Teachers Pick Up Tips For Enhancing Topic of Evolution in Class

Forum helps educators deal with questions that perplex many students.

Linesville, Pa.

Stacey Falk is a high school biology teacher who revels in covering the theory of evolution in class. She is also a Roman Catholic who attends church every week.

To some of her students, that makes her a curiosity.

It’s not unusual for them to ask whether scientific and religious convictions are compatible. Ms. Falk, like many people of science, and of faith, believes they are. She recently attended a teachers’ workshop that examined that question and covered scientific content and instructional strategies aimed at helping her and other science teachers explain the theory of evolution more...