Boys need more male teachers

According to Jamaica Observer (General News), AS Jamaica searches for answers to the persistent under-performance of boys in school, chairman of the Education Transformation Oversight Committee (ETOC) Dr Adrian Stokes is calling for a closer look at the gender balance among the country’s teachers, arguing that more men must be encouraged to enter the profession. His call comes as the education ministry continues to find ways to develop preliminary measures to improve how boys learn. Speaking during an ETOC quarterly press conference on Thursday, Stokes said the country needed to examine how it could attract more men to teaching. “We may have to look at how much room we have to provide incentives for males to enter the teaching profession. There’s a plethora of female teachers. Sometimes when I go into a room for a meeting with anything to do with education it’s a preponderance of females. We need to have a better balance in terms of