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Figures reveal only one in four Midland teachers are male
Will doesn’t sit at his desk, he prefers sitting on it. His teacher lets him. She knows that chastising the teenager will only lead to more disruption. And besides, he is at least taking part in the lesson. In another classroom, Joel and Liam have gone missing after slipping out of school to buy cigarettes. […]
Read MoreA few good men
Mario Cornejo knows how to juggle. He spends a recent afternoon wrapping a green paper sombrero together with tape for 4-year-old Anthony Moreno. He gently pulls aside Edy Solares to remind him how to handle scissors while walking. He sings and dances to his ABC’s while two dozen preschoolers at William Anderson Elementary School in […]
Read MoreIt’s elementary: Male teachers rare – Primary school is still mainly a woman’s world
When third-grade teacher Andrew Bean wanders by female colleagues who have stopped to chat about a co-worker’s pregnancy, he’ll joke, “How ’bout those Seahawks?” “You’ve got to have a sense of humor about it,” said Bean, the only male classroom teacher at Fairmount Park Elementary in West Seattle. He doesn’t really mind being a man […]
Read MoreStudying boys’ education policies in Australia
The area of boys’ education always has been of interest to Marcus Weaver-Hightower, a former high school teacher and current UND assistant professor. Weaver-Hightower, who is in the department of Education Foundation and Research at UND, was able to take that interest and a Fulbright Scholarship and go to Australia to study the process of […]
Read MoreMen still rare in Vail Valley elementary classrooms
Educators would like to see more strong male role models teaching younger children. Students walk into Mark Cavaliero’s fifth grade class more stoked than usual on the first day of school. It’s not Cavaliero’s reputation as a wonderful teacher at Brush Creek Elementary that has them excited — it’s his gender. These kids are immediately […]
Read MorePrimary school teaching is for women, more men needed
The number of male teachers in primary schools has plummeted by more than 300 in four years, as classrooms become even more female-dominated. In 2003, 5207 men were teaching in government primary schools – almost 22 per cent of teachers – but by last year their numbers had dropped to 4893 and were threatening to […]
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