Sentences with phrase «male primary school teachers»

Despite the need for both male and female teachers, male primary school teachers could be extinct by 2067.

Although the number of male primary school teachers in Australia is not declining — the number of full time male primary teachers in Australia has remained fairly constant over the last 25 years — the number of female primary teachers has increased dramatically, causing a proportional decline of men.

Talented male primary school teachers are being devalued because they get pigeon - holed into running sports classes or looking after naughty kids, a new book has claimed.

In some countries though the representation of male primary school teachers is close to, or above, 40 per cent — that includes China, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

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Why are there still so few men within Early Years in primary schools: views from male trainee teachers and male leaders?

A quarter (25 %) of primary school teachers and 8 % of teaching assistants are male, according to latest figures [3].

New figures out today reveal that one in four primary schools in England still has no male registered teacher, and in total just 12 % of primary school teachers are male.

In education he suggests more needs to be done to plug the massive shortage of male teachers at primary school level.

He was speaking after Aishah Azmi, a Muslim primary school teacher suspended for refusing to take off the full veil in front of male teachers, lost her case arguing that the move amounted to discrimination.

Dr McGrath said the rapid rate of decline in male teacher numbers occurred in both primary and secondary government schools over the past 50 years, and that this trend was generally echoed in non-government independent schools and Catholic secondary schools.

He said in the case of Catholic primary schools, the trend was slightly different, with a rapid rise in male primary teacher numbers prior to 1989, but numbers falling from then onwards, causing the overall percentage of male teachers to actually increase slightly over time as a direct result.

Although the gender mix in primary schools has been fairly stable (with 80 % of teachers being female), the percentage of male teachers in secondary schools has declined from a majority (55 %) in 1981 to a minority (42 %) currently.

Recommendations included the reduction of primary school class sizes and the recruitment of more male teachers.

In Australian Catholic primary and high schools the representation of male teachers actually rose briefly to a peak in around the 1980s and then fell.

JE: One of the research questions that your study addresses is: Does the representation of male teachers in Australia differ by education level (primary, secondary — obviously this is in a school context) or by sector (government, Catholic and independent) over time?

When she recorded the experiences and opinions of male primary teachers, one Asian infant school deputy head told her that he was given a place on a PGCE teacher course just because he was a man, without a formal interview.

Recent research tells us that primary school students and their parents want more male teachers.

A Y - chromosome makes male teachers instantly visible in a primary schools.

Lin Wei, 27, one of a handful of male sixthgrade teachers at a primary school here, has made a habit of telling stories about warlords who threw witches into rivers and soldiers who outsmarted Japanese troops.