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Misconduct allegations complicate work for male teachers, coaches
Allegations of sexual misconduct by coaches and teachers mess things up for guys like me. Such a case recently arose against a Temecula softball coach, who prosecutors charged with molesting four young girls. The coach, Alex Flores, has pleaded not guilty and is being held on bail of $1 million. Flores led a travel softball […]
Read MoreBook: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Role Modelling The Influence of Male Teachers
This book provides an illuminating account of teachers’ own reflections on their experiences of teaching in urban schools. It was conceived as a direct response to policy-related and media-generated concerns about male teacher shortage and offers a critique of the call for more male role models in elementary schools to address important issues regarding gender, […]
Read MoreMale Teachers in North Carolina
Chuck Gore retired from the Navy as a commander after 24 years, but he took his nautical love into his second-grade classroom at Carolina Beach Elementary School when he entered his next career as a teacher. Students are gunner’s mates, signalmen and quartermasters sailing on the U.S.S. Excel. “Welcome aboard” is the standard greeting for […]
Read MoreFormer coach influencing lives as special education teacher
Teachers at Spanish River Community High School in Boca Raton call Ray Berger the “gentle giant.” His former football players call him “coach.” A big man, Berger works with almost 30 special needs students, many of whom have severe physical disabilities. Now the school’s “crisis intervention” teacher, Berger, 50, is respected, not feared. “I wanted […]
Read MoreIncreasingly, male teachers found at head of elementary class
“Kids had issues with me being a strong figure. They’re used to hearing it from their moms or aunts.” Tyrone Johnson, above, a third-grade teacher at Ashley Elementary (Andy Cross, The Denver Post) Each weekday, students filing into Denver’s Ashley Elementary School come face to face with a relatively rare educational experience. They call it […]
Read MoreHiring Males Is School District Priority
Male teachers continue to be an area of need for Charles County and the state. The school system’s human resources department reported to the Charles County Board of Education on Tuesday that of the 170 new hires, 37, or 21.8 percent were men, and 132 or 78.2 percent were women. Sean McDonald, human resources specialist, […]
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