You walk into a school in a rural town in southern Missouri and take a look down the hallways. All the students are at their lockers or heading to class. If you take a look into a few classrooms you will see female teachers preparing for the day’s lesson. Now take a look in the office and you will see a male principle enforcing the rules and distributing discipline. This phenomenon is all too common throughout most schools in Missouri. A common faux-pas is that teaching is for females, while administrative positions are for males. It is time for females to break that glass ceiling and secure those coveted administrative positions and for men to end the stigma that clings to the male teaching profession.
According to a study by the National …show more content…
They are promoted more quickly into senior positions over females who have put in more years, an effect that has been coined the ‘glass escalator’ by University of Texas professor Christine Williams. Williams feels the most beneficial way to get more men into the classroom is to upgrade the conditions and pay of the job, rather than the position. This would also bring about a positive impact for women as well (Rich). However if a male is never promoted up, he may wind up experiencing loneliness due to isolation from the lack of male co-workers …show more content…
The program was established at Clemson University in South Carolina. MISTER is not specifically targeting men with their program. They are interested in overall diversity in teaching. According to the MISTER program, “The assumption seem to be that teachers from meager circumstances are more effective at reaching youth who experience similar economic conditions” (Johnson). Troops-to-Teachers (TTT) is a program that attempts to enlist highly qualified teacher for schools that enroll a large quantity of at risk students or low income communities. One big difference between TTT and the other programs is that they are supporting the transition of military personnel to civilian life as teachers. According to the TTT, approximately 88 percent of active duty army personnel are men, which gives them “an accessible and appropriate pool from which to recruit male teacher candidates”
According to a study by the National …show more content…
They are promoted more quickly into senior positions over females who have put in more years, an effect that has been coined the ‘glass escalator’ by University of Texas professor Christine Williams. Williams feels the most beneficial way to get more men into the classroom is to upgrade the conditions and pay of the job, rather than the position. This would also bring about a positive impact for women as well (Rich). However if a male is never promoted up, he may wind up experiencing loneliness due to isolation from the lack of male co-workers …show more content…
The program was established at Clemson University in South Carolina. MISTER is not specifically targeting men with their program. They are interested in overall diversity in teaching. According to the MISTER program, “The assumption seem to be that teachers from meager circumstances are more effective at reaching youth who experience similar economic conditions” (Johnson). Troops-to-Teachers (TTT) is a program that attempts to enlist highly qualified teacher for schools that enroll a large quantity of at risk students or low income communities. One big difference between TTT and the other programs is that they are supporting the transition of military personnel to civilian life as teachers. According to the TTT, approximately 88 percent of active duty army personnel are men, which gives them “an accessible and appropriate pool from which to recruit male teacher candidates”