Poll coming up..... Reason for the poll.... Just wanna know the demographics and to know if the male/female ratio is not as heavily female skewed in secondary as they make it seem...
Your results here will be reflective of the membership here...which may or may not be reflective of the gender distribution in schools as a whole.
We now have 3 males and 27 females as teachers. Our principal is female. Plus our two secretaries and two of our custodians are female. We do have 1 male custodian. All of our lunchroom workers are female.
My elementary school has over 40 classroom teachers and then specials teachers and special ed teachers. There are 2 male specials teachers, 1 male classroom teacher, and 1 male special ed teacher. We have 2 paras also who are male. Our principal and 3 vice principals are male also, but that will be changing soon. We have 2 female custodians, but at least 4 who are male.
The M/F ratio is pretty accurate for elementary. For secondary, looks like more females happen to be posters here. Funny how people have told me, "it's good that you're a guy. You might find it easier to find a teaching job! And math, too!"
People say that in elementary as well, but who gets hired has VERY LITTLE to do with gender. There is a bit of a gender gap in higher education. The percentage of female college grads has been on the rise for the past few decades and is higher than the percentage of males. ( http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=72 ). In my education graduate program, women outnumbered men. On our hiring committee, we see many many more female candidates than men....it seems to me, it's a matter of the 'pool ratio'...there are simply more women in education than men. And while some schools may be hoping to hire male candidates (role models for boys, diversity, etc), gender generally isn't a deciding point for most schools.
My school has over a thousand students. One of the vice principals each year is still going through their certification program. In order to get principal certification here, candidates work as a vice principal for a year. So 2 are fully certified and 1 is in training.
I love how you have a principal in training for a year that has to work side by side with another vice principal. We have 900 students one principal and 1 vice principal(elementary). Our high schools have started talking about 1 principal and 1/2 vice principal, where the VP shares 2 schools..we seem to be going in the opposite direction
No idea what the demographics for my school are... I think we're getting about 15 new teachers, so too hard to hazard a guess right now.
24 women 1 man (ME!) Our principal and assistant principal are women. Our custodians are men, though, so I don't get a bathroom to myself! Haha!
At my school (which is a middle school grades 6-8), we have: 6th grade: 8 teachers; 5 females (1 math, 2 ELA, 2 Science), 3 males (2 Social Studies, 1 math) 7th grade: 10 teachers; 6 females (2 ELA, 1 Social Studies 1 Social Studies/Science, 1 Math, 1 Math/Science), 4 males (2 Science, 1 Social Studies, 1 Math) 8th grade: 9 teachers; 5 females (1 Math/Science, 2 Science, 2 ELA), 4 males (2 Social Studies, 2 Math) Other (EC/specials): 12 teachers: 7 females (4 EC, 3 Specials), 5 males (all specials) So out of 39 teachers, 16 are men and 23 are women.
I don't know about the new school I'll be based out of, but in my previous school, out of 19 teachers (it's a very small high school) there are 7 men, 12 female. Our principal and counselor are male and our custodial staff was split with 2 men/2 women.
We have two male teachers in each grade (6-8) and 6 female teachers in each grade. There are three male teachers in the exploratory classes and three females, and there are one of each in gym with a new one coming on board (don't know the gender yet). Our P is female and the VP is male, office people are all female as is guidance. So, the females outnumber the males by quite a bit at our school.
I went to an all-female elementary school. The only man I ever saw was the gym teacher. I didn't consider him a real teacher because he was in the gym, which wasn't even connected to the school, and he was only there a couple of days a week. When I was in 5th grade, they hired a male 6th grade teacher. Our early childhood center is 100% female. The two elementary schools have one male teacher each, a music and a PE. I think both have a male custodian. I'm at middle school. We're probably around 60/40 female dominated. Two male administrators. The high school is probably closer to 50/50, but I'd say they are still likely slightly female-dominated. They have three male administrators. We're heavily female with our bus drivers, too.
I'm starting at a new school this year. I don't know anyone. But in the past I've worked mostly with female collegues. I've noticed there does not seem to be many males in elementary school. I remember my 6th to 12th grade experience of teachers having equal gender distribution of teachers. In elementary I had primarily female teachers. I had a male teacher in fourth grade. Also we walked to read so my reading teacher was always changing. The coach was male. I remember three male teachers.
I couldn't answer the poll, because I don't fit into one of the categories (I will be teaching grade 6 and 7 in a combined class and my school is a K-8 school). At my former school, we had 3 male teachers on staff (about 40 teachers total)--one taught a grade 3/4 combined class, one taught Phys. Ed and English and Math to grade 7 and 8, the third taught English to grade 7 and 8. At the school I will be at in September, we'll have 2 male teachers on staff, 1 teaching kindergarten and the other teaching Phys. Ed.
