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Male Teaching Ranks Dwindling: Survey
A survey found that eight out of ten Seoul-based elementary school teachers are women. It also reported that some elementary schools have no male teacher. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education said yesterday that the number of female teachers stood at 22,414 or 82.3 percent out of 27,219 elementary school teachers last year. By school, […]
Read MoreOntario Television panel discussion talking about men teachers
Watch the video panel discussion about men teaching and read the follow-up controversial comments at: Onatrio Televsion.
Read MoreThe 2006 HAEYC Men in Education Network (M.E.N.) Retreat
It had only been a day since our 2006 Hawaii Association for the Education of Young Children (HAEYC) Men in Education Network (M.E.N.) retreat in collaboration with MenTeach.org, when I realized my memory was failing. Not for what I could not recall, but for the remarkable wealth of images, feelings, stories, and ideas coursing through my mind. […]
Read More2nd Hawaiian Men Teachers on Retreat
The men of the Hawaii early childhood education (ECE) community are once again coming together for a retreat on the Island of Oahu – traditionally referred to as “the Gathering Place.” [You can read about the success of the last retreat.] The Hawaii Association for the Education of Young Children (HAEYC) Men in Education Network (M.E.N.) Interest […]
Read MoreThings Men Do All Over the World
I’ve been catching up on e-mails and had the insight that there are many events going on all over the world around men teaching. Back in March there was the Call Me Mister conference that reported about their first cohort of African-American teachers graduating. Don Piburn, from Hawaii is attending the World Forum in Montreal where he will be […]
Read MoreWelsh classrooms ‘need more men’
Boy pupils in schools in Wales can reach the age of 11 without ever being taught by a man, according to a report. The General Teaching Council for Wales said that unless more men are recruited into the profession, boys could be denied classroom male role models. It said only 26.9% of teachers in all […]
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