Reports

1) Malaysian Ministry to recruit more male teachers
2) Some education jobs pay women more
3) What do parents think about male teachers?
4) African-American male teachers are a missing ingredient
5) A good Kindergarten teacher is worth $320,000 a year
6) Where the Guys Aren't: Addressing the Lack of Gender Diversity in the Early Education Profession
7) No male teachers at nearly 100 primary schools
8) Council looking at ways to boost 'role models' for primary pupils
9) Department of Education Secretary Duncan wants more men teachers

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

MenTeach E-News
March 2010

1) Radio Interview: Fear of Men In Early Childhood Education
2) New Zealand Teacher calls for more men to join the profession
3) 50% rise in men applying to be primary teachers
4) Canada: Bridging daycare's gender divide
5) In search of black male teachers
6) Men wanted - because teaching isn't just women's work
7) Program aims to channel more black males into teaching
8) See a video: Primary schools seek male teachers
9) Men's Stories: From Japan to New Zealand

1) It's important to challenge ALL gender bias
2) More men turn hand to teaching
3) Role male teachers have in lives of children with absent fathers
4) Can bankers make the grade as teachers?
5) Fear and Anti-Male Discrimination in the Classroom
6) Teacher quit corporate job to make difference
7) More men teachers: Back to class for men in Australia
8) Simply Teaching - One man's teaching journey
9) Call for Papers: 'Male Teachers, Masculinities, and the Teaching Profession'
10) MenTeach on national New Zealand Television

I spent this last week attending a great conference in New Zealand coordinated by the ECE Men in NZ.

MenTeach E-News
January 2010

1) Teacher of Year blends lessons together
2) Reader's Comments about why so few male teachers
3) Coming soon! 4th Men in Early Childhood Education Summit 2010 in New Zealand
4) Career changers wanting to going into teaching
5) John Suur: A caring man to the rescue!
6) School is hiring male teachers
7) Florida College creates $300,000 minority teacher program
8) Things happening in Manitoba, Canada with men teaching
9) New Teaching Men site in Australia

1) Boys look to male teachers for guidance
2) Another man teaching even younger children in Vietnam
3) 4th Men in Early Childhood Education Summit 2010 in New Zealand
4) Would you hire a male nanny? [Correction]
5) Students doing research: Title IX and men in teaching
6) Can men really work with toddlers?
7) Men - please complete the survey and questionnaire
8) What Do Teachers Think about Men in the Lives of Children?
9) Ideas for Workshop?
10) Resources - Financial support - find money to go to be a teacher

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In California, we have been working to increase the participation of men in early care and education. The California Association for the Education of Young Children (CAEYC) has for several years now, had a committee on Men In Child Care. I am the current chair of this committee.

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

MenTeach E-News
August 2009

1) Public mixed on gender roles in jobs; 7% prefer male elementary school teachers
2) Why boys fail
3) Additional movies about male teachers suggested by readers
4) New places to order the new DVD about male teachers - Expect male involvement
5) Write your story for a new book
6) Hundreds of ties means teacher doesn't wear same one twice all school year
7) MenTeach.org has had millions of hits
8) The few, the beloved, the male elementary teachers
9) Male Student Needs Help: How To Win Respect?

1) First early educator nominated for Minnesota Teacher of the Year
2) First male teacher in Winnipeg, Manitoba to win MCCA Award
3) Do men's brains change working with children?
4) New DVD about male teachers - Expect male involvement
5) Online university courses about men teaching and boy-ready classrooms
6) A One man school room
7) Missing: male teachers & elementary school principals
8) Three per cent of Britain's nannies are male: A campaign to increase their number
9) Today's lesson: Courage - a soldier and a teacher

In 2007, we accepted 256 male teachers nationally, which is 36% of our total.
We are just beginning to track information on how many of our teachers go into the teaching profession, so unfortunately, we don't have those numbers right now.

Our institutional memory, so to speak, tells us that 72% of our teachers go on to teach professionally, but we don't have the hard data to back that up just yet.

We serve approximately 2,500 students, with a balanced ratio of boys to girls, so 1,250 boys nationally.

Congratulations to Patrick Romero, a teacher at Horizons for Homeless Children Edgerley Family Community Children's Center. He has received an award at the 8th Annual Early Childhood Educators Gala. His award was for "Relationships" in early childhood education- This is what they said in presentation-"Patrick is an exceptional and inspiring teacher who utilizes his skills and warmth to build strong relationships with children. He uses developmentally appropriate strategies that have helped children to not only feel valued in the classroom, but also in the community.

1) Watch a video from two years ago about the lack of male teachers in New Zealand
2) Read the President of ECNewZealand's perspective after two years of work
3) Turning trash into treasures - a man who recycles for children
4) What are the biggest obstacles you see a man facing when he begins to teach?
5) Is it worth it to substitute teach in schools to get experience?
6) Do states have reciprocity for teaching licenses?
7) Norway - Changing Gender Roles
8) New Role for the ece-men Listserv

In the beginning (before there was a MenTeach.org website) there was an ece-men listserv. A true listserv is an email program where you send an email to a central site and it gets distributes to everyone who has subscribed to this program.  Answers to this email also gets sent out to everyone on the subscription list, which stands now at about 90 email addresses.  The ece-men listserv was launched in January 2001 and has served the men and women who support men in early childhood education quite well since then.