Letters
I want to teach elementary school
Dear Mr. Nelson, I have just received my AA transfer degree from Edmonds Community College in the state of Washington (3.56 GPA) and on the 19th of this month I’ll be starting on a degree in elementary education at Western Washington University’s Woodring College of Education. I read the CNN article that described your organization […]
Read MoreSecond career in teaching
Dear MenTeach, I have just visited your website and I totally support your idea to recruit more men into teaching. I work in public health in elementary schools and see kindergarden teachers in action. It was strange to see at first but the male teachers I’ve seen have a different teaching style. They seem to […]
Read MoreThe man who became a school
I have read your website with great interest, having written a book [The Man Who Became a School, (2004)] about the career of a man who devoted his entire career to being a teacher and principal at a small, rural school in Southern Illinois. Children in rural schools are as at-risk as those in the inner […]
Read MoreChemical industry to teaching career
Back in 1970, while I was an undergraduate at MIT, a teacher from an elementary school in Arlington, MA called MIT and asked if someone could talk to her class about pollution. At that time, I was a freshman in a new experimental program called the Unified Science Studies Program conducted by the Educational Research […]
Read MoreSchools aren’t hiring men
I disagree with all the articles I have read and the State of Texas’ Education Board when they say school districts do not have enough men applying for elementary school positions. I think there are plenty of male applicants. Men generally wait till their later years before deciding to teach. My older brother is a […]
Read MoreMoon Walking with Michael Jackson
What does Michael Jackson have to do with Early Child Education and Childcare? One would hope nothing! Unfortunately there is a darker side to this comparison. Michael Jackson is another man accused of molesting children. There seems to be an underlying fear by many members of our society that any man in ECE is potentially […]
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