Sentence examples for teaching alternatives from inspiring English sources

The vote also emboldened some teachers who had been quietly teaching alternatives to evolution.

But they also discourage many high schools from teaching alternatives that promote more depth and that enable students to bring more perspectives and approaches to college classrooms.

A somewhat more complicated issue arose last year at Ohio State University, where Bryan Leonard, a high school science teacher working toward a doctorate in education, was preparing to defend his dissertation on the pedagogical usefulness of teaching alternatives to the theory of evolution.

Some of the younger Patrick Henry teams make a point of taking explicitly Christian positions, such as arguing for teaching alternatives to evolution, but du Mée and Ross tend to be more subtle; they focus, instead, on issues like merit pay for teachers.

Based on our pool of respondents, only a single instructor indicated a requirement for teaching alternatives to evolution in their class.

Instructors who teach creationism in evolution classes may be less likely to either take the survey or report teaching alternatives to evolution even on a survey where responses were anonymous.

What's wrong with teaching alternative theories in our schools?

The workshops were designed to instigate behavioural change by teaching alternative communication patterns and coping strategies through the principles of motivational interviewing.

Several states (e.g., Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Kansas; Matzke 2016) have passed what are referred to as 'stealth creationist' legislation that promotes teaching alternative concepts, such as Intelligent Design, alongside evolution (Scott and Matzke 2007; Matzke 2016) or promotes teaching nonscientific 'holes' in well-established scientific principles.

Alex Kotlowitz's insightful piece (May 4) on the cycles of violence that plague many communities makes the points that in matters of health, prevention is more effective than punishment, and that ending any addiction requires us to teach alternatives.

Two states, Louisiana and Tennessee, now allow public schools to teach "alternatives" to evolution.