Promoting Evolution Education in the United States

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University of Miami

Sunday, June 9, 2019
9:00am-9:30am

Are teachers “allowed” to teach evolution in their classrooms? How about creationism or intelligent design? The National Science Teachers Association states, “Evolution should be emphasized in K–12 science education. If evolution is not taught, students will not achieve the level of scientific literacy needed to be well-informed citizens.” The Teacher Institute for Evolutionary science (TIES) is a very successful network of classroom teachers helping middle school science teachers promote evolution education with high-quality evolution resources. Our mission focuses on the idea that good teachers can teach anything if they have the content and resources to do so.

Bertha Vazquez

Bertha Vazquez has been teaching science for 28 years. She is the winner of the 2017 National Association of Biology Teachers Evolution Education Award and is currently a finalist for Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. She is also the director of the Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science (TIES), a project of the Center for Inquiry. Since its inception in April of 2015, TIES has presented over 130 professional development opportunities for middle school science teachers in 48 US States, providing teachers with free resources to teach their state evolution standards effectively in their classrooms.

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