Editorials
Editorial – Ten years teaching a course in Male Involvement
Paul Proett has been teaching a college class about Male Involvement in early childhood for ten years at Canada College. That has to be some type of record! Canada College isn’t in Canada – it’s in Redwood, California, USA and he’s offered it in the Early Childhood Studies department. He has included topics about men teaching and […]
Read MoreWhat teachers make – A story being sent around the internet
The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life. One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with education. He argued, “What’s a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?” He reminded the other dinner guests what they say about teachers: Those […]
Read MoreRepeat after me: we need more men
I have been immobilised by flu, so my husband offered to pick up our daughter from nursery earlier last week. Isabella looked worried: ‘Ooooooooh, I don’t know if they allow men in our school,’ she said as she shook her head. I suddenly realised that both her (co-ed) nursery and the (co-ed) primary school it […]
Read MoreBoy, what a difference
Marks are up, misbehaving is down when girls aren’t in the classroom She was a kind-faced principal, on the verge of retirement and clearly loved kids. I was visiting her for a story about crumbling school buildings. We’d finished the tour of her school and were chatting on the bench outside her office, the same […]
Read MoreA Report about – A National Symposium – Men in the Lives of Young Children
MenTeach.org, Chattahoochee Technical College (CTC), National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) – Men in Education Network (M.E.N.) and the Child Care Information Exchange held A National Symposium – Men in the Lives of Young Children on Wednesday, November 9, 2006 as a pre-conference session at the annual NAEYC National Conference. The symposium featured developments on men in the lives of […]
Read MoreClassroom Distinctions – One man’s classroom experience
MenTeach: This opinion piece appeared in the New York Times. Tom Moore, a 10th-grade history teacher at a public school in the Bronx, is writing a book about his teaching experiences. IN the past year or so I have seen Matthew Perry drink 30 cartons of milk, Ted Danson explain the difference between a rook […]
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