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Man discovers passion for education, finds next career
You never know where you’re going to find your next career. For Craven Community College student Cameron Bates, his discovery came when he began volunteering at a child-care center where his daughter was enrolled. It was there that the 35-year-old married father of three discovered a love for working with children and mentoring them. Now, […]
Read MoreRole as father prepared this teacher for the classroom
Josh Shively embraced the role of stay-at-home dad without flinching at gender stereotypes. Patience, drive and the desire to be a role model made him a good father. Eight years later, the same characteristics helped him pursue a new career – a job with more of an impact than the retail position he quit when […]
Read MoreMale Teacher
Remember your first male teacher? Peter Chan does. More so, he remembers the lack of one during his own grade-school years in the 1980s. “I think I would have related better,” said Chan, 32, who teaches fifth grade at Vancouver’s Harney Elementary School. For instance, he just “wasn’t into” his sixth-grade teacher, who tried to […]
Read MoreJon Hamm (TV Actor) Talks About The Lack Of Positive Male Role Models
Get ready to fall even more in love with Jon Hamm. Seriously. There are new levels of adoration for this man and we’re about to discover them together. Hamm was recently a speaker at the Rape Treatment Center benefit brunch in Beverly Hills where he spoke about his pre-Mad Men employment history — which we […]
Read MoreMale Call: Recruiting More Men to Teach Elementary School
Public schools are searching for a few good men — male teachers, that is. Men accounted for less than one-fourth of all teachers in 2006, according to statistics released recently by the National Education Association (NEA), and there is little indication of that figure changing anytime soon. Although education has historically been a predominantly female […]
Read MoreLow Number of Male Teachers Affects Youth
Education experts say that a lower salary and stereotypes are to blame for a shortage of male teachers across the Piedmont Triad. Bill Budusky is a Pre-Kindergarten teacher at Hunter Elementary School in Greensboro. Watch the video. Budusky is one of only six male teachers out of 75. The father of two said having male […]
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