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Acclaimed South African Author: Teaching not just for women
Acclaimed authour, JM Coetzee received an honorary doctorate from Wits University, in The Great Hall on the university campus. Coetzee, a double recipient of the Booker Prize and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, received a Doctor of Literature degree. Twenty years ago, if I had been standing on this platform addressing new […]
Read MoreWhy Black/Latino Male Teachers aren’t as Effective in the Classroom…Yet
There’s plenty of discussion about the need for more black/Latino males becoming teachers, capped by a recent discussion by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in which he promoted a program (TEACH) to help improve those numbers. In Jacksonville, FL, for instance, The Achieve Instill Inspire Foundation is looking to encourage more black males as […]
Read MoreFoundation pays education expenses to increase male black and Hispanic elementary teachers
Joshua Shubert sometimes thinks his third-grade teacher, Wayne Mitchell, is mean. Octavia Shubert, Joshua’s mother, disagrees. “No, he’s firm,” Shubert says of Mitchell. “And that’s what I like. Especially [for] a young black man with the way the world is today.” Mitchell, 45, in his fourth year teaching at George Washington Carver Elementary, is a […]
Read MoreMenTeach E-News – November 2012
MenTeach E-News November 2012 1) Male elementary school teachers in New England 2) Where men make up 97% of the teachers? 3) Men in Early Childhood – Colorado 4) More Male Teachers in Chinese Kindergarten 5) Why I became a teacher: I changed career to do something memorable 6) Increase in male trainee teachers in […]
Read MoreMen needed more in childcare say women
Craig Patterson at St Michael’s Family Long Day Care is one of a rare breed, a man who works in childcare. He is just about to clock up seven years at the Baulkham Hills centre and 13 years in childcare in western Sydney. He is a hit with children, parents and staff alike. Juanita Winks […]
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