2014
Report: Male Educators Convene Summit in Maryland
On a frigid Saturday morning recently in Prince George’s County there was a gathering of a rare species in public schools: Male teachers. And while there were less than 100 people in Charles Herbert Flowers High School’s cavernous auditorium in Springdale, the meeting –dubbed The First Annual Male Educator Summit: Envisioning the Future of Prince […]
Read MoreMore male teachers solution to issues?
The question of whether more male teachers in city schools would help reduce disciplinary problems was raised at Friday’s Danville School Board work session, where board member Philip Campbell addressed the significant gap between male and female teachers. According to Juliet Jennings, assistant superintendent for human resources, Danville Public Schools currently employs 515 teachers. Of […]
Read MoreMaryland schools hope to recruit more male teachers
When Albert Lewis attended middle school in Prince George’s County in the late 1990s, he was shocked to walk into his eighth-grade history class and find a black man sitting behind the teacher’s desk. Nathaniel Laney’s presence was a first for Lewis, who is now a teacher himself. Until then, he had never seen a […]
Read MoreThe Co-operative Childcare has launched a campaign to boost the number of male nursery workers in the UK.
It is planning to lead the way in eradicating gender stereotypes about childcare practitioners by promising to increase its own male workforce to 10 per cent, which is well above the national average. Nationally only two per cent of all childcare practitioners are men. The Co-operative Childcare, which has 50 nurseries across the UK, has […]
Read MoreWhere Are the Black Male Teachers?
Often, particularly in urban schools and districts, someone asks: “Where are the black male teachers?” Statements affirming the need for more black male teachers are commonplace. As an experienced black educator and former assistant principal, I have heard assertions that more must be done to increase the number of black educators in our schools. I […]
Read MoreSouth Africa Research: Abuse perceptions alienating male teachers
Male teachers are being alienated from working in the country’s primary schools, largely by the societal stigma that portrays them as paedophiles, according to new research. Nadine Petersen, a professor at the University of Johannesburg’s (UJ) department of childhood education, found in her research that there was an “assumption that male teachers are inherently not […]
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