[MenTeach] E-News January 2008

[Bryan G. Nelson]

MenTeach News
January 2008

1) How to protect your school from sexual harassment cases
2) Research on gender bias during student teaching experiences
3) Call for Proposals for the Working Forum Men In Early Childhood Education
4) Male elementary-education majors say they are needed minority
5) Join us to discuss Men and Boys in ECE.
6) Some Free Tuition Education Programs
7) More women in politics, more men in child care
8) How to protect your school from sexual harassment cases
9) Men's Stories - Not a job, a passion - Roger Neugebauer
10) Let us know what's going on in your part of the world

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1) How to protect your school from sexual harassment cases
Do you fear that your school or center will be hit with a sexual
harassment or sexual exploitation suit? There are was to prevent children
from being harmed, read a story about what a school superintendent did to
deal with this administrative nightmare: http://www.menteach.org/node/634/

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2) Research on gender bias during student teaching experiences
A doctoral student is doing research about student teaching experiences
about gender bias. He has questions about how to research this question.
Read his posting in the Forum area of MenTeach.org.
http://www.menteach.org/node/638

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3) Call for Proposals for the Working Forum Men In Early Childhood Education
For the first time in history there is a gathering of men and women from
all over the world in Hawaii, USA in May 2008. If you are interested in
presenting what you know about men teaching, consider submitting a
workshop proposal:
http://www.worldforumfoundation.org/wf/projects/men_ece/proposals.php

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4) Male elementary-education majors say they are needed minority
If you talk with male elementary education majors they recognize that they
are important to children. Read an article in the Orlando Sentinel written
by university students: http://www.menteach.org/node/641

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5) Join us to discuss Men and Boys in ECE.
The Schott Foundation continues to broaden its work (in addition to
providing a one million dollar grant) at recruiting more men to teaching
and sponsors a fellowship in Massachusetts. Read the posting:
http://www.menteach.org/node/656

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6) Some Free Tuition Education Programs
MenTeach occasionally gets e-mail notices about programs that offer
tuition free licensure. If you live in those cities and states consider
applying.
http://www.menteach.org/node/650

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7) More women in politics, more men in child care
Australian Workforce Participation Minister Sharman Stone says more than
half of Federal politicians should be women. And she says more men should
be working in child care. Read the news report:
http://www.menteach.org/node/640

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8) How to protect your school from sexual harassment cases
Arthur Brokop, a young substitute teacher, shut the windowless door of the
first-grade classroom he'd been called in to oversee. He dimmed the lights
while showing a video and, one by one, put three young girls on his lap so
he could fondle them through their clothing. Read how this could have been
prevented: http://www.menteach.org/node/634

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9) Men's Stories - Not a job, A passion - Roger Neugebauer
Roger is co-publisher of the magazine Child Care Information Exchange and
serves on the World Forum Foundation that is sponsoring the Men in Early
Childhood Education Working Forum. Read his story:
http://www.menteach.org/node/602

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10) Let us know what's going on in your part of the world
Send us a message about your work or a program in your community that is
helping recruit boys and men to teaching. Or send us a photo and tell us
your story. And of course, join the discussions in the Forums:
http://www.menteach.org/forum


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