Black and MEG teachers
05-April-2005
permalink comments (2) forum (2) email thisRecruitment of black and minority ethnic group teachers - the answer to the problem of underachieving black boys.
I've been looking into the statistics around numbers of black teachers and find a scarcity of data. My suspicion is that this might be a reflection on the small numbers of teachers in the profession, but can anyone else throw any light on this? I'm interested in this theme because I wonder how it relates to the so-called under-achievement of black boys in mainstream education. There seems to be a gradual drop in achievement from point of entry to secondary school even though they may enter school brighter than average.
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1 lack of black teachers
I agree that there is a lack of black role models in the classroom I see it in all the schools I teach in.
There is alot written about this in the TES (Times Educational Supplement) and there are also distinctions made between achievement of Black African and Black Carribean boys. But there are schools where achievement is rising especially where the school employs mentors who the boys can relate to and who they may often respect more than the teachers. There is also evidence that where parents are meaningfully engaged in the learning of their sons i.e collaboration - parent - young person - teacher progress is made - St Martin in the Fields school in Brixton is working on this (girls school though !)I know there is a recruitment drive to attract more people from ethnic minorities into London schools. As bad I find the lack of any male role models let alone black role models in primary schools yet nine times out of ten the head of a primary school is male !!
Anthony Fitzgerald, 05-April-2005 19:03:11
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2 lack of black teachers
Perhaps the lack of black teachers in schools could be dependent on demographics. In Hackney for instance where my children go to school there are black teachers in primary and secondary roles, but I would imagine in Cheam or Winchelsea it would be somewhat different, a reflection on the local population. I also wonder if the scarcity of data is down to a reluctance of filling in the diversity monitoring forms? BHBeverley Hills, 01-September-2005 10:28:06
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