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Drawing from focus groups held with 35 teacher-trainees at four universities in the Pennsylvania, they find that future science teachers often lack the knowledge, conviction, and role models needed to teach evolution with confidence.

IOW, they are idiots. Makes sense.

If they were intelligent and had knowledge they could easily explain TToE.

This is an indictment on the educational system, not TToE.

Ain't no straw man low enough...

7 posted on 03/10/2015 8:31:02 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (islam: The hands of the Chinese, the mouths of the arabs, the minds of the French.)
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To: freedumb2003

Of course they’re idiots.

Great contribution. /s

It is actually that unlike other disciplines, evolution is not taught well because it is convoluted and those teaching it aren’t very good.

When I was in grad the school the Evolutionary Biologist prof was not thought of too highly and somewhat made fun of at his seminars by other faculty by asking questions about mechanisms that he would have a hard time answering.

It is a lot too much like the ethnic studies or other disciplines in that it isn’t particularly real.


16 posted on 03/10/2015 8:44:09 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: freedumb2003

Absolutely correct. The people they spoke to were teachers, not biologists. This demonstrates one of the fundamental flaws with the way we teach teachers - often times, they simply don’t know enough about the subject to adequately address students’ questions. The field that’s worse than biology is math. How many people do you know that hate/can’t do/don’t understand/fear even basic math? It’s because their teachers had the same problem when they went to school. I grew up in a small college town and was lucky enough to have high school math teachers with Masters and PhDs - not in education - in math. I learned math from people that understood and liked their subject, and it gave me the foundation to study science - specifically, biology.


80 posted on 03/10/2015 11:27:21 PM PDT by stormer
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To: freedumb2003

So says the descendant of early slime molds and monkeys.


102 posted on 03/11/2015 8:45:48 AM PDT by RoadGumby (This is not where I belong, Take this world and give me Jesus.)
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