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8th Annual ECMenz Summit in New Zealand – March 7 – 9, 2014
Men and women are warmly invited to attend the Summit of the Early Childhood Men in NZ Assn (ECMenz). Friday will consist of political and research presentations and panels. Saturday will include fun learning workshops and roundtables on various gender, initial teacher education and workforce topics. For people staying over Saturday night, Sunday morning will […]
Read MoreAlabama Voices: Someone missing from schools
Cuts in education funding have influenced a shift in our focal points regarding the quality of education in the public sector. While the No Child Left Behind Act implications are based upon that of every school in the nation accounting for 100 percent in terms of Adequate Yearly Progress, the achievement gap between majority and […]
Read MoreMen teaching in Ireland
The Irish News reported statistics earlier in the week illustrating how the decline in the number of male primary school teachers has continued in spite of initiatives aimed at increasing males into the profession (though the paper does not outline the nature of these employer-led efforts.) In the current academic year, just 1,307 of the […]
Read MoreTop male teachers at Erdiston College in Barbados praise programmes
Principal of Erdiston Teachers’ Training College, Barbara Parris is always happy when male teachers participate in the programmes offered by the College. She is even happier when they gain distinctions and top classes, which are year by year, female dominated. This Saturday, the College will have a graduating class of 243 teachers, out of that […]
Read MoreTeaching is one of the most important professions
A National Education Association (NEA) report indicates that there are 785,151 male teachers in public elementary and secondary schools across the nation compared to 2.4 million women. While middle school and high school may have brought a few more male teachers into the mix, the truth is, the teaching profession was and really still is, […]
Read MoreLack of Male Teachers Worries China
Members of the 13th Nanjing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) put forward a proposal calling for social attention to the issue that a lack of male teachers hinders the development of students on January 12. According to statistics in 2012, female teachers outnumber male […]
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