Web Sites
Click on the sites above to read or sign up
for a discussion e-list about men teachers open to both men and women.
This is NEA's statement about the shortage of
male teachers and ideas for recruiting.
Resources for dealing with the teacher
shortage.
NEA Today cover story about the shortage of
male teachers.
This site has information about teaching and
finding teachers.
This organization is a teacher training
program for newly graduating students.
This program is for helping military
personnel transition out of the military into teaching careers.
A program designed to recruit and train
underrepresented groups to teaching.
Click on the site above to see a unique
teacher training program to recruit and train 200 black men to be
elementary school teachers.
An alternative teacher certification program
in the D.C. area.
This organization has been around for years
doing great work in the San Francisco Bay Area.
An alternative way to get teacher
certification.
Find your state's alternative certifcation
program.
A government website in New Zealand focusing
on recruiting more men to be teachers.
This is a male kindergarten teacher's website
with information about men teaching and is used for his classroom.
U.S. governments Bureau of Labor Statistics
job description of preschool and school teachers.
U.S. governments Bureau of Labor Statistics
job description of a child
Men Teacher Websites
Check out the work of men in Canada. Garry
Jones coordinates this work. They host an annual conference with an
emphasis about boys.
See the great work that Kenny Spence and
Colin Chisholm have been doing in the United Kingdom. They've held a
conference over the years and have brought together some great material.
If you have
a website about men teaching please send us a message and we'll post a
link.
Journals
The entire issue of the November 2002 issue
of NAEYC Young Children was devoted to men and children. See
some of the articles from the jounral.
Web Articles
UK study shows 8 in 10 parents want males
working in child care.
A man who graduated university and is now
teaching writes about the issues facing men teachers.
GlobeMail newspaper article about a man
teaching in a British school.
CNN report online about shortage and men
teachers.
Article about education minister in the
United Kingdom's attempt to increase the number of men teachers in
primary grades.
A good article about the history of men
teachers and some of the issues of men teaching. He also includes a
study of college students about their attitudes about men teaching
children. Has citations at the end of the article.
A good research article about men teaching in
Australia. List questions and answers to survey questions. Has
citations at the end of the article.
Two NPR interviews about men teaching. The first is from Talk of the Nation.
And the second is from
Weekend Edition.
A father's response to the movie Daddy Day
Care.
Read an interesting
article by a man in Canada who finished school and has
researched the issue of men in child care.
Is the elementary teacher a Big Bad Wolf or a
Superhero? A
great article from a few years back about men teaching.
Financial Aid Sources
This is a website for information for
teachers to have their loans reduced by working in underserved
communities.
This is National Education Association's
website with a list of financial aid sources. There are some
specifically for black men.
Pell Grant information from the Federal
Government.
Recruits high-caliber college graduates to
teach preschoolers in low income communities
Grants for Minority Students at University of
Louisville, KY.
Offering scholarships to men teachers is
controversial.
Resources about and for men
Menstuff
This is website that provides
lots of information about men (e.g. men's health, fathering, etc.).
This is website provides links
and contacts about fathers and families.
Television reports
Two stories on television: Male mentors and daddy day care.
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Books & Articles
Cunningham, Bruce. Men
in Child Care. Child
Care Information Exchange Part 1 & 2. Sept/Oct 1998,
January/February 1999.
King, James R.
Uncommon Caring: Learning from men who teach young children. New York:
Teachers College Press. 1998.
Levine, James A. et.
al. Getting Men Involved: Strategies for Early Childhood Programs. New
York: Scholastic Press, 1993.
Nelson, Bryan G. and
Sheppard, Bruce, editors. Men in Child Care and Education: A Handbook
for Administrators and Educators. MenTeach, P.O. Box 6778,
Minneapolis, MN 55406-0778, 1992.
Bryan
Nelson interviewed
Sargent, Paul. Real
Men or Real Teachers: Contradictions in the Lives of Men Elementary
School Teachers. Harriman, TN: Men’s Studies Press, 2001
Paul Sargent quoted
Men in the Lives of
Children - special edition, Young Children, NAEYC, Washington, DC
(November 2002)
Wong, Manuel Kichi, The
Last Nine Months: Putting on My Last Diaper in Family Child
Care, (2003).
Resolutions about men teachers
Here are some resolutions that you can
present to your local AEYC or organization about the importance of men
teachers in children's lives.
Newspaper and Web Articles
Article from Milwaukee about how few men
teach in Kindergarten.
Article about boys' and girls' attitude about
men teaching.
A story about a former soldier now teaching.
Read about Dr. Steve Weber, a special needs
teacher deciding to continue to teach in a classroom.
A former physicist writes about his work as a
Family Child Care provider.
Article about teachers in Virginia.
Article about the increase in women attending
college.
Article in the Christian Science Monitor
about how few men there are in teaching.
Columnist Ellen Goodman writes about Daddy
Daycare and more men teaching:
June 15, 2003 "Mr. Mom to Daddy Day Care."
A national syndicated column about the role
male teachers play in dealing with bullying (Select the 10-7-03 and
12-11-03 columns from popup menu).
Christian Science Monitor article about the
lack of men teaching.
An article about a man teaching in Florida
and and article about the low numbers of male teachers.
A principal writes about male teachers in
Australia.
New research about the challenges men face
teaching in England.
New research about the challenges men face
teaching in England.
A male teacher talks about listening to women
talk and the challenges he faces.
Several articles about men teachers in
Detroit Free press.
A discussion from a
man who feels he has been discriminated against in hiring.
Sacramento Bee article
about men and gender stereotypes.
Sacramento Bee article
about men and gender stereotypes
Newspaper story about men teachers in
Milwaukee and Wisconsin.
Newspaper story talking about the issues men
face in teaching.
Newspaper story about a male teacher,
unfortunately it perpetuates some of the myths and destortions about
the profession.
Newspaper story giving details about a man
teaching in Massachusetts.
A column discussing some court cases
involving adult teachers with their students and the different
standards applied towards men versus women.
A online discussion about men not being hired
as elementary school teachers.
Curriculum & reports about gender equity
The achievement of gender equality is still
to a large extent considered a women’s issue. Attention to the critical
role men and boys can play in the achievement of gender equality is
relatively recent within the United Nations.
A curriculum for high school students dealing
with how sexism affects women. Unfortunately, it doesn't really cover
the challenges facing men.
A college course offered for one credit about
Male Involvement in Early Childhood.
The National Alliance for Partnerships in
Equity, Inc. (NAPE) is a consortium of state agencies whose mission
includes promoting key equity issues, particularly gender equity, in
education and workforce development.
Magazine and newspapers (not free)
Article in TIME magazine about men in various
professions underrepresented by men: Teaching; child care; nursing, etc.
Article in the LATimes about men teaching at
the UCLA child care program.
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