Sentences with phrase «teaching high school biology»

Mkumpha, 31, was teaching high school biology when he accepted the opportunity to serve as his country's sole conservationist in 2010.

I used to teach high school biology, but now I'm a private science tutor because I hated how much the administration focused on test scores and test - taking skills over fostering love of science and learning.

Students who want to teach high school biology would earn a degree in biology, but with the intention of earning a teaching certificate upon graduation.

She went on to obtain a teaching credential and taught high school biology and French for six years before attending Palmer College of Chiropractic.

Cindy Huff holds a BA in Biology from Xavier University, and taught high school biology in Cincinnati, OH.

Prior to his career as a veterinarian, Dr. Waterhouse taught high school biology and chemistry.

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You don't have to go very far down that road before you start thinking about creation science or scientific creationism, or get involved in school board squabbles about whether Genesis should be taught alongside of evolution in high school biology courses.

The 1925 «Monkey» trial of John Scopes, a high school biology teacher who taught evolution, drove fundamentalists underground, some say.

Even though I attended a public high school, where I took two biology courses, my teachers essentially skipped the first few chapters of our science textbook and declared them «too controversial» to teach.

Even the courts have now thrown out this silly belief when creationist tried to sue UCLA for not accepting xstian high school credits from biology classes where it was taught.

I teach an undergraduate biology lab as well as an online high school Oceanography course.

I completed an M.A.T. in secondary education, specializing in biology, at Winthrop University with the intent of teaching high - school science, but I decided instead to enter the University of Toledo's doctoral program in biology because the kid in me still wanted to learn how things worked.

Gardner cautions that when religious superstition should be on the wane, it is easy «to forget that thousands of high school teachers of biology, in many of our southern states, are still afraid to teach the theory of evolution for fear of losing their jobs.»

A high school biology teacher inspired him to pursue a teaching career.

Black teaches the most advanced biology class available at her high school in Kenmore, Wash..

When he learned that his high school biology teacher refused to teach evolution for religious reasons, he boycotted the class.

October 1964 Evolution and Creation «Biblical fundamentalists are once again in conflict with biologists, this time as a result of efforts by the National Science Foundation to raise the level of high school biology teaching.

As a child, Zhang moved with his family from China to Des Moines, where he worked in a gene therapy lab as a high school student; the experience taught him to think about biology from an engineering point of view.

She spends some of her time teaching marine biology to high school students at UCSC's Long Marine Lab, and she says that before Blackfish came out, «the kids were giddy to meet our dolphins.

High school biology classes teach us that the circulatory system pumps blood and the digestive system pumps food.

Miller still works in the area's school district, teaching honors biology to ninth graders and anatomy and physiology to 10th through 12th graders at Dover Area Senior High Sschool district, teaching honors biology to ninth graders and anatomy and physiology to 10th through 12th graders at Dover Area Senior High SchoolSchool.

High school biology students are taught Mendel's laws of genetic inheritance.

And Project 2061, the AAAS science literacy initiative, is working with teachers in Colorado, Maryland, Boston, and Washington, D.C., on a module that prepares middle - school students for high school biology — by teaching them chemistry.

With teaching facilities in Long Island and New York City, it brings a hands - on approach to learning about biology and genomes to classrooms and homes of children in primary schools, middle schools, and high schools.

Before receiving advanced degrees she received a California Teaching Credential from California State University Los Angeles and taught high school science and biology for six years.

Veronica Segarra, an assistant professor of biology at High Point University, shares how her graduate school experiences in teaching and outreach inspired her to pursue a career in science that combines bench work, teaching and outreach.

(Boston)-- High school biology taught us that we inherit certain traits from our parents that are pre-determined.

Back in the day, physicians looked at insulin as having just one single primary role in the body, the same role we're all taught in high school biology — the removal and storage of sugar from the blood after a meal.

As an experienced high school science teacher with degrees in biology and life sciences, Jason has been reimagining how we teach health since before he ever discovered Functional Medicine.

Michele Naber, who teaches regular and AP biology at Mission Viejo High School, in Mission Viejo, California, assigns MIT's practice problems to her students as in - class assignments and on tests.

High school biology teacher Mr. Kyriakos was the one who helped Rachel Poff find her strengths: «He taught me that I was smart.

Irene Ornovitz, who teaches biology and botany at Jonathan Dayton High School, in Springfield, New Jersey, has used a number of CIESE units, including ones on air pollution and population growth, as well as a collaborative project on human genetics.

In a 2011 issue of Science magazine (summarized without a paywall here), Penn State political scientists Michael Berkman and Eric Plutzer surveyed a nationally representative sample of public high - school biology teachers and found that only 28 percent of them consistently implement National Research Council standards for the teaching of evolution.

Geoff Ruth teaches chemistry and biology at Leadership High School in San Francisco.

Tracy Sheehan, who teaches biology and bioethics both for VHS and at Westborough High School, in Westborough, Massachusetts, says she hears from students online who would probably remain silent in class, especially when teaching bioethics.

Education Review reported that in his PhD thesis for the University of Sydney, Simon Crook — demonstrated that teaching with laptops helped NSW Year 12 students achieve better results in Higher School Certificate biology, chemistry and physics.

Prior to this position, Dat taught biology and environmental science for middle and high school students.

There, he developed his passion for marine biology and spent time teaching kindergartners the various adaptations of fish and led high school students to the Bahamas to learn about marine taxonomy and morphology.

«I tell people that you should take the tests the first time to see what you're in for, because you're not going to pass them,» said Lisa Rath, who teaches environmental science and biology at Birmingham High School in Los Angeles.

He has taught sixth and seventh grade science, high school physics, science and society, and AP biology.

Before engaging in the nonprofit sector, Dr. McDowell created and implemented an environmental science and biology program at Napa New Technology High School, infusing 1:1 technology, innovative teaching and assessment, and leveraging student voice in the classroom.

He has also coached teachers in schools across Hawai`i and taught algebra, biology, and environmental science at L.W. Higgins High School in Marrero, Louisiana, where he served as a TFA corps member.

I have been teaching high school science (chemistry, physics, and biology) for the past 20 years in Los Angeles County in classrooms filled primarily with students of color.

Ask any high school biology instructor: Teaching kids about evolution is a science.

A high school science department teaching students in grades 9 - 12 worked together for a week during the summer and monthly throughout the school year to design and implement common assessments in both physical science and biology.

After examining our students» contexts, we may find that find it appealing to pursue success on an exam that will increase students» life opportunities but is not aligned to the course they are teaching (such as a High School Exit Exam that measures mastery of some components of algebra (your course) but also components of language arts, chemistry, biology, economics, geometry, U.S. history and world history).

The Thoughtful Education Program helps a high school biology teacher revitalize her approach to teaching 9th graders about DNA.

The excerpt has a Flesch - Kincaid grade level of 12.0 (and high school biology is typically taught in ninth or tenth grade).

In the first «residency» year, you'll learn the basics of how to build relationships with students, families and colleagues; you'll apply proven strategies for establishing a positive and productive classroom culture; you'll learn teaching strategies specific to the grade levels and subject areas that you teach (e.g., high school biology); and you'll develop skills in lesson planning and assessment design.

Jacqueline came to D.C. as a Teach for America (TFA) corps member and taught biology at Dunbar Senior High School where she began her family engagement work, implementing a problem - based module for students and their families on bioethics.