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Classrooms need more male teachers, charity says

England’s classrooms need more male teachers, an education charity says, as government figures show a continued gender gap in the profession. Department for Education statistics show 26% of teachers in England are men – accounting for 38% of secondary and 15% of primary school teachers. To mark World Teachers’ Day, the charity Teach First is […]

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Wanted: Cosla wants more men to work in nurseries across Scotland to solve staffing crisis

More men have been urged to work in nurseries to help address a chronic shortfall in the number of childcare staff across Scotland. An extra 18,000 new workers will be required by 2020 to meet a Scottish Government commitment to expand free childcare places, but not enough new members of staff are being trained to […]

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MenTeach E-News – September 2016

MenTeach E-News September 2016 1) What It’s Like Being A Male Teacher 2) NZ Police heads towards gender balance while the Ministry of Education holds on to sex-role stereotypes for early childhood education 3) Recent college graduate returns to classroom: Town welcomes fourth-grade teacher 4) UPDATED: Register Now! Northern California Men in Child Care Conference […]

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Education facing shortage of African American male teachers

Rodney McCloud is something of a rarity in the education profession. He’s an African American male educator who teaches a STEM-related class. McCloud teaches drafting at Carroll High School and is one of just a few African American male teachers in the system and the state. Nationwide, just two percent of all public school teachers […]

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Why we need more male teachers and more female principals

Classrooms are a microcosm of society. In our schools, children learn the stories they will tell themselves for the rest of their lives, stories formed from the material they have around them. What will today’s primary children tell themselves about gender? Men have been steadily disappearing from Irish classrooms since the 1970s. In 1961, nearly […]

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Free teacher training program for men labeled gender discrimination

Global Times A new teacher training program has been created for men in Fujian province, Beijing News reported on Sept. 26. The project was initiated last year by the Fujian Provincial Education Department, together with three other local departments and five teacher training universities. The purpose of the program is to ease the serious gender […]

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