Oct 29/14 Student Chosen Discussion

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Please check out this short article and consider the questions provided below.

How to Diversify Teaching

Introduction

Finding a male teacher in an American classroom is hard.

Finding a black male teacher is even harder. 

The teaching profession is dominated by women:
Three-quarters of all teachers in kindergarten through high school are female, and in elementary and middle schools,
 women account for more than 80 percent of the educators.

What’s more, more than 80 percent of America’s teachers are white,
even though minority students are expected to outnumber white students in public schools for the first time this year.

QUESTIONS

Do you think that men and women teach differently?
Do you think that boys and girls learn differently?
How can the teaching profession become more diverse in terms of gender and race or ethnicity?
In your country, What is the ratio of men to women in the classroom?
Do you think this is discrimination?
Why do you think more men are not interested in teaching early grades?