male teacher sessions aim to cut severe shortage of positive male role models
8) Male teacher makes a difference in West Indies
May 2010
1) Men in your teacher preparation program: five strategies to recruit & retain them
2) Survey of male early childhood and elementary teachers (PK-5)
3) Literacy project offers scholarship money to put men in classrooms
4) 90% of Korean Teachers Back Quota for Male Teachers
5) Male teachers in the Philippines
6) Married to a man teaching in early childhood
7) Male teacher sessions aim to cut severe shortage of positive male role models
8) Male teacher makes a difference in West Indies
Free Tuition and Board for Trainee Male Kindergarten Teachers in China
Jiangsu Province is offering free courses at pre-school primary education normal schools for male students in efforts to even out the preponderance of women in kindergarten teaching posts. It is hoped that in three-to-five years' time there will be at least one male teacher in each of the province's kindergartens.
Where are all the male teachers?
Recent reports that there will be no more male teachers in 20 years is of grave concern. In the 60s when I joined the teaching profession, we were fired with a sense of commitment, dedication and passion, and it was a vocation, but not anymore. As pointed out by my fellow teachers, now many enter the teaching profession only when they cannot find other jobs, a sad reflection on a profession that was once revered.
Do male teachers get a bad rap?
At our kids' school, teacher assignment letters are more anticipated than Santa on Christmas day. As soon as they arrive, the moms start texting each other at breakneck speed. When one of my son's friends learned he was assigned a male teacher, his parents were less than pleased."(Our son) just doesn't do well with male teachers," said the mom.
Free childcare classes for men in the United Kingdom
When a ground-breaking bid to hire more male role models to teach Edinburgh's youngest children was launched, it was hailed a major success.
Now the organisation, Men In Childcare, wants to offer men in Aberdeen the same opportunity.
The group, which has the motto, "Men need women, women need men, children need both", is to run free classes at Aberdeen College from Tuesday, September 22.
Men as Child Care Providers
When you think of a child care professional, do you ever picture a man? Male teachers in Western Pennsylvania elementary classrooms
Sixteen kindergarteners sat cross-legged on a rag rug, singing songs about the days of the week and the months of the year.The classroom at Carnegie Elementary School in the Carlynton School District was furnished with the usual toys preferred by 5-year-olds -- trucks, blocks, a kitchen play-set, a miniature makeup table. There was a collection of books nearby, and a set of puzzles in cardboard boxes.
Call Me MISTER Creates More Black Male Teachers
Lenny Macklin made it to 10th grade before having a teacher who looked like him -- an African-American male. Gregory Georges graduated from high school without ever being taught by a black man.Only about 2 percent of teachers nationwide are African-American men. But experts say that needs to change if educators expect to reduce minority achievement gaps and dropout rates.