Editorials

Are male teachers the answer?

Career & Education shares with you this week the thoughts of Vivienne Turnbull concerning the value of male teachers in the classroom and how Jamaica could, potentially, attract more men to help educate and mentor the island’s boys. Turnbull is an image and communications consultant. WHEN I attended high school and college, there was no […]

Men teaching in the news

Every day we see more and more stories about men teaching – the attention to this topic is hopeful and we believe an indication of the interest. Both the posting of the article to ABCNews.com and the Good Morning America segment generate more than 30,000 hits in one day to the MenTeach.org website! We’ve been […]

The energy of young male teachers

Where in the world do Men Change Diapers?

If you’re like many of those associated with MenTeach, you’ve probably surprised many different people in many situations with your “Men who change diapers change the world” bumperstickers.   Kitt Cox got T. Berry Brazelton, the famous pediatrician to pose with a bumper sticker. And Bryan Nelson gave one to Matt Lauer of the Today […]

Do you want to start your own male teacher training program?

Sometimes on quiet days (or when we want a distraction from all the work we have) we’ll do a search on the internet about male teachers, men teachers, or this time “male teacher training programs.” We found a very interesting program called: MATES – Male Teacher Support program, where else but Australia. The interesting thing about […]

The value of the male schoolteacher

PATRICK Cunningham taught my youngest son a decade ago in first and second grade at the Cambridgeport School in Cambridge. Now 59, he still teaches the same grades at the same school, one of the relatively few men in the nation working with children so young. In 27 years of preschool and early elementary teaching, […]