It's elementary: Male teachers rare - The Diigo Meta page

• 25 Nov 07
  

  airbeagle

  education elementary school teach teaching

  • He doesn't really mind being a man in a profession dominated by women -- but he's a bit sensitive when anyone refers to his job or his classroom as "cute."

    • And sometimes they don't think your classroom is "cute" enough.
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  • The small number of male teachers, especially at the elementary school level, "is a problem in the same way we don't have enough minority teachers for kids to connect with," said Jeanne Harmon, executive director of the non-profit Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession.

     

    "It's a big problem when kids don't see themselves reflected in the teaching staff."

    • They say this, but when it comes time to hire, districts usually pick the 20-something female for K-5 jobs.
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  • At one of his first jobs in New York, male teachers were expected to keep the door to their classrooms open at all times -- an unwritten policy that didn't apply to female teachers.

    • And there it is, buried deep in the story, the unsaid, the unacknowledged elephant in the room.
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• 05 Mar 07
  

  Sarah Puglisi

  It's elementary: Male teachers rare Primary school is still mainly a woman's world

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• 19 Dec 05
  

  E Kissling

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  airbeagle on 2007-11-25
  And sometimes they don't think your classroom is "cute" enough.
• 
  airbeagle on 2007-11-25
  They say this, but when it comes time to hire, districts usually pick the 20-something female for K-5 jobs.
• 
  airbeagle on 2007-11-25
  And there it is, buried deep in the story, the unsaid, the unacknowledged elephant in the room.

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